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Talking Point

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Doctor M’s orders

A misstep in Malaysia for China’s Belt and Road Initiative?
Jul 13, 2018 (WiC 417)

The inaugural Belt and Road Forum held in May last year was the coming-out party of Xi Jinping’s signature policy. With 29 foreign leaders attending the Beijing event, Xinhua described the gathering – rather exotically – as a “fruit ...

Renaissance man

The investment firm behind a herd of China’s unicorns heads for an IPO
Jul 6, 2018 (WiC 416)

Private equity firms usually prefer to operate behind the scenes. So it was a surprise when Blackstone Group, one of the sector’s most influential players, put itself in the spotlight by going public in May 2007. The $4 billion initial ...

Google invests in Chinese e-commerce giant alongside Tencent and Walmart
Jun 29, 2018 (WiC 415)

Forget about Alibaba and Tencent. The most dominant internet combo of recent times is Google and Facebook. Combined, the two firms account for more than 80% of global digital advertising spend and their market value is almost as big as the ...

What’s the goal?

How China is bankrolling the World Cup in Russia
Jun 22, 2018 (WiC 414)

Moscow 1980 turned out to be one of the most expensive Olympic Games in history and the event also proved to be disastrous for the Russians, both politically and financially, following the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan on Christmas Eve ...

Meet my new buddy

But is China the biggest winner of the Trump-Kim summit?
Jun 15, 2018 (WiC 413)

He can allegedly launch a nuclear missile at a Californian city, but when it comes to getting to Singapore he has to borrow a jumbo jet from China. It is one of the many paradoxes of the Kim Jong-un regime. The footage of his arrival at Changi ...

Following the flows

China’s A-shares have arrived at MSCI – which are favourites for investors?
Jun 8, 2018 (WiC 412)

Less than a year after the Shanghai Stock Exchange launched with fits and starts in late 1991, the Chinese government began preparing to open the stock market to foreign capital. There were only eight A-share firms listed in Shanghai at the ...

Time to take charge

Why Chinese firms are driving the investment boom in lithium
Jun 1, 2018 (WiC 411)

First discovered in ore at a Swedish iron mine in 1817, lithium was initially recommended as a remedy for gout and it had another unsuccessful stint as treatment for high blood pressure. From the 1950s it was more widely prescribed as a mood ...

An eSporting life

Thanks to Tencent the eSports industry is one of the fastest growing in China
May 25, 2018 (WiC 410)

With the gaokao, China’s make-or-break college entrance exam, just a few weeks away, a high school teacher decided to lighten things up by discussing some of the most desirable things his students could do in their future ...

Will MSCI’s inclusion of A-shares be overshadowed by trade war tensions?
May 18, 2018 (WiC 409)

If US President Donald Trump really wants a full-blown trade war with China, Wall Street investors are not yet feeling the pinch. Take the Dow Jones Industrial Average. The index closed at a record high of 26,616 on January 26 this year and ...

Will it be China’s Samsung?

What is Xiaomi and is it worth $100 billion?
May 11, 2018 (WiC 408)

Before founding Xiaomi in 2010, Lei Jun is said to have been given the chance to invest in China’s biggest internet duo, Tencent and Alibaba (now worth almost $1 trillion combined). In 1998 Lei was 29 but already the general manager of ...

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