Asia

HealthChina tells the WHO that known germs—not a new novel virus like COVID-19—are behind surge in kids’ pneumonia
BYBloomberg
AsiaChina’s real estate crisis has helped punch a $37 billion hole in the balance sheet of one of the country’s largest shadow banks
BYLionel Lim
AsiaTaiwan opposition’s hopes for a unity ticket fall apart hours before the registration deadline, shaking up the race ahead of January’s election
BYLionel Lim
AsiaJapan’s new tallest skyscraper is also fat—sprawling enough to fit the mixed-use demands of post-COVID city life
BYNicholas Gordon
AsiaBaidu reveals expectations-beating earnings and touts its new ChatGPT-like AI models, amid leadership chaos at U.S. competitor OpenAI
BYLionel Lim
TechNvidia warns that sales to destinations like China, the target of Biden’s chip controls, will ‘decline significantly’
BYIan King and Bloomberg
FinanceOil-rich Saudi Arabia is shelling out for the world’s top sports, but can Mohammed bin Salman buy himself an auto industry?
BYChristiaan Hetzner
SuccessThe UAW scores another raise for non-union members as Nissan gives a 10% raise to 9,000 American factory workers
BYKeith Naughton and Bloomberg
ConferencesRejecting the season-to-season model is why Lululemon can keep innovating, says CEO Calvin McDonald
BYLionel Lim
AsiaHong Kong Disneyland just opened first ‘Frozen’ attraction as part of Disney’s $60bn theme park and cruise expansion
BYZen Soo and The Associated Press
AsiaAustralia’s second-largest telco loses its CEO after a network outage that hit almost 40% of the country’s population
BYLionel Lim
PoliticsBiden tells Asia-Pacific leaders ‘we’re not going anywhere’ as U.S. looks to build economic ties—and ‘de-risk’ from China
BYColleen Long, Aamer Madhani, and others
AsiaA series of bad news stories—including an abandoned cloud spin-off plan—wipe billions from Alibaba’s market cap
BYLionel Lim
LeadershipXi’s dinner message for Elon Musk, Tim Cook and Ray Dalio: China ‘will not fight a cold war or a hot war with anyone’
BYMichael Martina and Reuters
AsiaThe White House is glad Xi is even thinking about returning pandas to U.S. zoos: ‘We would absolutely welcome them back’
BYReuters
SuccessThe UAW won a raise for more non-union workers as Subaru agrees to hike pay for all U.S. plant workers
BYAbhirup Roy and Reuters
CommentaryDon’t listen to the gloomy headlines: A new generation of Bay Area innovators is about to soar
BYBob Fisher
Politics‘Planet Earth is big enough for the 2 countries to succeed’: Xi and Biden shake hands, talk for 4 hours and strike a hopeful tone
BYChristopher Bodeen and The Associated Press
PoliticsXi and Biden aren’t just meeting with each other in San Francisco—They’re both talking to the world’s biggest CEOs, too
BYColleen Long, Aamer Madhani, and others
PoliticsHow Biden and Xi, who go back 12 years to when they were both vice presidents, got to a yes on pandas and many other things
BYChris Megerian, Zeke Miller, and others
ConferencesIKEA focuses on the little things when localizing products to new markets—like mattress stiffness
BYNicholas Gordon
AsiaChinese corporate leaders worry a push to have babies could hurt gender equality: ‘If someone has to sacrifice in the family, it’s always the woman’
BYLionel Lim
PoliticsBiden and Xi meeting will take place at a historic country estate outside San Francisco featured in Jennifer Lopez’s ‘The Wedding Planner’
BYJanie Har and The Associated Press
AsiaElon Musk and Satya Nadella are among the CEOs lining up for face time with China’s Xi, APEC’s biggest business kingmaker
BYThomas Black, Dina Bass, and others
AsiaElon Musk cryptically wished a ‘speedy recovery’ by Narendra Modi official after Tesla CEO misses key meeting over India factory
BYChristiaan Hetzner
AsiaIndia is nearing China as the U.S.’s largest source of international students, as enrolment comes close to pre-pandemic levels
BYLionel Lim
AsiaBiden to host Indonesian president at the White House to discuss EVs, the Middle East, bonds between 2 of the world’s 3 largest democracies
BYChris Megerian and The Associated Press
CompaniesElon Musk wants India to drop EV import tariffs before he opens a factory there. PM Narendra Modi may give him what he wants
BYChristiaan Hetzner
AsiaAlibaba and JD’s decision to withhold Singles Day data punctures last chance to see a China consumption revival this year
BYLionel Lim
AsiaElectric-vehicle batteries need nickel, and Indonesia has the biggest reserves. Now it wants a partnership with U.S., and the Biden admin is listening
BYTrevor Hunnicutt, Ernest Scheyder, and others

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