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You suspect that the moment of ‘peak oil’ might have passed when Saudi Arabia says it is diversifying away from the fossil fuel. The Saudis are even building the $500 billion Neom city (literally, ‘new future’) which is set to be served ...
Chen Jin made a name for himself 15 years ago with the invention of the Hanxin computer chip, which means “the heart of Han [Chinese]”. The domestic media was ecstatic about his homegrown processor, predicting that it would allow every ...
For forty years after the 1949 revolution, the island of Hainan was part of Guangdong province for administrative purposes. Its economy was rudimentary, relying on fishing, rubber production and coconuts. The planners didn’t push for much more, ...
Unicorns are supposed to be rare beasts. Mythical, in fact. But according to a study in March by an affiliate of the Ministry of Science and Technology and a Beijing consultancy, there are at least 164 unicorns in China. Of course, these are not ...
Such is his distrust of all things South Korean that even its pop music – or K-pop in everyday parlance – is forbidden. Kim Jong-un’s subjects risk imprisonment if they are caught playing it and Seoul has made a point of blasting K-pop ...
In Mandarin the word for the palm of the hand is zhang, which can also denote the action of gripping, while ‘fist’ (or quan) sounds the same as the word for ‘power’. That’s why in official portraits from the Qing ...
In the struggle to establish global standards for new technologies the Chinese and the Americans are often on opposing sides. Things were different in the late 1990s when Qualcomm’s founder Irwin Jacobs was trying to commercialise CDMA, a ...
Senior politicians in China rarely make public comments about their colleagues, although this etiquette was breached when Xi Jinping met Tom Donilon, Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, in Beijing in 2013. “This is Liu He,” the ...
About 20 years ago, amid the bursting of an asset bubble, the Japanese government injected a huge amount of taxpayer money into a slew of troubled banks and brokerages. Some firms were temporarily nationalised. Chiyoda Mutual, the most leveraged ...
February 16 marks the first day of the Year of the Dog. In Western parlance a ‘dog’ is usually the financial slang for something pretty terrible – think, for instance, of dog deals. In this, our guide to the Year of the Dog, we look at what ...