Lulu Yilun Chen
@luluyilun
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Bloomberg Asia Investing & Real Estate team leader @columbiajourn alum; HKBU lecturer; Author of Influence Empire ; ychen447 @bloomberg .net
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Love the new cover for the paperback version of “Influence Empire”
@discohuw
@HachetteUK
@HodderBooks
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#不能不明白 (can’t fail to understand) now a blocked phrase on Weibo following Li Wenliang’s death
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Amazing to see how these two ladies just exploded over Chinese social media in the span of a few hours. Fan art in the making
#RedBlueCamps
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Found my cell phone cover for the spring season on Taobao
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The two women were on the empty streets for three hours. A 61 year-old pushing her 86-year-old mother down the road in a wheelchair, trying to find the nearest hospital willing to treat a patient with a fever. Now both have passed away
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This heavy weight conversation between Jack Ma & Elon Musk is getting off to quite a start. Two people riffing their own monologues (Elon going on about aliens and the importance of us becoming interplanetary species again) absolute no dialogue here. Jack’s expression says it all
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Citi banker's arrest in Hong Kong caps wave of warnings in the financial industry
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@ManuBaigorri
@david_scheer
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Breaking: Hong Kong airport cancelling all flights for the rest of the day, and advising public to stay clear of the airport. Meanwhile China says HK has come to "critical juncture" and says HK shows sign of terrorism
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Chinese billionaire Jack Ma dropped from public view after Ant’s IPO collapsed. But his spectacular fall from grace has been years in the making via
@BW
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In terms of investment,
#Tencent
might be on of the most prolific globally. 700 portfolios, of which 122 have become unicorns, 63 have gone public. The combined market value of companies in which it holds a stake of >5% is worth more than $500 billion. Quite a finance powerhouse
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The Peking University petition letter has now been stamped on ethereum so it can never be scraped from the web. Meanwhile posts on the same topic are disappearing from WeChat fast. Quite the symbolic move
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The whiplash of the the past week has added to the doubts many Chinese students have about studying in the States
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One of a kind.
@neilhimself
#Sandman
30th anniversary. So many beautiful lines. ❤️ “Everything changes. But nothing is truly lost”
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How China’s WeChat became so powerful it could have posed a real threat to Beijing’s rule via
@BW
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Okcoin and Huobi PRs said they haven't received such notices and are still in operation as of now
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Upping drone and QR code usage to the next level. Drivers trying to get into city required to register their travel history and this is helping speed things up
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China’s move to halt world’s No.1 IPO sends global investors a message: Any financial opening will only be done on terms that benefit President Xi Jinping & the Communist Party
@dantenkate
@endacurran
@Colum_M
@KariSoo1
@LucilleLiu
@SofiaHC1
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John McAfee just said during a public forum in HK that Chinese
#bitcoin
exchange heads are banned from leaving country for now
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Jack Ma: It's great to die
Elon Musk: that's probably true
What did I just listen to?!!
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This Chinese vaccine scandal is becoming as big of a crises as the milk powder incident a decade ago. Public outraged over how a listed company, the nation’s second largest rabies vaccine producer, could get away such misconduct
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People working in HK are ditching their personal phones, and wiping their data when travelling to mainland China. One banker refused to pack black outfits, while another deleted whatsapp
@fion_li
@sharonchenhm
@dantenkate
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Shenzhen is home to China's highest property prices and lowest home ownership rates — and it's a warning for other cities
@emmadonghui
@allenwan290
@ScanlanDavid
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Evergrande's alleged $78 billion revenue fraud stands as one of the worst in history — dwarfing that of Luckin Coffee and Enron via
@markets
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Guanzhou and Shenzhen can now, by law, requisition any private property or transportation tools to help fight coronavirus outbreak ;
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impressive photo capturing the minute French Spiderman scaling Li Ka-shing's iconic building in Hong Kong to unfurl a flag
@edwininla
@pelstrom
@ShawnaKwan
@natlungfy
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Jack Ma's Ant turning into a nightmare for its global investors as China extends crackdown via
@markets
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Jack Ma now trying to bring the conversation down to earth, saying "we need heroes like you but we need people like us, working hard on earth."
