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James Kynge

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4 years

Extraordinary that the UK is broadening its offer of visa rights to 3m people from Hong Kong, up from 300,000 pvsly. Beijing likely to be incensed.

UK widens visa rights offer to almost 3m Hong Kong residents

Home Office clarifies pledge and sets government on collision course with China

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WHO needs now to publish the source of Mr Kedros’ allegations. Who in Taiwan, what did they say, were the Taiwan authorities involved? Without supporting evidence, these allegations are worthless.

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WHO chief @DrTedros says he's been getting racist attacks and death threats from Taiwan.

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China’s economy is slowing but its ambitions to lead an alternative world order are burgeoning. This piece took many weeks to research.

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I think I prefer this uncropped version on balance because it puts into context the magnitude of what “tank man” did. A stunning act of bravery or, quite possibly, he was so angry he didn’t care for his personal safety.

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"There is enough empty property in China to house over 90m people. Thus, countries such as France, Germany, Italy, the UK and Canada could fit their entire populations into those empty Chinese apartments with room to spare." FT Big Read.

Evergrande and the end of China’s ‘build, build, build’ model

Valued at $41bn in 2020, the spectacular unravelling of the property group exposes deep flaws in Beijing’s growth strategy

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China's challenge to the US-led world order in one quote, from FT Big Read on BRI. "That’s the difference,” he added. “They [the Americans] were security-centric, military-oriented. The Chinese are economic centric, development-oriented.”

Ten years of China’s Belt and Road: what has $1tn achieved?

The massive infrastructure initiative has granted Beijing additional influence, but critics question whether the cost has been worth it

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4 years

Please stop with the rumours. We need verified reporting, clear sourcing and critical assessment of sources.

Inconvenient Truths by Jennifer Zeng 曾錚真言

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4 years

Rumor has it that police in #Shanghai say that the #CCPVirus situation is very bad, schools won't open as late as Sep. 传上海警方内部曝疫情真实情况直到9月也开不了学(组图)

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China dresses this up as a threat but many in the UK will cheer. Why on earth would the U.K. want it’s critical infrastructure built by a country that constantly uses commercial leverage to threaten?

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China threatens to pull plug on new British nuclear plants | News | The Sunday Times

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Xi's visit to Moscow showed more clearly than ever that China's prime aim is to counter the US-led west. The Ukraine war is subsidiary to this objective in Beijing's eyes. Beijing-Moscow is a new axis of authoritarianism.

China is tightening its embrace with Russia as it builds bulwarks against the west

Bilateral ties between Beijing and Moscow represent an intensifying axis of authoritarianism

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Important shift: China is ramping up wealth redistribution. It will target high income groups and people with “unreasonable income”. Strap in for the ride.

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Pony Ma left out of NPC. Says more than 1,000 CCP promises on how private enterprises continue to be valued. Truth is they are valued till they start to amass any power.

Tencent boss Pony Ma left out of China’s signature political gathering

Absence from National People’s Congress highlights sidelining of internet giants

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1 year

Taiwan hosts at is own peril people like Liz Truss who have no power and no understanding of the complexities of the region.

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Liz Truss is going to Taiwan. "Taiwan is a beacon of freedom and democracy. I'm looking forward to showing solidarity with the Taiwanese people in person in the face of increasingly aggressive behaviour and rhetoric from the regime in Beijing."

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There is "no tech scene" in China. Unbelievable ignorance. And kind of shocking too that the CNBC anchor let it pass. In several aspects of tech, China is now ahead of the US.

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“There is no tech scene in China and Russia … there are no software companies." It’s really shocking the level of reality distortion from the CEO of a leading U.S. defensetech company. Have noticed this type of attitude is fairly common in SV.

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Beijing’s ability to draw crowds onto the streets has not diminished 30 years on.

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Maybe its time #China re-thought "wolf warrior" diplomacy?

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FT scoop: "Princeling" son of Liu He, China's finance czar, was rain-maker behind Skycus Capital - an investor in some of China's biggest tech companies.

Firm founded by son of China finance tsar invests heavily in tech

Skycus Capital holds stakes in companies affiliated with Tencent and JD.com

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5 years

Some personal news - got my work visa in Hong Kong yesterday, so I’m legal! Great to be back in the region. Working on tech, investment and US-China mainly these days. Please get in touch!

