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WiC 570 (Jan 21, 2022)

A theme for the future

Talking Point, Tourism How the metaverse may help local rivals challenge Disney and Universal

For decades South Sky Column, a 1,080-metre sandstone pillar, has been a must-see for visitors to Zhangjiajie in Hunan province. In 2010 the ...

Neighbourhood watch

Belt and Road How did China react to the recent political unrest in Kazakhstan

On January 2 fury at a massive hike in petrol prices in Kazakhstan spilled over into street protests. The demonstrations began in Zhanaozen, an oil ...

More tigers caught

Economy New TV show zeroes in on corrupt officials

In 2018 Sun Lijun was promoted to the role of vice minister. At 48 the Australian-educated official was given responsibility for maintaining domestic ...

Too much energy

China and the World Sino-Indian rivalry hurts Nepalese power exports

On paper the synergies seem undeniable: to the north is China, with a track record in hydroelectric power projects. In the middle is Nepal, whose ...

A pivotal moment

Rise of the RMB What do rate cuts signal for the renminbi?

How much of an increase in interest rates should we expect this year? In the United States the Federal Reserve is coming under major pressure to raise ...

Beautiful coding

China Consumer Why AI giant SenseTime is moving into cosmetics

After raising over $500 million in an initial public offering in Hong Kong (see WiC568), it didn’t take long for AI technology firm SenseTime to put ...

Back in the fold

Internet & Tech Samsung wants to reclaim China phone crown

If a story begins with the opening line “once upon a time”, most readers make a couple of early assumptions. One: that the events being depicted ...

Internet & Tech After 32 years Japanese icon shutters Zhuhai camera plant

Photography once seemed to be a dying art, especially among the generation born from the mid-1990s. Generation Zs have only known the digital world and ...

China Consumer Bird’s nest maker to test IPO market’s appetite

Bytedance’s investment in Weinian Brand Management looked doomed from the start. Not long after the two announced a deal – which saw the parent ...

A chapter closed

Media & Gaming How the Kindle was killed by WeChat

There are different reasons to get a Kindle. Purists like the fact that the electronic reader’s screen is black-and-white so it doesn’t require a ...

Entertainment Gao Yuanyuan plays a workaholic juggling family obligations in new show

According to a Chinese axiom, men make houses while women make homes. But China’s latest hit TV series challenges that traditional belief, examining ...

‘Common prosperity’ explained

Sino-File “The common prosperity we desire is not egalitarianism. We will first…

President Xi Jinping addresses the World Economic Forum, which held its annual meeting online rather than in Davos. Xi was talking about his signature ...

And Finally KFC and Pop Mart tie-up attacked for food waste

To celebrate 35 years of operating in China, fast-food chain KFC commissioned a series of cute figurines from the wildly popular local toy maker Pop ...