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WiC 559 (Oct 15, 2021)

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Power struggle over coal

Economy, Talking Point Will electricity outages force China to rethink its green goals?

China’s electricity sector is in a crisis, made worse as winter approaches. Power outages, of course, have occurred in the past. But the disruption ...

Wind in its sails

Energy & Resources Cleantech giant Envision now powers 200 GW of renewables around the…

Covid-19 has made international travel much more complicated. Crossing borders is still a struggle. There are a jumble of pandemic-based rules and ...

The French connection

Corporate Q&A CEO discusses why Fosun grouped all its fashion assets under Lanvin…

When Fosun International purchased European couture house Lanvin (see WiC400) in 2018, many questioned whether the Shanghai-based conglomerate could ...

China’s biggest ever movie?

China and the World New film about the Korean War highlights grim state of Sino-US…

The Korean War has been called ‘the Forgotten War’ in the United States, according to the New York Times. In part that’s because coverage of the ...

A matter of time?

Cross Strait Fears escalate over Taiwan with Xi declaration

The Korean War was a conflict with no clear winner. One possible exception was Chiang Kai-shek, even though he was a non-combatant in the conflict. A ...

Atomic age

Energy & Resources China tests innovations in nuclear power generation

In 1970, China’s then prime minister Zhou Enlai kicked off the country’s civilian nuclear energy programme by announcing that, “nuclear power ...

Private property

Property Real estate firms in delisting moves. Why now?

Hong Kong billionaire Joseph Lau first became linked to Evergrande founder Xu Jiayin when they became card buddies in the “Big Dee Club”, which ...

Commercial break

Entertainment Alibaba to sell Mango TV stake, following regulatory pressure

After Sisters Who Make Waves, Hunan Satellite TV hit ratings gold again with a masculine equivalent of the reality competition: Call Me by ...

Xiangyin’s gender agenda

Society Online backlash after town tells women not to leave

Chinese women are used to being categorised into unpleasantly named groups. Women who aren’t married by their late twenties are shengnu or ...

Ray thinks it’s still okay

Sino-File “At this stage I am assured that this doesn’t mean foreigners…

Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio sounds a more reassuring note on China in comments to the Financial Times. Dalio admitted that “we are in an ...

Grocery glamour

And Finally Online buzz as Prada offers designer paper bags at a Shanghai…

For Shanghai’s trendier millennials and Gen Z’ers, fruit and veg shopping rarely tops their to-do lists. But during the most recent National Day ...

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