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Important point here. CCP, as ever, is camouflaging its true convictions for a foreign audience but make no mistake: the Chinese means “split their heads and make their blood flow”....the roar from the crowd tells you all you need to know about levels of anti-foreign nationalism.

Sergey Radchenko

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The English translation of Xi Jinping's anniversary speech: . Has a very mild version of the phrase 头破血流. Translates it as "collision course".

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This line sums up China's grave dilemma over Ukraine, by @gideonrachman "Xi’s decision to embrace Putin now looks likes a miscalculation. It is hard to play the long game if you tie yourself to a reckless gambler."

Xi Jinping faces a fateful decision on Ukraine

China’s ‘no limits’ partnership with Russia risks open confrontation with the west

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4 years

Can this be true? Did he really say China is the “guarantor of the international multilateral order”? We should seek clarification from Paris.

Stuart Lau

@StuartKLau

4 years

Laurent Fabius, president of France’s Constitutional Council & ex FM, told Wang Yi he “regretted” unilateral annulment of Paris climate accord & Iran nuclear deal. He put China on par w/ EU & France as “guarantor of the international multilateral order”, acc to Chinese govt.

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Excellent long piece on Jack Ma today by @rwmcmorrow and Sun Yu.

The vanishing billionaire: how Jack Ma fell foul of Xi Jinping

Alibaba founder’s dramatic rise and fall illustrates China’s wary embrace of tycoons who power economic growth

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3 years

China issues a five-year regulatory blueprint to strengthen control over the economy. This is important stuff.

China unveils five-year plan to strengthen control of economy

Communist party seeks to extend oversight of important sectors in latest step of regulatory assault

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#China 's retreat from the "Belt and Road" marks more than a pull back from the "project of the century". It reveals a step change in the country's relationship to the outside world. @Jonthn_Wheatley

China pulls back from the world: rethinking Xi’s ‘project of the century’

Chinese overseas lending has fallen sharply amid a reassessment of the Belt and Road Initiative

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1 year

China’s $240bn bailout bill to prevent defaults among “Belt and Road” countries just keeps growing. Btw - this is not altruism but self-preservation. My piece here.

China grants billions in bailouts as Belt and Road Initiative falters

New study attempts to capture total rescue loans from world’s biggest bilateral creditor

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Chinese poem written more than 1,000 years ago about events that took place more than 2,000 years ago wipes 9.8% off share price of Chinese food delivery company on Monday. Long arm of Chinese history.

Meituan shares slide after chief posts ancient poem

Words posted by Chinese tech giant’s boss interpreted as challenge to authorities and Xi Jinping

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3 years

#China 's overseas lending falls off a cliff as a multitude of problems with the Belt and Road Initiative pile up and other factors also take their toll @Jonthn_Wheatley Excellent data by @KevinPGallagher

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A wonderful, touching piece here about Liu Chaowei, the FT bureau's longstanding driver in Beijing - who is retiring. Kudos to the excellent @YuanfenYang for telling this so beautifully.

From the hutong to high politics: a Beijing driver’s journey

Over 24 years at the FT, Liu Chaowei has enjoyed a front-seat view of changing China

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4 years

It needs to be an independent probe. WHO is compromised because of its funding from China and its track record during the early stages of the outbreak. An in-house whitewash will further damage WHO's sullied reputation.

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A team from the @WHO is on its way to China to set up an investigation into the origins of the coronavirus

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3 months

My review of two excellent new China books with rather different takes on Xi Jinping and what really animates Beijing.

China, Xi Jinping and the making of ‘one people, one ideology’

Two stimulating books shine a vital light on the thinking behind the superpower

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4 years

Now WHO is acknowledging its falsehoods with regard to China and its early reporting of the outbreak. Not before time.

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2 years

Brilliant analysis by @gideonrachman "The idea of an economic severance of China from the west, once unthinkable, is beginning to look more plausible."

Xi Jinping faces a fateful decision on Ukraine

China’s ‘no limits’ partnership with Russia risks open confrontation with the west

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3 years

Great FT scoop: Jack Ma's private jet log shows him continuing to travel all over China, dispelling rumours that he fled #China or is under house arrest.

Jack Ma’s private jet records show billionaire is down but not out

Alibaba founder appears to be freely moving around China despite troubles with Beijing

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2 years

Good call @ShibaniMahtani If the FCCHK can't stand up for freedom of speech then what is it but another dining club?

