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WiC 590 (Jun 24, 2022)

Decoupling: phase two

Economy, Talking Point Washington pushes for new law to block US investment in China

What’s the best way to stop China challenging for semiconductor supremacy? Probably not by trying to suffocate its supply of key equipment and ...

Economy Beijing warns Washington on rate hikes

Fighting inflation seems to be one of a diminishing number of objectives that the world’s two biggest economies have in common. For example, one of ...

Banking & Finance Bank scandal prompts ‘health code’ row

In the 2008 movie The Dark Knight, Batman creates a virus that infiltrates every cell phone in Gotham, allowing him to spy on the city’s 30 ...

Less confident consumers

China Consumer Does the 618 event point to slowing growth in the Chinese…

Was the 618 online shopping festival a riot of consumer confidence after lockdown measures had eased or further evidence that demand has dropped and ...

China Consumer Why IKEA shutting a store in Shanghai was a hot topic

Zhang Meng, a college student in Shanghai, used to spend her weekends walking around the IKEA store in Shanghai’s Yangpu district with her friends, ...

Getting its slice

Internet & Tech Wingtech want bigger role in Apple’s supply chain

The Malus spectabilis, or Chinese flowering apple, is a tree that grows in a number of provinces in China. Each spring it produces spectacular ...

Internet & Tech Bytedance firm takes on Zuckerberg in the metaverse

When the science fiction writer Neal Stephenson came up with the term metaverse in 1982, he envisaged a virtual world where multitudes of people could ...

China and the World Russia attends an annual summit with China

The ‘BRIC’ concept, an acronym for Brazil, Russia, India and China, was introduced more than two decades ago by former Goldman Sachs economist Jim ...

Saudi ties assessed

Corporate Q&A Freeman appraises China’s Middle East relations

This is a short second part to last week’s lengthy Q&A with China expert Chas Freeman. The background on his stellar diplomatic career can found ...

End of the line

Rail & Infrastructure Fengtai reopens as Asia’s biggest train station

Fengtai railway station in Beijing was the Chinese capital’s first proper train station, built in the late 1890s during the minor construction boom ...

Cinemas get a Jurassic jolt

Entertainment Are Hollywood studios going the way of the dinosaur in China?…

Even though nearly three decades have passed since Steven Spielberg’s 1993 dinosaur epic Jurassic Park first hit the big screen, the ...

Red Star Prince of Ballet

Born in 1992 in Huizhou in Guangdong province, ballet dancer Chen Zhenwei’s love for dance began in kindergarten. His parents had hoped for him to go ...

More trouble ahead

Sino-File “Our steps to implement the Uighur Law on time and on…

Robert Silvers, an undersecretary at the US Department of Homeland Security, comments on new rules that came into force from Tuesday blocking ...

And Finally Hong Kong’s Palace Museum opens July 2

In 1924, thirteen years after the end of the Qing Dynasty, the expulsion from the Forbidden City of Puyi, China’s last emperor, raised questions ...

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