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WiC 573 (Feb 18, 2022)

The case for the defence

Internet & Tech, Talking Point STAR Market listing signals new era for China’s original “Mr Internet”

About 20 years ago Edward Tian was one of the most talked-about CEOs in China. In an economy dominated by state-owned enterprises run by ...

Triangular thinking

China and the World Fifty years after Nixon met Mao, are there lessons for today’s…

On February 17, 1972 President Richard Nixon departed Washington for a seminal journey to China in which he met Mao Zedong. As he told journalists ...

Island diplomacy

China and the World China backs Argentina’s Falklands claim

Argentinian leader Alberto Fernandez wouldn’t have been counting on Olympic glory when he flew into Beijing earlier this month – his nation’s ...

Cards on the table

Banking & Finance China’s digital currency challenges Visa at Beijing Olympics

Gold will always be the ultimate goal for athletes at the Olympic Games. But competitors in Beijing this month have another currency to consider for ...

China Consumer The hottest selling item in China right now is Beijing’s Olympic…

In 2008, the Beijing Olympics had not one but five mascots (one of which was a Tibetan antelope). More recently, the mascot of the 2021 Summer Olympics ...

China Consumer Problems percolating for Heytea as growth slows

In 2017, a food blogger asked the burning question that many consumers – who’d spent hours queuing in line at Heytea – wanted an answer to: is ...

Internet & Tech New stock filing triggers sell-off of Alibaba shares

When Alibaba’s market capitalisation almost slid below $300 billion in late January, it represented a symbolically humiliating moment for China’s ...

Auto Industry Midea wants to be a major player in electric cars

In a sign of the times, last weekend’s Super Bowl in Los Angeles was saturated with advertisements for electric vehicles (EVs), with major players ...

Sensitive to digs

Energy & Resources Pushback over mining purchases in Zimbabwe

“Were it not for China’s funding support and the work of Chinese companies in communications and power generation, [these accusations] would ...

The surprise star

Sport Why a Japanese skater lost out on gold but won over…

When Japanese figure skater Hanyu Yuzuru hosted a press conference days after he failed to defend his Olympic title, at least six million fans in China ...

Society Social media exposes horror of chained wife in Xuzhou

In late January a Douyin vlogger posted a video of a middle-aged woman tethered in a freezing outhouse in Xuzhou city in Jiangsu province with a chain ...

The definition of success

Sino-File Former Google boss Eric Schmidt explains to the Wall Street Journal…

“In China’s urban centres 5G phones get average speeds of 300 megabits per second – fast enough to download a high-definition movie in two ...

Bowdlerised by Beijing

And Finally Complaints as Chinese streaming sites censor iconic US sitcom Friends

“The one with…” That’s how the episode titles of the Nineties’ sitcom show Friends usually begin. “The one with the Cat”, “The ...