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Social commerce is one of the key trends in China that may have a lasting impact for brands seeking hard-to-reach millennials. Much of this goes through key opinion leaders (KOL) – or ‘wang hong’ in China – via live streaming. This provides live, direct and instant engagement with the host, along with mobile payment and buying suggestions from your social circle – all consolidated within the same social platform. It creates a much more accessible, interactive and convenient consumer experience that combines promotion and conversion. This trend has reached critical mass in China over the past 12-18 months.

This is a trend Ms Freeman has also noticed in her industry, with many real estate agents choosing to leave to find better incomes in resources work.

The difference is what to do about it. Obama pursued diplomacy to rein in Chinese cyber-theft, signing a landmark agreement in 2015 in which the U.S. and China agreed not to hack each other’s economic secrets. The Trump team scrapped the whole idea of engaging China and supporting its economic development as a means of moderating the country’s conduct. This administration’s approach, confrontation and containment, was outlined in Trump’s first “National Security Strategy,” published in December 2017.

In patent applications filed in China in 2013 and 2017, ministry researchers described ways to sort people by ethnicity by screening their genetic makeup. They took genetic material from Uighurs and compared it with DNA from other ethnic groups. In the 2017 filing, researchers explained that their system would help in “inferring the geographical origin from the DNA of suspects at crime scenes.”

One marker of the pace of change currently under way in China was highlighted at the FT’s annual Pharma and Biotech Conference in London in November. To the polling question, “When will China be a significant influencer of innovation?” half the audience answered 2025. This prediction might be surprising to those who have taken their eye off the ball, but the country’s intensive commitment in the last few years to a program of regulatory advancement is swiftly changing the Chinese pharma and healthcare market. So much so, one of the FT conference speakers, Christian Hogg, CEO of Hong Kong-headquartered biopharma company Chi-Med, proclaimed that 2025 is a “conservative” estimate for China’s breakthrough as the world’s pharma powerhouse. 

"New growth will be driven by technological innovation, and for our core search and news feed we continue to see a lot of room to grow."

Chinese search engine operator Baidu beat market estimates for fourth-quarter revenue and profit on Thursday, as its core online marketing business stayed resilient and revenue surged in its Netflix-like streaming service iQiyi.

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And for us the 3% rule is simple, which is this sector doesn't have the ability like the rest of sectors to take out excess capacity. And so you end up having in the sector ROE, the effective trade below book value, the ROE is below the cost of capital to me, which means the sector has too much capacity and the 3% rule is the biggest impediment for it to take out capacity because what you would have in any other industry you saw it from paper and packaging et cetera, you would have activism or shareholders' involvement and governance to actually force M&A, the forced rationalization of capacity and you haven't had that in this industry.

Whether Spurs are prepared to spend that kind of money remains to be seen, but Kessie would certainly fit the bill as a replacement for Dembele.

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- Meanwhile, back at Old Trafford, Manchester United will need to finish in the top four to ensure that Jadon Sancho returns home this summer. That's the Mirror's take on rumours that a bid of £100m could just be too good for Borussia Dortmund to turn down if the player's Ole Gunnar Solksjaer-inspired up-turn continues.