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WiC 507 (Aug 21, 2020)

Bad blood brothers

Internet & Tech, Talking Point With TikTok in trouble, Tencent plots merger to thwart Bytedance

Tencent has never hidden its ambitions to become one of the world’s biggest entertainment platforms. It has a strong claim to having already achieved ...

Internet & Tech Milestone as Xiaomi enters the Hang Seng Index

One of the best-known stories in the classic Chinese novel The Romance of the Three Kingdoms tells of how the warlord Liu Bei persuaded the ...

Portion control

Environment China’s leader calls for more efforts to curb food waste

Chuiyan Fried Beef, a restaurant chain in Changsha, has a radical approach to recommending its dishes to diners. Customers are first asked to weigh ...

In Tesla’s wake

Auto Industry Chinese electric car firms are raising cash in US

Tesla’s world-beating stock market valuation has attracted plenty of headlines. Its electric vehicle (EV) sales in China have helped to power its ...

Exercise with care

Cross Strait Military drills take centre-stage in latest round of Sino-US tensions

To nobody’s great surprise the six-month review of January’s trade agreement between Washington and Beijing has been postponed. “I don’t want ...

Telecoms More dire news for China’s 5G leader from the US

One of the features of more than two years of increasing hostility towards Huawei in Washington is how the company has steered ahead, apparently ...

China Consumer TV show helps local cosmetics firm to drive sales

Since its premiere in mid-June, Sisters Who Make Waves, a reality show about women over 30 competing for a spot in an all-female pop group, ...

Who’s Hu Boss of one of China’s best known vaccine makers

The coronavirus pandemic has minted a number of billionaires. Take US biotech company Moderna. A front-runner in the race to develop a Covid-19 ...

Not a good look

China Consumer Balenciaga faces bag backlash

Foreign luxury brands have had their share of marketing flops in China. Amongst the most memorable was a promotional video campaign by Italian fashion ...

The 463 day wait is over

Entertainment Huayi Brothers blockbuster finally hits screen after mammoth delay

It took 178 days for Chinese cinemas to reopen once the pandemic had hit. But for the embattled studio Huayi Brothers there was a delay of more than a ...

Sino-File “This could have serious ramifications for the [wine] industry”

Bruce Tyrell, managing director of Tyrell Wines, tells the Financial Times that potential Chinese tariffs on Australian wines are worrying because ...

Education or bust

And Finally How Zhen’an county overspent on a school

Only three months ago Xinhua was praising Zhen’an county in Shaanxi province for “pushing forward with infrastructure construction in an effort to ...