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WiC 486 (Mar 13, 2020)

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That’s the spirit

China Consumer Tsingtao jumps on the whisky bandwagon

At a time when every state in the US now boasts a distillery – including Hawaii – and countries like India and Australia are making their own ...

Tesla’s Chinese journey

Auto Industry, Talking Point Musk’s battery partnership with CATL signals his long term vision for…

When Donald Trump was fanning Washington’s trade war with Beijing in 2018 and beseeching American manufacturers to bring their operations back onto ...

Over a barrel

Energy & Resources As the Saudis slash the price of oil, what’s the impact…

The politics of the oil market turned even more predatory than normal when Saudi Arabia fired the first shots in a seismic price war last weekend. The ...

No slacking off

Internet & Tech Productivity apps like Ding Ding get virus boost

Alibaba is accustomed to spectacular growth stories and it is enjoying another one with the stellar rise of its office software app Ding Ding this ...

Unwelcome comments

Society Netizens see red at China green card rules

Should the Ministry of Justice have sensed that proposals last month to change the residency rules for foreign nationals would stir up such a ...

Launching a new model

Space Programme Geely announces a new business line in low-orbit satellites

In 1978 NASA scientist Donald J Kessler published a paper on the potential for satellite collisions. The earth’s orbit, he posited, might eventually ...

Seize the moment

Healthcare Covid-19 test kit maker Sansure eyes IPO

From “containment” to “mitigation” – the US has lately shifted its rhetoric on the nature of its fight against the novel coronavirus, as some ...

Fanning controversy

Entertainment How the protests of fans over an online novel backfired on…

Before Liu Bang established the Han Dynasty, his most trusted adviser and friend was Xiao He (257 to 193 BC). Xiao subsequently came across a young man ...

Filling the gap

Banking & Finance China’s first ‘private sector petrol station’ IPO raises questions

We all know the story of David and Goliath (though in Malcolm Gladwell’s version David was always the likelier victor). Over in China, Hunan Heshun ...

Change of diet

Agriculture Confusion as to what wildlife can no longer be eaten after…

What is ‘wildlife’ and should people be allowed to eat it? Those are two of the questions for the policymakers charged with preventing outbreaks of ...

Under the mask

Healthcare China ups propaganda effort amid outbreak

When 20 year-old Huang Zhibo entered the talent show All For One in 2018, his chosen catchphrase was “to become a different version of ...

Car trouble

Sino-File “The outbreak is a real test of a company’s core competency…

He Xiaopeng, XPENG Motors chairman, tells the Financial Times that 2021 will be the year electric cars go mainstream and that he’s “cautiously ...

One page at a time

And Finally Booksellers try new tactics in battle to survive Covid-19

Doctor Fu never expected to find fame simply by reading a book. But a snapshot of him holding Francis Fukuyama’s The Origins of Political ...

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