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Wow, Tencent posts first drop in profits ever on lower investment gains. Rev is a miss. numbers don't look good
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And the notice is out. Looks like an entire industry could be wiped out. Yuanfudao, zhangmen, zuoyebang, VIPkids, 51 talk, new orientalist, GSX, TAL… the list of companies affected goes on and on
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What proverb is she referring to. Could it be 你行你上 不行别bb 😏
“Those who say it can not be done, should not interrupt those doing it.” -Chinese Proverb
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Citizen Journalist Covering Virus Outbreak From Wuhan Goes Missing
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There's no saving this dialogue, after Jack tried to talk about jobs, tesla, life expectancy, Elon ignores all that and follows up by saying "yeah. I don''t there's enough time. We gotta solve this neuralink thing"
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Consumption downgrade is happening. Latest proof social media celebs who line up for as little as 80 yuan to take fake fux hotel city skyline shots at this place in Shenzhen
#instagramgeneration
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“I don’t think there is consensus among Chinese women that they think it’s offensive. That’s where the disconnect is. It’s been normalized, and it’s going to be extremely hard to fight against.”
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These Chinese blockchain conferences are getting crazier by the day
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Yicai Global (China Business News) biggest official media in Shanghai reporting that city has verbally halted Shanghai
#bitcoin
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A profile of
#Tencent
's Martin Lau, one of the most powerful (& least known) execs in tech
@BradStone
@jimaley
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Chinese regulators summoned executives from Ant and asked them to return the company to its origin of being a payments services provider via
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In the first quarter of 2019, 35% of Chinese web users utilized a VPN, More than half of Chinese VPN users do so for routine activities such as accessing better music and TV shows; 41% of them use VPNs to access social networks or blocked news sites.
In spite of three decades of repression, China’s activists are growing more adept at getting around the government’s cyber regulations via
@BW
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Some really nice data visualization on where the vaccines went on Chinese social media. The companies accounted for pretty high market share in Sichuan, Jiangsu, Shanxi, Xinjiang and the country's rust belt region
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China claims more patents than any country— most are worthless
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Dealmaking at escort clubs thrives in pockets of corporate Asia despite
#MeToo
movement
@rumireports
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One of the hottest bond markets of the past decade is imploding in China — and offshore investors are swallowing almost all of the losses.
Read the Big Take ⬇
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Breaking: Billionaire Jack Ma has given up control of Ant Group, China’s biggest fintech platform, which he helped create via
@technology
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China’s wealthy are handing their money to strangers at illegal underground banks to get their money out of the country
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#Meituan
sits at the heart of a billion-dollar cash burning food delivery battle with
#Alibaba
. Here's a look at one of China's most outspoken CEOs who calls
#Facebook
a copycat and says Jack Ma has an integrity issue
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Bankers with Chinese expertise were once highly sought after in Hong Kong. Now they're facing a bleak job market — and re-evaluating their self worth via
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Of all the Louis Cha commemoration (show off) posts, this one by WeChat founder Allan Zhang prob tops em all
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Hong Kong has remained the world’s least affordable housing market for the 11th year running
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Hong Kong homeowners may sell as much as $19.3 billion worth of property this year when residents emigrate to the U.K.
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While legal experts differ on how often & under what circumstances this could happen, they agree a person residing in the US-or any country that has an extradition agreement w/HK-could be then sent from HK to Mainland China
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Tencent will team up with Pokemon to develop games, an alliance that may help the Nintendo-backed company crack the world's largest mobile gaming arena via
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Wealthy Chinese are exploring bigger investments in private assets to avoid the wild swings in public markets. That dovetails moves of funds like Carlyle and KKR, which are courting Asia's rich as institutional investors recalibrate exposure
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When you cover technology in China, this is what it’s like. The country is in the middle of a massive tech boom, minting billionaires as money sloshes into the sector. There are plenty of rags-to-riches stories. And much-inflated egos.
