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WiC 596 (Aug 19, 2022)

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Beijing’s new Donald debate

China and the World, Talking Point How did Chinese react to the dramatic raid on Trump’s home?

One of the most feared punishments in imperial China was called chaojia, a term for ransacking a house and confiscating all of the possessions ...

Bleak outlook

Economy China cuts interest rates on bad economic news

In January we speculated that the Chinese were going to follow a different path on interest rates to other major economies over the remainder of the ...

Taiwan tensions rise

Cross Strait Relations with America continue to be fraught after Pelosi’s trip to…

After the People’s Liberation Army took control of China’s northeast in 1948, the two million residents of Beijing spent months waiting nervously ...

Seoul mates

Internet & Tech US legislation aims to hamstring China’s progress in semiconductors

In the late nineteenth century a 15 year-old girl called Annie Oakley won a $100 bet with a much older man over which of them was the better ...

Stratospheric

Banking & Finance Chinese stock goes up over 300 times in IPO in US

News last week that some of China’s largest firms are saying farewell to Wall Street has highlighted how a longstanding row about giving local ...

Failing to deliver

China Consumer Investors ponder their losses as grocery start-up’s strategy unravels

When the content creator IC Laboratory found out that Missfresh, a Chinese grocery delivery start-up, might be going out of business, he admitted to a ...

Soda struggle

China Consumer Coke’s latest challenger is...

Richard Branson tried to topple Coke with his launch of Virgin Cola in 1994. “But Coca-Cola had a lot more firepower than us,” the British ...

Chickening out

China Consumer Setback for US fast food chain

Seeing the success of Kentucky Fried Chicken, American chicken burger chain Popeyes started out in 1972 as ‘Chicken on the Run’, serving ...

The court of public opinion

Entertainment A new Chinese drama accused of being a copy of US series…

Hailed as one of the best legal dramas on television, The Good Wife was broadcast on the US network CBS between 2009 and 2016. It followed the ...

Bargaining chips

Sino-File “My feeling is that the only sensible strategy with the Chinese,…

Hermann Hauser, a veteran entrepreneur who was involved in the founding of leading UK chip firm Arm, told the Financial Times that he detects ...

Making a move

And Finally SenseTime releases an AI chess robot in a new push to…

WiC’s rich history of reporting on robots kicked off more than a decade ago with the spectacular creations of amateur inventor Wu Yulu, who made ...

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