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WiC 574 (Feb 25, 2022)

A golden endorsement

Sport, Talking Point Who were China’s big commercial stars at the 2022 Winter Olympics…

The handshake between Deng Xiaoping and Muhammad Ali in December 1979 was a ground-shaking moment in both sport and geopolitics. China had just ...

Charges unmerited

Auto Industry CATL hit by Tesla rumours amid share price slump

The ‘Pyramid of Success’ is how one of America’s most famous basketball coaches defined what it takes to climb to the top. It’s often cited as ...

The power of social media

Economy Xuzhou scandal sees city’s bonds and consumer brands boycotted

It’s been a month since news broke of the “Feng County mother of eight” – a mentally ill woman chained in a freezing outhouse near the city of ...

Assembling allies

Auto Industry iPhone contractor Luxshare has joined the car building binge

Another week, and another bit of headline news from the electric vehicle industry. This time the buzz is around a deal between two firms from ...

Delivering a hand

Internet & Tech Meituan stock drops on latest regulatory news

Analysts are now debating what “common prosperity” means when it comes to investing in Chinese stocks. A decade ago, the equivalent buzzword was ...

A very short reign

Internet & Tech How a metaverse app briefly toppled WeChat

Some ideas in tech make it into our daily lexicon before they become an everyday reality. The hottest buzzword during the pandemic has to be the ...

China Consumer Leading oral healthcare brand readies for a Hong Kong IPO

As Cervantes put it in Don Quixote: “Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.” That often wasn’t always the view in Chinese ...

A rough time in the rag trade

China Consumer Bytedance tries and fails to take on SheIn, then exits fast…

It is often said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. So it should not have come as a big surprise that SheIn, a low profile Chinese ...

Dirty emissions

Energy & Resources Surging coal production back in the spotlight

China’s energy bosses have been championing this month’s Winter Olympics as the first to run totally on renewable electricity. No doubt it helps ...

A new silicon star?

Environment Conglomerate Shuangliang makes solar push

If there’s one thing that companies and investors are learning about the global transition to net zero is that it’s turning out to be a very bumpy ...

The height of fashion

Entertainment China’s answer to The Devil Wears Prada becomes latest TV sensation

In the 2006 film The Devil Wears Prada, Anne Hathaway plays an aspiring journalist Andy Sachs who accidentally landed a job as the assistant ...

The all seeing state

And Finally Netizens unnerved by new uses of surveillance

What does a mobile phone thief from Hangzhou have in common with IT workers at the internet firm Zhihu? The answer is surveillance. This month ...