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WiC 592 (Jul 8, 2022)

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China and the World, Talking Point How the Ukraine crisis and China’s rise are splitting the world…

G20 summits are typically pedestrian affairs, based around photo opportunities and bland closing statements. But this year’s gathering in Indonesia ...

Symbolic buy

Aviation Boeing irked by China’s massive Airbus order

The timing with which Chinese aviation bosses disclosed the purchase of 292 Airbus aircraft on July 1 was surprising. Massive orders like these are ...

Artificial sell-off?

Internet & Tech China’s AI giant SenseTime in share price dive

One of the more questionable applications of artificial intelligence is as a way of monitoring how students concentrate in class. That technique is ...

So who won?

Internet & Tech Shenzhen decision marks new chapter in China for Arm

The forced departure of the chief executive and chairman of Arm Technology (China), following a two-year tussle with the rest of the company’s board, ...

Chipper trio

Internet & Tech Chinese foundries bound up the global sales rankings

In his State of the Union speech in March, American president Joe Biden waxed lyrical about a “thousand empty acres of land” 20 miles east of ...

A casual approach

M&A Billionaire Chengs in surprise Giordano move

Hong Kong clothing brands are out of fashion with Chinese consumers. That diminished appeal was epitomised last week by how little attention was given ...

Scandinavian blues

China Consumer Following IKEA, fellow Swedish firm H&M in China store pullback too…

Swedish fast-fashion giant Hennes & Mauritz (H&M) first set up shop in mainland China in 2007, when it unveiled a three-storey flagship store ...

Toothpaste war

China Consumer Two dental rivals launch IPOs

For older generations of Chinese that adhere to more traditional beliefs about health, a ‘must’ is the avoidance of cold foods and drinks. That ...

Camel train

Rail & Infrastructure China’s latest engineering feat is a spectacular desert railway

China has built railways through towering mountains, above permafrosted soils and across choppy seas. But the completion of a railway around the edges ...

IPO wrinkles

Healthcare Profitable collagen firms on investors’ radar

Collagen, its champions say, is the miracle ingredient that will leave your skin fresh, your bones strong and your joints pain-free. Collagen-infused ...

Sorry is the hardest word

Entertainment Popular new drama takes aim at power abuses by rural officials

To prepare for her role as a pregnant peasant in Zhang Yimou’s 1992 movie The Story of Qiu Ju, Gong Li spent two months living in a small ...

Out of tune

Society Top Cantopop singer causes stir with ‘oil’ comments

Last Thursday Chinese president Xi Jinping left mainland China for the first time in 29 months. In a tightly-scripted visit, he arrived in Hong Kong ...

Zhou’s near-death crash

Red Star Chinese F1 driver survives British GP crash

A record-breaking crowd of 142,000 witnessed a dramatic multi-car collision at the start of last weekend’s Formula One race in the UK. Such was the ...

Upwardly mobile

Sino-File “Stepping into the phone-making sector, we can achieve great synergy effects…

Li Shufu, founder of car giant Geely, talks to the press after its acquisition of smartphone firm Meizu. “The merging of technologies of consumer ...

Trial by smile

And Finally Emojis become admissible in Chinese courts

U+1F631, U+1F914 and U+1F937 is Unicode notation for ‘screaming face’, ‘thinking face’ and ‘confused shrug’ in emojis. It’s also how ...

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