A Chinese copycat of the Range Rover Evoque has been banished from forecourts in China, a rare legal victory for foreign companies locked in intellectual property disputes with local firms. A court in … (…
Monthly Archives For March 2019
Brazil overtakes China in consumer sentiment, according to Credit Suisse survey
The bank, however, still sees “structural growth” in local goods and brands. Brazil has just overtaken China in terms of consumer sentiment, as the world’s second-largest economy slows down and … ( read original story…
Canadian companies start to benefit from membership in China-based infrastructure bank
OTTAWA — At least one Canadian company has successfully bid on a contract with the Asian Infrastructure and Investment Bank, a nascent multilateral institution based out of Beijing. In 2017 Canada … ( read original…
This is China’s playbook to pit EU countries against each other
Teresa Coratella, program manager at the European Council on Foreign Relations in Rome, told Business Insider: “I think that China would definitely prefer to have 27 different policies instead of one … ( read original…
Beijing promises wider financial access for foreign investors as US-China trade war talks enter crucial stage
READ FULL ARTICLE “Our conclusion is that further opening up will do more good than harm,” said Yi Gang, governor of the People’s Bank of China, at the China Development Forum. “All these [opening up…
Chinese own nearly 7.6 billion bank cards
A staff member (L) of China UnionPay introduces a new type of bank card with visualized information function at an exhibition in Beijing, capital of China, June 1, 2015. [Photo/Xinhua] On average, … ( read…
China’s Back in the Market for Hogs And So Are Hedge Funds
(Bloomberg) — There are finally enough signs of an emerging pork catastrophe in China to propel prices and get funds to turn bullish again. African swine fever, which is highly lethal to pigs and ……
Yunji, a startup that enables social commerce via WeChat, files for $200M US IPO
China’s Pinduoduo was all the rage in 2018 … in September that Yunji planned to raise around $1 billion in the IPO at a valuation of between $7 billion and $10 billion. Like Pinduoduo, Yunji…
Should You Buy China Mobile’s Post-Earnings Dip?
Shares of China Mobile (NYSE: CHL) fell 5% on March 21 after the company posted its annual report for 2018. Its operating revenue rose 1.8% to 736.8 billion RMB ($110 billion). Within that total ……
China operator profits march on despite tariff cuts
China’s mobile operators posted remarkably robust results in 2018, given the government pushed to aggressively reduce mobile data tariffs, with all three reporting year-on-year increases in profits, … ( read original story …)
Can China count on its SOEs to boost ailing employment amid US-China trade war?
Like his civil servant peers, Xing is being asked to read articles and videos on a new Chinese government propaganda mobile application called Xuexi Qiangguo, which translates as “Study to make China … ( read…
China to push 5G commercialisation even as Huawei faces US-led resistance in West
READ FULL ARTICLE China, the US, Japan and South Korea are the countries competing in the global race to launch commercial 5G mobile services, which are expected to drive the introduction of more … (…
Brands grab market share from the West
Chinese brands, especially many dynamic young ones that we call … Andy Zhao, president of Nielsen China, the global measurement and data analytics company, said the consumption patterns of Chinese … ( read original story…
