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WiC 537 (Apr 23, 2021)

Troubled waters

Cross Strait, Talking Point A drought and a wastewater plan add to cross-Strait tensions

Some of the world’s biggest battles over the last century have been fought over oil. But Kamala Harris, the American vice-president, thinks that more ...

A chance to cool down?

Environment, ESG Can China and the US find common ground in climate change…

Global temperatures are rising but could they offer a chance to take some of the heat out of the relationship between China and the US, after months of ...

Manning the batteries

Auto Industry, ESG Oil major joins China’s EV race with NIO partnership

If there’s one thing that can be confidently said about China’s development over the past few decades, it’s that change happens at lightning ...

Going after Beike

Property Second biggest e-commerce player under attack

After Alibaba was slapped with a record $2.8 billion fine for anti-competitive behaviour (see WiC536), regulators called a meeting of more than 30 of ...

The energy of the future?

Energy & Resources, ESG Longi and Sinopec team up in long-term pivot to hydrogen-based energy…

The footage of the heads of Sinopec, Longi and two other energy companies sitting down for a debate might well have looked like a World Economic Forum ...

Hoarding reserves

Auto Industry CATL readies new cobalt deal

Cobalt is found in almost all of the lithium-ion batteries that power smartphones, laptops and electric cars today. An element commonly found in copper ...

Back with the wind in its sails

Energy & Resources, ESG Sany plans STAR listing of new energy wind turbine unit

A decade ago, Liang Wengen was riding high at the top of the Forbes China rich list. The founder of Sany Heavy Industry became the country’s richest ...

Logistics New rules to curb couriers’ packaging waste

Chinese delivery companies transported 83 billion parcels last year, generating some 16 million tonnes of waste paper and packaging. Food delivery ...

Too many tigers

Entertainment, Society Elementary school drama focuses on obsessive parenting

It was a decade ago that Amy Chua released her hugely controversial book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother. In it she explained why ...

Dilraba Dilmurat

Red Star China's most popular Uighur actress

Who is she? Dilraba Dilmurat, also known as Dilireba, is an actress, singer and model of Uighur ethnicity. Now 28, she got her ...

Taking on Tesla

Sino-File “We have a saying in China. To defeat someone, you need…

XPENG founder He Xiaopeng tells the Wall Street Journal he wants to overtake Tesla using innovation. XPENG unveiled its third production vehicle, the ...

Suspicious calls

And Finally New anti-fraud app gets 100 million downloads

Phone scams are big business in China: in the first three months of this year citizens were said to have lost nearly Rmb19 billion ($2.92 billion) to ...