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Issue 443

WiC 443 (Mar 8, 2019)

Is it different this time?

Banking & Finance, Talking Point Bullishness on Chinese stocks rises as MSCI ups its index allocation

Politics isn’t supposed to be a place to get rich but China’s lawmakers seem to be doing well enough, with 93 dollar-denominated billionaires in ...

Finding the X-factor

Corporate Q&A Why XPENG Motors thinks it’s in pole position to challenge Tesla…

The BAT troika – Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent – are three of China’s best-known companies. But fast-forward five years and three electric vehicle ...

Wasted youth

Society, Sport Spate of ‘naturalisations’ point to Chinese soccer’s problems

On February 13, when 20 year-old John Hou Saeter received his temporary Chinese ID in Beijing, he made history as the nation’s first ...

A tad risqué

China Consumer Yeshu coconut drink criticised for its misleading and erotic marketing style…

The practice of using erotica in marketing to lure customers dates back as least far as the 1870s. That’s when Pearl Tobacco featured a nude female ...

The noisy neighbour

Economy Shenzhen’s economy officially overtakes Hong Kong

In 1984 paramount leader Deng Xiaoping visited the then nascent city of Shenzhen – the former fishing village designated a special economic zone. On ...

A chorus from the capital

Economy What were the policy signals from the Two Sessions meetings?

The Chinese government is no fan of hip-hop culture (see WiC393) although that didn’t stop it from putting together a five-minute rap to coincide ...

Pilot project

China and the World Chinese-designed plane shoots down Indian jet

Did Pakistan use a Chinese-designed fighter jet to down an Indian MiG over Kashmir last month? That seems likely if, as Islamabad says, its air force ...

Her most revealing role?

Entertainment Why Zhang Ziyi has chosen to take part in a reality…

Zhang Ziyi shot to stardom when director Lee Ang cast her in his unconventional martial arts-cum-love story Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. ...

Road test

Planet China QR codes are more widely used in China than anywhere else…

QR codes are more widely used in China than anywhere else on the planet. In fact, the city of Nanchang has even started using them to deter jaywalking. ...

Shanghai station in 5G first

Cartoons Shanghai station in 5G first

The promise of 5G is that billions of machines, appliances and sensors can be connected at much lower cost through a network that is up to 100 times ...

Deadly serious

Sino-File “Is America so determined to contain China’s challenge and preserve its…

Professor Hugh White of the Australian National University tells the South China Morning Post that if not, the US “will not win this new cold war”. ...

Lateral thinker

And Finally Harbin student finds handwriting fix

Chinese children do more homework than kids in any other nation – an average of 2.87 hours a day, according to afanti100.com, an online education ...