Tag: China news
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![Nio (NIO.NYSE) surges 12%: Chinese Gov. doesn’t want Tesla (TSLA.Q) to humiliate the locals]()
Nio (NIO.NYSE) surges 12%: Chinese Gov. doesn’t want Tesla (TSLA.Q) to humiliate the locals
NIO took a leaf out of Apple’s (AAPL.Q) playbook and outsourced production to a to a purpose-built factory run by JAC Motors (江淮汽车) a Chinese state-owned automobile manufacturer.
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![Coronavirus freak-out: global markets just paid $3 trillion for a bowl of weak peacock soup]()
Coronavirus freak-out: global markets just paid $3 trillion for a bowl of weak peacock soup
A Wuhan market price list offers 112 types of wild critters including peacocks, foxes, giant salamanders, snakes, rats, porcupines and camel meat.
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Are CNN’s Chinese reporters playing dumb?
“China’s economic slowdown keeps getting worse,” wrote CNN reporter Laura He on September 16, 2019, “That could give the country incentive to repair its trading relationship with the United States.” Indeed, it could. It could also give China incentive to ban ping-pong or mandate the eating of cheeseburgers on Tuesdays. If China is “slowing down”,…
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![CopperBank (CBK.C): China 2.0 – how innovation is changing the game]()
CopperBank (CBK.C): China 2.0 – how innovation is changing the game
It’s easy to look down on people who are more disciplined but less creative than you are. For decades, that’s how we’ve viewed the Chinese. Plodding industrious imitators. I went to China for the first time in 2012, an embedded journalist traveling with a gaggle of mining and energy executives looking for strategic Chinese partners.…
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![China to Trump: “You owe us $1 trillion you rude Nazi!”]()
China to Trump: “You owe us $1 trillion you rude Nazi!”
Cadet Bone Spurs (President Trump) has an obsession with nicknames (“Crooked Hilary” “Sleepy Joe” “Crazy Bernie”) so he’s probably aware that Chinese pundits refer to him as “唐纳德” – a double entendre – meaning both “Donald” and “Rude Nazi”. Other popular nicknames for Trump translate as “Rogue Villain” “Dishonest Greedy Merchant” and “Senile Politician.” Unearthing…
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![China: Markets, Media & Mayhem]()
China: Markets, Media & Mayhem
Markets: From Monday to Thursday this week, stock markets in China got hammered as the pending trade deal between the U.S. and China fell apart. On Friday the Shanghai Composite gained 3.1% and the smaller cap Shenzhen Composite rose 3.8% – erasing most of the week’s losses. There are rumours the Chinese government ordered market-makers…
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![China: Markets, Media & Mayhem]()
China: Markets, Media & Mayhem
Markets: From Monday to Thursday this week, stock markets in China got hammered as the pending trade deal between the U.S. and China fell apart. On Friday the Shanghai Composite gained 3.1% and the smaller cap Shenzhen Composite rose 3.8% – erasing most of the week’s losses. There are rumours the Chinese government ordered market-makers…
