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WiC 529 (Feb 19, 2021)

Guilty as charged?

Auto Industry Tesla dressed down after customer complaints

What a difference two years can make. At the beginning of 2019, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang offered Elon Musk a green card after the Tesla founder said ...

The complete package

Logistics, Talking Point How SF Express is going global via its offer for Robert…

Throughout Chinese history emperors surrounded their heirs with the most trustworthy of court officials in a bid to ensure the longevity of their ...

Property Will Greenland’s project face the wrecking ball?

In 2016, Fan Bingbing appeared in a TV commercial for a luxury residential project in Shandong’s coastal city Qingdao. Reportedly the starlet was one ...

China’s jabless rate

Healthcare Is the nation falling behind in race to vaccinate?

China’s response to the Covid-19 crisis has provoked different reactions. The initial handling of the outbreak is still viewed critically by many, ...

China Consumer China’s biggest tooth-brace brand is set for a listing in Hong…

Zia Chishti has no training in orthodontics. And yet he came up with a teeth-straightening idea that has sidelined methods relying on brackets and ...

Cinemas welcome 34 million

Entertainment Chinese box office sets new records over the new year holiday…

While cinemas in the United States are gathering cobwebs, China’s movie industry has celebrated a much busier Chinese New Year. Last Friday – the ...

New year greeting

Internet & Tech Presidential phone call signals reset in relations

The telephone call between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping on February 10 was a long time coming. Biden had received a congratulatory message from China’s ...

China and the World Tit-for-tat bans on CGTN and BBC as Sino-UK relations worsen

China Global Television News or, CGTN, began broadcasting in the UK in 2002 under the name CCTV-9. In its application for a British licence the Chinese ...

Banking & Finance Why China’s first credit tech IPO was pulled

As public relations disasters go it doesn’t get much worse than being sanctioned for the very attribute your company is supposed to excel at. That is ...

Changing channel

Media & Gaming Can Phoenix TV rebound from its P2P woes?

When the international arm of state broadcaster CCTV was rebranded into CGTN in 2016, Chinese President Xi Jinping urged in his congratulatory message ...

Similar substance, new style

Sino-File “I think that President Trump was right to take a tougher…

New US Secretary of State Antony Blinken tells NPR how the approach to China will change in the Biden administration.

Trumped by the Tang

And Finally A Henan broadcaster steals the spotlight from CCTV’s Spring Festival Gala

The late British historian Arnold Toynbee once said that if he were ever given the chance to travel back in time the period he would choose to visit ...