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WiC 550 (Jul 23, 2021)

Thinking the unthinkable

Internet & Tech, Talking Point Are Alibaba and Tencent close to agreeing a strategic ‘truce’?

The longstanding rivalry between Alibaba and Tencent on China’s internet scene has sometimes been compared to the decades of Cold War tension between ...

Internet & Tech Antitrust ruling thwarts Tencent’s attempt to consolidate streaming firms

When antitrust laws were first introduced in the United States more than a century ago, they were aimed at taking on the oil industry. For many years ...

A truly deadly downpour

Environment Zhengzhou receives 365-days worth of rainfall in just 72 hours

Around 6pm on Tuesday evening a passenger train on Line 5 of Zhengzhou’s subway system was approaching Shakoulu station in the north of the city. ...

Confidence crisis?

Property Fears over property giant Evergrande worsen

According to a Chinese idiom, ‘good fortune doesn’t come twice but bad luck rarely hits once’. Shareholders of China Evergrande have found that ...

China Consumer Is this China’s most costly celebrity scandal ever?

As the saying goes, where there’s smoke there’s fire. So when allegations about sexual abuse were levelled at rapper-actor-model Kris Wu, he saw ...

Demographic dividend

China Consumer E-commerce giant has invested in Gen Z ‘unicorn’ retailer KK Group…

The idea that a generation shares certain characteristics, and therefore qualifies for a moniker, ought to be credited to two American novelists. One ...

Moving the needle

Healthcare Who is going to benefit from China’s approval of the BioNTech…

Pfizer, whose Covid-19 vaccines are protecting over half of the fully inoculated population in the US, has been trumpeting the need for a third booster ...

A CO2 conundrum

ESG Slow start for China’s emissions trading scheme

Without more effort from China to bring down its carbon emissions, there is no chance of escaping the “mutual suicide pact” of climate change, John ...

A bad restaurant review

Entertainment Famed film director Feng Xiaogang’s foodie-female drama struggles

After six seasons and two features films, HBO’s Sex and the City is getting a reboot. The cable network announced that three of the main ...

A happy ending, at last

Society Father reunited with abducted son after decades-long search

In the 2015 film Lost and Love, Andy Lau plays a father searching for his kidnapped son for 15 years. Along the way he meets a young man that ...

‘After’ the end of history

Sino-File “If China succeeds in remaining stable, if it succeeds in continuing…

Francis Fukuyama discusses the impact of China’s rise on his famed ‘end of history’ theory, which posited that Western liberal democracy would ...

Manholes missing

And Finally Passion for a livestreamer leads to mass theft

Manhole covers can bear a passing resemblance to supersized coins. And sometimes they can be worth something, especially the ones that are made from ...