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WiC 482 (Feb 14, 2020)

Dealing with disaster

Economy, Talking Point How is China coping with the coronavirus outbreak?

The SARS outbreak nearly two decades ago wasn’t simply a public health crisis. For the Communist Party of China (CPC) the epidemic presented a severe ...

Supply runs dry

Economy As China catches pneumonia, the world coughs

Much has been said about ‘Made in China’ goods in recent years but the world is now finding out what happens when the world’s biggest factories ...

A collective effort

Internet & Tech Alibaba wins admirers for its efforts to fight the virus outbreak

The devastating earthquake that struck Sichuan in 2008 changed attitudes towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) in China. The disaster claimed ...

Healthcare Media celebrates new hospitals, netizens less so

Watching a hospital being built – however rapidly – wouldn’t generally be seen as a spectator sport in normal situations. But when you are ...

Internet & Tech Wuhan’s top tech firms downplay virus impact

Xi Jinping has visited Wuhan twice since taking over as China’s paramount leader. One of his stopovers on both trips was a vast district in the city ...

Capital injection

Banking & Finance Which healthcare stocks are benefiting from the coronavirus crisis?

Perhaps no single drug is more associated with its manufacturer’s success than Bayer’s Aspirin. Developed by German chemist Felix Hoffmann to ...

China and the World Contagion coverage unearths old European stereotypes

They have yet to cause complete panic but the newspaper headlines that are following the coronavirus from one country to the next have stoked plenty of ...

China Consumer Local star Luckin sees stock fall a third in days

The best recipes for stock bubbles need a fanciful growth story. Take the South Sea Company in the eighteenth century, whose shares inflated over 10 ...

Sometimes the house loses

China Tourist, GBA Macau imposes half-month casino ban amid coronavirus outbreak

Such was the clamour to get into the Sands Macao on opening night in May 2004 that many of the casino’s doors were ripped off their hinges. The ...

China and the World An unforeseen outcome from the Wuhan virus: better relations with Japan

With deaths from the coronavirus approaching 1,500, any talk of silver linings from the crisis would be inappropriate. But one of the unexpected ...

Commercial break

Entertainment Wuhan virus could see wave of failures among struggling film studios

When production studio Huanxi Media found out in late January, ahead of the Chinese New Year, that the release of the family-friendly blockbuster ...

Winning the battle

Sino-File “State capacity and a collective culture are the two uniquely strong…

Shanghai-based venture capitalist Eric Li tells Lunch with the FT last weekend that the Wuhan coronavirus is the “medical equivalent of a natural ...

Lots of homework

And Finally Virus crisis brings surge in stay-at-home study

In Mandarin, there is a mix of variations for the word “busy”. Slight subtleties in the ‘changing’ radical can come to mean: “hurried”, ...