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WiC 586 (May 27, 2022)

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The great reconfiguration

Economy, Talking Point Is the global supply chain set to be reshaped after Shanghai’s…

Is Shanghai’s two months of Covid lockdown finally coming to an end? Not quite yet, it seems, with most of the city’s 25 million residents still ...

Tour de force

China and the World Joe Biden’s trip to East Asia adds to tensions across the…

Joe Biden blundered this week by calling South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol by his predecessor’s name (Moon Jae-in). Yet by breaking with ...

Out of the ashes

China and the World New Aussie PM inherits thorny relations with China

During an interview with CBS News in September last year, Scott Morrison, then Australia’s prime minister, tried to take a softer tone towards China ...

Hong Kong’s allure

Banking & Finance Didi delists from NYSE; HKEX boss goes to Davos

Is a situation impassable or impossible? It turns out to be both in Alice in Wonderland in the Disney film, when the cartoon doorknob tells Alice that ...

Process power

Internet & Tech Chinese firms join the race for DPU dominance

There’s a new semiconductor acronym in town and the race is on to make a killing from it. The new chip that promises to be every bit as big as its ...

Warehousing assets

Property Hong Kong’s biggest REIT branches out with Chinese logistics play

The best retail real estate investment trusts (REITs) are typically underpinned by the busiest shopping malls or outlet centres in prime ...

Blowing into Italy

Environment Ming Yang expands turbine empire into Europe

Europe’s largest wind-turbine manufacturers fear an easterly storm as China’s largest players start to finish their first projects on the ...

Herd instinct

Property Fucheng’s financial row puts cattle king back in the news

Although Li Fucheng isn’t as well known as China’s tech titans or biggest property bosses, the titles of ‘Yanjiao’s Li Ka-shing’ or ...

Poetic licence

Entertainment What are the lessons of Audi’s disastrous venture into verse?

In the 1980s Saatchi & Saatchi was renowned for its creativity and skilful application of advertising techniques in political campaigning in the ...

What’s trending for spending

HSBC Partner Content China’s next-gen shoppers in focus at HSBC conference

While Covid might have thrown a curve ball at consumer spending over the short term in China, the pandemic’s impact isn’t going to be permanent. ...

Crawleys back in China

Entertainment New Downton film fails to win audiences in China

At a time when Covid lockdowns mean that fewer films are screening in China’s cinemas – especially in cities like Beijing and Shanghai – a ...

How to lie to parents

World of Weibo How to lie to parents

In an era of online learning and lockdown boredom it’s not surprising that Chinese high school students have been looking for outlets to vent their ...

Extremely unlikely

Sino-File Eric Johnson, CEO of Tokyo-based JSR, one of the key suppliers…

“I think China would love to develop their own EUV [extreme ultraviolet lithography] competency, their ecosystem for these things. I think it is ...

Pupils learn how to skip

And Finally Skipping tutors tap into demand from grade-obsessed parents

Chinese parents once spared little expense on tutoring for their children, hoping that the extra classes would help them to get ahead of their ...

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