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WiC 545 (Jun 18, 2021)

Vaccine diplomacy

China and the World, Talking Point How the politics of Covid-19 is preventing a quicker victory over…

After getting to know each other for just 49 days, Taiwanese actress Barbie Hsu and Wang Xiaofei, the mainland Chinese heir to the South Beauty ...

The mother of all bottlenecks

Shipping Covid outbreak in Guangdong sees freight rates surge as vessels idle

The shipping industry has spent the last 18 months in crisis mode because of the pandemic, made worse by an accidental blockage of the Suez Canal in ...

Property SOHO China founders sell control to Blackstone

There’s a Chinese idiom that says ‘a good horse doesn’t return to old pastures’. The old adage suggests that a person should always look ahead ...

Welcome to Wall Street

Banking & Finance More Chinese firms look past Washington’s delisting threat to IPO in…

In an era increasingly defined by geopolitical tension and a push towards economic “decoupling” there is a paradox: never have there been more ...

Brewing interest

China Consumer Another Chinese ‘new tea’ chain heads for IPO in Hong Kong

Remember the last time a Chinese beverage chain reported rapid growth and steep losses but still pulled off a successful IPO? It would be hard to ...

Statements of intent

China and the World Biden courts allies as G7 and NATO summits cite ‘China challenge’…

Claims that Joe Biden was an “old friend” of China’s leader Xi Jinping were always going to be tested once he took office (see WiC518). But ...

Seeing is believing

Auto Industry LiDAR firm raises $300 million after shelving IPO

“LiDAR is a fool’s errand. Anyone relying on LiDAR is doomed. Doomed!” So said Elon Musk in 2019, dismissing a technology that maps out ...

Education ‘Chinese’ university stirs row in Budapest

Two years ago, Hungary’s nationalist leader Viktor Orbán wanted rid of his country’s most prestigious international university because he disliked ...

How will they cope?

Entertainment Tencent’s new reality TV show dumps celebrities in the middle of…

What do you do when you find yourself forced to live with a group of strangers for three weeks in a remote location? The latest reality show from ...

Not just the Russians

Sino-File “China’s growing influence and international policies present challenges to alliance security”

A warning from NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg at the organisation’s summit this week in Brussels. The message was mixed: Stoltenberg said ...

Hook, line and sinker

And Finally Video from Nanjing sparks discussion about pensioner fishing craze

M ost readers of WiC will be familiar with the term dama, referring to typically female retirees who congregate in public spaces and parks to ...