Reporting / asset management

-HK as the new business hub for Russian companies amist a war

• Scoop: U.S. Treasury warned Hong Kong banks on tech exports to Russia
• Scoop: U.S. Treasury official visits Hong Kong as China tensions thaw

-Foreign businesses caught in China-Western geopolitics tensions:

• Profile: HSBC'S identity in crisis 
• Scoop: U.S. fund manager VanEck pauses China retail project: sources
• Scoop: US manager State Street to lose out mandates of HK's largest ETF
• Scoop: Neuberger, Fidelity undergo delayed inspections of China retail units
• Scoop: Fidelity faces personnel changes in China as it awaits retail fund unit approval
• Scoop: Vanguard feeder fund partner voices concern over business relationship
• Scoop: Vanguard exits from China state funds mandates prompts speculation
• Exclusive: BlackRock, Fidelity, T. Rowe set for huge boost from US$1B Ant investment
• Scoop: China-South Korea ETF cross-listing scheme stalls
• Scoop: Top China, Korea ETF issuers link up for new cross-listing scheme
• Fidelity, T. Rowe's early bets on ByteDance may soon bear fruit
• BlackRock and Vanguard face heavy burden of US sanctions on China
• Trump index investing scrutiny could hurt US more than China
• Security law, US sanctions complicate operations for HK fund firms

-Financial services turmoils

• Scoop: UBS China fund management project stalls after Credit Suisse deal

-Covid-19 rocks the well-paid asset management industry

• Exclusive: HK fund firms prop up staff wages with HK$24.4M in subsidies
• Exclusive: Product launch promotions disrupted in HK as virus fears persist

-China landscape

• Global managers try to decipher Xi's 'common prosperity' policy for China
• Newsletter: China's too-big-to-fall real estate's debt crisis is the latest flashing point of increasingly spilt investor views
• Chinese banks woo overseas asset managers
• The rise of China's US$10B star fund manager: Liu Gesong

-Connecting the dots: China property crisis

• Fund firms seek opportunities amid Evergrande's financing concerns
• Flurry of Chinese bond defaults prompt caution for managers

Reporting / mobility

-China EV landscape

• Scoop: This Chinese electric-vehicle startup is actually selling in the US and Europe
• These Chinese EV makers are eyeing the US and Europe even as they struggle at home
• Why a Chinese electric vehicle startup thinks cars should be assembled like iPhones
• Tesla’s Chinese rival NIO desperately needs a recharge
• Venture capital to China’s electric vehicle startups has dropped nearly 90%
• The man who ushered in China’s battery vehicle boom wants to do the same for fuel cells
• Inside BYD—the world’s largest maker of electric vehicles
• Beyond the Tesla bubble: The future of electric cars is being scripted in China
• Beijing’s subsidy cut is starting to hurt China’s largest electric car company
• China’s breaking up the EV battery monopoly it carefully created

-Tesla's popularity in China and Hong Kong

• Nobody wants a used electric vehicle in China, unless it’s a Tesla
• Tesla’s sales never recovered after Hong Kong cut a tax break

-China insider joke

• Porsche and BMW are known as “broken shoes” and “don’t touch me” in China
• China’s new “car-eating,” traffic-straddling bus is a safety disaster in the making

-Autonomous driving in China

• I rode in a self-driving car on the streets of one of China’s most congested cities
• China’s self-driving efforts need to accelerate

Reporting / China in space

• China’s fallen space lab was a prism for its space ambitions
• China wants to launch the next SpaceX
• Here’s what we know about China’s future space station
• From the moon’s far side, a radio receiver will listen for ancient clues to the universe’s origin
• Watch: This Chinese rocket’s payload included a model SUV made by its sponsor
• China’s carmakers are now sponsoring rocket launches
• A private Chinese space firm successfully launched a rocket into orbit
• What you need to know about China’s falling space lab Tiangong-2
• The small ways NASA still cooperates with China’s space program, despite a ban​Reporting / science and nature

-The dark side

• Exclusive: China publishes more science research with fabricated peer-review than everyone else put together
• The world’s saddest polar bear is just one of thousands of “wild” animals living in malls in China
• Thousands of huge, aggressive dogs are roaming Tibet after their rich Chinese owners abandoned them
• In China, consumers have to be on guard not just against fake food, but also fake news about food
• Ten years after China’s infant milk tragedy, parents still won’t trust their babies to local formula

-The blockchain frenzy

• The world is getting a harsh taste of China’s unsafe medicine supply chain
• Blockchain could fix a key problem in China’s food industry: the fear of food made in China

-Sex-ed, pollution, and fake meat quirkiness

• Q&A: For sex advice, people in China turn to a 65-year-old female BDSM expert at $15 a pop
• This is how much of your life air pollution is stealing from you based on where you live
• Chinese companies are rolling out fake meat mooncakes this Mid-Autumn Festival
• Reporting / technology and social media

-Technology as mass surveillance

• The Communist App Store: China’s endless apps for tracking, organizing, and motivating party members
• WeChat is setting a blueprint for the world’s social networks

Other obsessions

-Language

• No one in China knows the “Chinese proverb” Ivanka Trump tweeted for the US-North Korea summit
• “What kind of rubbish are you?”: China’s first serious trash-sorting rule is driving Shanghai crazy

-Propaganda

• Why China isn’t as skillful at disinformation as Russia

-State policing

• For China, a shackle in battling the new coronavirus is its information control
• Jack Ma and Elon Musk are pretty worried about a looming population collapse
• The future of #MeToo in China hinges on a lawsuit against the country’s most famous TV presenter
• Child-abuse scandals are reminding China’s middle class of its lack of power

Reporting / movies

-How deep-pocket Hollywood gets China wrong

• Disney’s “Mulan” is not the feminist Mulan Chinese girls recognize
• Chinese moviegoers think “Crazy Rich Asians” is really not that Asian

-...And gets it right by accident

• Why audiences in China are loving Green Book
• In Obama’s “American Factory,” Chinese viewers glimpse their own labor problems

-Lastly, the non-Hollywood productions that get China right

• China’s next box office hit? A dark comedy about smuggling in cancer drugs from India
• China’s in love with a Bollywood movie about a Muslim girl’s struggle to live her dream

Reporting / overseas

• Vietnam is reducing carbon emissions by transforming pig waste into energy

...And finally, Echo in the news

• Google honors the tragic life of an adventurous Taiwanese female writer
• The brave, tragic adventurer who inspired generations of Chinese girls to adopt her nickname