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WiC 496 (May 22, 2020)

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Licence to kill

Internet & Tech, Talking Point A last stand for Huawei amid an escalating Sino-US tech war?

After a drawn-out trade war, the rise of a tech firm from the world’s second largest economy posed a new threat to American leadership in core ...

Homeward bound

Cross Strait Taiwan’s firms turn back from mainland China

How do you out-muscle two 700-pound gorillas? That’s the question that Morris Chang, the founder of TSMC, posed in 2012. At the time, he was ...

Stirring the pot

M&A Tencent tops up Canadian coffee firm in China

The Milky Way is home to as many as 400 billion stars. And yet it is still growing, with new stars emerging faster than the speed of sound. Tencent’s ...

A bitter harvest

China and the World Beijing slaps tariffs on Australia barley, after row over Covid-19 inquiry

Was it really a coincidence? That was the question about the timing of China’s Monday announcement that it was slapping tariffs on Australian barley ...

Not so fast

Healthcare Restraints on China’s medical equipment boom

Shenzhen-based Aibaoda Technology used to sell earphones, microphones and loudspeakers. Tus Data Asset developed blockchain technology and electronic ...

Hunger games

Internet & Tech, Logistics SF Express takes on Meituan and Ele.me

The delivery business isn’t always very dependable. In New York, 90,000 packages are stolen or disappear without explanation every day, the New York ...

Signs of a pickup

Auto Industry China’s carmakers hope the worst is over after an awful quarter

In the US they are known as ‘cowboy Cadillacs’. In China they’re called pikas. Owning a pickup is just about as American as apple pie, but in ...

Bringing home the bacon

Agriculture, Property Why real estate giant Vanke is having a go at pig…

Pork is central to the Chinese diet. But despite consuming half the world’s pig meat, Chinese domestic supply is haphazard, much of it coming from ...

Wave goodbye

China Consumer Korea’s Innisfree scales down China operation

Six years ago when eagle-eyed fans in China spotted that actress Jun Ji-hyun’s character in the popular Korean drama My Love Who Came From The ...

A failed formula

China Consumer China’s dairy industry hit by another scandal

In 2008, just ahead of the Beijing Olympics, news began to break of Chinese babies becoming sick because of adulterated milk formula. The infant ...

It all ads up

Entertainment Product placement taken to new heights in reality TV show’s latest…

Chinese reality TV often seems to lead to traumatic moments – last year, a 35 year-old actor, for instance, died from a heart attack during filming ...

What’s in a name?

World of Weibo What’s in a name?

American singer Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus) took his mother’s maiden name when he was 13. Actress Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine ...

Mike sends a message

Sino-File “The American people, and I hope people all across the world,…

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo tells Breitbart News that China was a risk to “the United States and all free nations”, referencing how Beijing ...

The bear necessities

And Finally How the pandemic is making life difficult for pandas overseas

When two giant pandas from China flew into Toronto airport in 2013, their arrival was deemed important enough to merit a personal welcome from then ...

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