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The Czech Man in China

Before Petr Kellner died last month, he was the richest man in the Czech Republic — in large part because of his Home Credit business...

Charged Up

The last time the U.S. government tried to foster domestic battery manufacturing, its star company ended up being scooped up by a Chinese conglomerate for...

Tencent’s Game

Despite Chinese government resistance, Tencent rakes in more from online gaming than any other company in the world.

Jolly Gene Giant

Last April, as the world fell to Covid-19, one Chinese company was there to offer a helping hand: BGI. But the line between the biotech...

Weakening Links

LinkedIn is apparently being punished by Chinese internet regulators for not censoring aggressively enough — a particularly inopportune setback for the social media giant's parent...

Red Curaçao

Curaçao’s fledgling stock exchange intended to attract Latin American companies seeking to raise money from European investors. Instead, Chinese firms came.

The Yum Model

When one of the biggest fast food brands in the world spun off its China operations, naysayers warned it would miss out on massive growth...