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@pelstrom
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@vladsavov
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Elon Musk and Jack Ma matched wits publicly for the first time, and boy they didn’t disappoint
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For years, China has claimed the No.1 number of patents annually, what’s unknown is most are dumped by the fifth year (91% of design patents and 61% of utility model patents are discarded in the time period)
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Given all the “innovation” “revolutionary tech” pitches, I’m just gonna pin this tweet here.
#RealityCheck
Interesting how these familiar words were too inspired by the invention of the telegraph
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China is allowing Jack Ma’s Ant Group Co. to start operations at its consumer finance company, the first signs of progress after regulatory crackdowns that torpedoed the fintech giant’s record listing
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China’s government has proposed establishing a joint venture with local technology giants that would oversee the lucrative data they collect from hundreds of millions of consumers
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So the plans out: Jack Ma will step down as Alibaba Chairman a year from now, pass on the torch to Daniel Zhang. Remain on board till 2020 and stay as a lifetime partner
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Across China, companies are telling workers that there’s no money for them. A growing number of people are facing the question of how to pay for their next meals and rent
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Alibaba's Jack Ma pretty cheeky. While he refutes idea that he was pushed out of co. on Investor Day, he doesn't forget to take a stab at rival 's Richard Liu by saying people were asking him what happened, "did something like Minnesota happen"
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Also If passed, the new extradition bill would apply to Hong Kong citizens, foreign residents and even people passing through on business visas or as tourists
Hong Kong has extradition pacts with 30 countries and jurisdictions. Only 9 of those have similar deals with mainland. If the legislation passes, someone transferred to HK could presumably be transferred again to the mainland. via
@bbgvisualdata
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Absolutely disheartening to see so many Beijing migrant workers and their kids being evicted and with just a few days notice and struggling find a place to live as temperatures drop to -5 Celsius
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Mergers and acquisitions by listed Chinese developers in the first quarter slumped to the lowest since the pandemic began
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Hong Kong activists raised HK$6.7 million in nine hours in a bid to plaster global newspapers with ads demanding the withdrawal of a controversial extradition bill ahead of the G-20 summit
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China’s most prestigious science fiction novelist reveals that a lot of his work was written during work hours at a state-owned power plant, sparking debate about the level of slack in the nation’s vast state sector
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China’s cyberspace police order two of the country’s biggest internet corporations to suspend a range of news services via
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It’s a wrap for classes this semester. So many good features from the
#HKBU
students this year. If anyone looking for good freelance work on China, HK related stories DM DM
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Will be covering
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Q2 earnings in about an hour, which is exactly the way I want to spend my Friday night. Highlights via thread here
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Yes it got trolled and bad reviews, but Tencent's Peacekeeper Elite is estimated to have made $150 million of gross revenue in the first month and could generate $1 billion by the end of the year, according to Niko Partners.
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China Evergrande is facing a crisis of confidence among creditors who’ve lent the world’s most indebted developer more than $120 billion
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The journey was hard, but we had a perfect rainbow waiting at the end 🌈
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Chinese drone giant DJI unearths 1 billion yuan losses from employees embezzling funds
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Alibaba Health buys HK$10.6 b worth of assets from Alibaba. That explains the price spike 5 days before the announcement. Some major insider trading?
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Logged on Chinese copycat of
#PUBG
to shoot some heads, found it festooned with “socialist core value” banners. Ingenuity of Chinese co.s
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Finally the two agree on sth. Elon Musk goes back to Ma's point about birth rate. He says the view that the Earth is overpopulated is outdated. He thinks the biggest risk in the future is population collapse. Ma agrees!
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Scoop: Pony Ma’s Tencent has been put on notice. China’s top financial regulators see Tencent as the next target for increased supervision after the clampdown on Jack Ma’s Ant, sources say. w
@cocojournalist
Zhengli & LuoJun
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