A little more China in your bowl
Not many people in the western world eat Chinese food for breakfast. Until now. On Wednesday Bright Food announced it had bought 60 per cent of Weetabix Foods, parent of the famous British breakfast...
View ArticleChengdu charm meets the London taxi
Further evidence of the PR savvy of the city of Chengdu. Having courted western journalists in Beijing with fondue and foie gras, the city is now making a tourism push in London during the Olympics....
View ArticleChina fashion hits London
Although China is by far the world’s largest exporter of clothes, its wares are almost all sold under foreign labels. This is now changing, with Bosideng, the Chinese fashion brand specialising in...
View ArticleChinese and Brazilian wine: hello UK
“Made in China” is a familiar mark on many products in the UK, but not imported wine. That is about to change, as Waitrose has announced that it will become the first British supermarket to stock...
View ArticleUK hopes to treble Chinese tourists
London retailers keen to lure wealthy tourists from other European capitals have welcomed an £8m government campaign to treble the number of Chinese visitors to the UK over the next three years as part...
View ArticleBYD’s dream: a green London, please
Troubled Chinese car and battery maker BYD (Build Your Dreams) aims to supply London with its first fully electric taxis. BYD has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with greentomatocars, a “green”...
View ArticleChina: crunching the UK charm offensive
From the news coming out of the UK over the last few days, you might think the government had only just realised that China was the world’s second biggest economy. There’s the move to make it easier...
View ArticleChina: a taste of Britain
Hello China China’s distressingly frequent food quality scandals are bad news for Chinese citizens but may be good news for UK food exports – so long as China can be persuaded to eat foods it has never...
View ArticleGuest post: turning UK-China rhetoric into reality
By Leslie Young of the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business The past few weeks have seen a significant uplift in UK-China relations. After a long diplomatic freeze, a warming of relations between...
View ArticleGuest post: the route to better relationships with China lies along the Silk...
By Raffaello Pantucci of the Royal United Services Institute A gentle rapprochement is under way between China and the United Kingdom. After almost two years in a diplomatic freeze, David Cameron...
View ArticleXinjiang trade raises doubts over China’s “Belt and Road” plan
By Raffaello Pantucci and Anna Sophia Young The vast Chinese northwestern frontier region of Xinjiang may serve as a useful early indicator of how Beijing’s much-touted “Belt and Road Initiative” (BRI)...
View ArticleChina’s lure for international students surges
By Luke Nolan, Student.com China’s magnetism as a destination for international students is intensifying as Chinese universities climb the global rankings and the number of people who study the Chinese...
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