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WiC 511 (Sep 18, 2020)
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Playing chicken
China Consumer, Talking Point Will the owner of KFC in China be caught in the…

When the Chinese embassy in Belgrade was hit by US bombers in May 1999, anti-American protests quickly erupted across China. Thousands took to the ...

The man from the agency
Corporate Q&A Ad industry titan discusses China’s Covid rebound and e-commerce trends

The Chinese market has been on the radar of Sir Martin Sorrell for decades. The founder of advertising giant WPP was a frequent visitor as he built ...

The delivery economy
Economy Convenience has a social cost for China’s army of meal delivery…

When you order takeaway on either of China’s two main food delivery apps, a small icon of a motorcycle rider appears on a moving map so you can track ...

A golden thank you
Internet & Tech Bytedance gets a precious payments licence from China’s central bank

The clock is ticking down to the September 20 deadline from Washington to force the sale of TikTok’s American business. On Monday TikTok’s parent ...

High water mark
Chinese Character Nongfu Spring’s boss became China’s richest man, albeit for 30 minutes

One of the most touted business principles from Wahaha’s founder Zong Qinghou is his insistence that his beverage firm shuns the stockmarket. Like ...

Monkey business
Internet & Tech Blockbuster game features iconic literary hero

Sun Wukong, the Monkey King, is one of the most iconic figures in Chinese literature. As the main character in the 16th-century novel Journey to ...

Running with the herd
Banking & Finance Why a cattle firm has come to epitomise ChiNext’s bull market…

After gaining nearly 40% so far this year, Shenzhen’s ChiNext is one of the best performing stock markets across the world’s major ...

Fizzing along
China Consumer How a tycoon jumped from software to seltzer

“You can rank 10th and 20th or even 100th if you are in a promising industry. That’s far better than being first in a rotten industry,” was the ...

Pigs really can fly
Agriculture How high-rise hoggeries are reaching for the skies

Just call them ‘sty-scrapers’ – multi-storey farms that house thousands of pigs and reduce the pressure on scarce agricultural land in ...

Losing the plot
Society Disney in the dock as Mulan fails to flower with Chinese…

When Disney first released Mulan as an animation in 1998, it was a flop in the country where the story was set: China. Local moviegoers ...

The parent trap
World of Weibo The parent trap

In a lawsuit that has sparked much debate, two parents sued their adult daughter, Lili, because she refused to raise her two year-old ...

Fear on the frontier
Sino-File “There is now a real risk of military conflict between India…

Devesh Kapur’s op-ed in the Financial Times warns that border skirmishes in the Himalayas are happening in a context similar to the Sino-Indian War ...

Marginal grains
And Finally Midea makes new ‘AI-controlled’ rice cooker

Rice cookers in their modern form emerged from 1950s Japan, with a thermostat-controlled cooking temperature that shuts off the heat when the rice is ...

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