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WiC 513 (Oct 2, 2020)
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Losing the debate
China and the World Chinese media sees Trump-Biden brawl as sign of America’s decline

Until the 1990s observers from the West often mocked China’s so-called ‘old man politics’. That was when the so-called “Eight Immortals” – ...

Too fast, too furious?
Internet & Tech, Talking Point China’s chip industry evokes memories of flawed 1950s steel plan

Drawing on Nikita Khrushchev’s prediction in 1957 that the Soviet Union would overtake the United States as the leading industrial power within 15 ...

Winner emerges
Healthcare A maker of masks and cotton goods is the new star…

US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson did not start out making baby oil or medical prescriptions. Its founders built the century-old enterprise on ...

Overseas ambitions
China Consumer China’s white goods giants line up to bid for Philips’ appliances…

Who would bet against China’s ‘white horses’? Two of the best known are set for a gallop across foreign fields this autumn, prompting investors ...

Beyond the clouds
Internet & Tech Bytedance’s data centre partner goes public on Nasdaq

The startling crash in the oil price earlier this year was a boon for the world’s supertankers. As a floating means of storing surplus crude, the ...

On a deadline
Property Evergrande’s cash scramble spooks investors

Internet conglomerate LeEco and solar energy firm Hanergy are two of the more high-profile companies to run into financial distress in recent years. ...

Promising speech
Environment China says it will be carbon neutral by 2060

Chinese leader Xi Jinping must have guessed what was coming at last week’s United Nations summit. Only a few minutes after US President Donald ...

Depth of experience
Energy & Resources CNOOC debuts new technology to tap heavy oil reserves in the…

Shale and renewables have transformed the outlook for the energy industry, postulates Pulitzer Prize winner Daniel Yergin in his latest outing, The ...

Moving the dial
Telecoms Two Chinese firms eye African payments profit

“Chinese entrepreneurs that go to Africa to start a business – as long as they are unafraid of hardship, exhaustion and loneliness – will achieve ...

Critics’ choice
Entertainment Chinese drama taps ‘Scandinavian noir’ to earn stellar rating on Douban

Set a crime against a bleak or snowy backdrop. Introduce police detectives with miserable family lives, who look like they never get a good night’s ...

Still ticking
Sino-File “TikTok has proferred unrebutted evidence that uncertainty in TikTok’s future availability…

From the ruling by Justice Carl Nichols of the US District Court in Washington, who granted an injunction on Sunday against the Trump ...

Stamping it out
And Finally Gansu government targets tattooed taxi drivers

Some people see them as a form of art or self-expression. For others they are marker of lower socio-economic status or even criminality. The ...

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