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WiC 497 (May 29, 2020)

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Could tense Sino-US relations be a blessing in disguise for the…

“You will only begin to earn their respect after you strike the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange.” This is one of the quotes from ...

Getting back to growth

Economy The economic plan for 2020: no GDP target, and a bigger…

The coronavirus is shaking up decades of certainties in the Chinese economy. GDP shrank for the first time in decades in the first three months of this ...

China and the World Washington review confirms ‘great power’ clash

Donald Trump is so active on Twitter that it sometimes seems he is setting American policy on the fly, including the outlines of the crucially ...

Internet & Tech Two tech investments counter decoupling story

At the beginning of the 1980s, a group of British teenagers was asked whether they expected a third world war. Half said they were anticipating nuclear ...

Bikers fear fines

China Consumer New scooter safety rules see helmet prices surge

Riding round the streets of Beijing, you could, until recently, see why the price of crash helmets was so low. The demand was not there: the vast ...

Born in the USA

Media TikTok poaches Disney’s streaming boss

Content posted on TikTok, the smash-hit short-video platform from China, doesn’t last more than 15 seconds. Kevin Mayer, who is taking over as its ...

Energy & Resources Debt-laden Tianqi to sell Aussie lithium mine?

Lithium was once better known as a mood stabiliser, particularly for people suffering from bipolar disorder. It’s only in the last decade that it has ...

Healthcare Drugmaker Hengrui’s hospital kickbacks in the spotlight

In the romcom Love & Other Drugs, Jake Gyllenhaal, who plays a roguish sales rep, goes to great lengths to hawk a treatment for depression ...

Straight to streaming

Entertainment Arthouse films bypass shuttered cinemas and distribute online

Mother-daughter ties are often complicated. As Kira Birditt from the University of Michigan puts it, they can be “the closest and most irritating” ...

Spilling the beans

Entertainment Celebrity’s personal information leaked

Wang Yuechi, known by his stage name Chi Zi, first came to fame through Roast Convention, China’s closest equivalent to the US programme ...

Galloping sales

Society Xinjiang horse race gets the livestreaming treatment

In 1975 the Hong Kong Jockey Club was appointed by the government as operator of the then British colony’s first lottery. Winning the ‘6 out of ...

Couture under Covid

Sino-File “Because of the pandemic people spend less on apparel, on fashion…

Alibaba’s chief executive Daniel Zhang comments on the site’s fall in sales of clothing, accessories and home furnishings in the first quarter. By ...

The crying game

And Finally Jilted girlfriend gets revenge with onion dump

The world of Chinese e-commerce is truly impressive. Regardless of where you are, or what you want to buy, you can normally find a way to put in an ...