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It is an award that meant something not only to Hong Kong but journalists across Asia who covered some of the most consequential developments in the region last year -- from the Taliban's return to power in Afghanistan to the continued plight of the Uyghurs to, yes, Hong Kong

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Soviet-style jokes are one sign of a creeping cynicism.

China has fallen into a psycho-political funk

Fragile consumer confidence is just one sign of a malaise that is not merely economic

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9 months

Important story.

China expands farmland in bid to cut foreign food reliance

More than 170,000 hectares have been reclaimed in a drive to cut imports amid global supply chain fears

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3 years

Private school owners in China are being forced to hand over their institutions to the state as fall out from Beijing's crackdown spreads.

Private school owners forced to hand institutions over to Chinese state

Fallout from Beijing’s education overhaul ripples across the country

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6 years

This is now becoming the touchstone issue for China and its place in the global community, if such a thing can said to exist. Most surprising, though, is that so few countries dare to make public comments, including Islamic countries.

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U.N. says it has credible reports that China holds million Uighurs in secret camps

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A host of issues are feeding a growing consensus: China’s troubles are not transitory but rather long term and structural in nature.

China’s playbook no longer involves a big stimulus bazooka

Beijing is adjusting to a more parsimonious future — but are its people?

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5 years

Exclusive @FT interview with Ren Zhengfei, founder of @Huawei in which he stresses self-reliance - cutting back on using US technology - in response to being "riddled with bullets" by US. @YuanfenYang @suelinwong

Huawei: still fighting for survival despite Trump truce

The Chinese telecoms group is determined to accelerate efforts to become self-reliant

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4 years

This, for friends in Europe and US, is vitally important. Now is the time to take universal precautions, not in two weeks time when the number of cases has risen. Masks and hand sanitizer everywhere, mandatory on public transport and at work.

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4 years

Apple is seeking to deepen its supply chain in China, even as the US urges decoupling. Scoop from Tech Scroll Asia this week. Free sign up to newsletter here:

Why Apple wants to deepen its China supply chain

Tech Scroll Asia, your guide to the billions made and lost in Asia tech

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3 years

Chinese company pledges to donate $1.5bn to charity. Shares jump 22%. More proof that politics, not the bottom line, is the bigger driver of capital markets returns.

Pinduoduo shares jump 22% after pledge to donate profits

Chinese tech group will give away $1.5bn following Xi Jinping’s calls to address inequality

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4 years

But I thought we were in a “golden era”. No? Oh I see, it was golden for as long as U.K. gave China everything it desired.

Global Times

@globaltimesnews

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As the China-UK bilateral relationship faces renewed tensions over HK and Huawei issues, Beijing will likely seek to compartmentalize rising tensions with London by striking back in areas where the UK steps out of line, Chinese analysts.

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3 years

Most reactions to a piece I wrote with Sun Yu on China's formidable "techno-authoritarian" state are that it will fail or create dystopia. Personally, I think it has a high chance of sustaining CCP rule.

China and Big Tech: Xi’s blueprint for a digital dictatorship

By controlling a huge volume of data, Beijing is conducting a grand experiment in 21st century authoritarian governance

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Sinicization of Islam in China. Excellent FT investigation.

How China is tearing down Islam

Thousands of mosques have been altered or destroyed as Beijing’s suppression of Islamic culture spreads

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China's military spending now 5x that of Japan.

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North Yorkshire coast 2020 new year’s eve.

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More than 75% of the foreign money that flowed into China’s stock market in the first seven months of the year has left, with global investors dumping more than $25bn worth of shares. Another fine piece by @KangHexin

Over 75% of foreign money invested into Chinese stocks in 2023 has left

Traders wait for signs of strong economic rebound before buying back in

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#China 's digital RMB will give Beijing the power to monitor all transactions at an individual level in real time. But will other countries want to use something that gives the CCP such an extraordinary surveillance reach?

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China Inc's latest export - a world of debt.

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5 years

Deranged. The CPC, which the US is battling, is not synonymous with “Chinese civilisation”. And the CPC is opposed by many non-US actors both inside and outside China. Washington needs to get a grip of what it is opposing, why and how.

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@PMCroninHudson Nothing to say this is PLA (looks like police), not clear it is in Shenzhen, don’t know when it was shot - and we can’t tell what they may be preparing for, if anything. Let’s be disciplined, particularly at times like this.

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A "Big Read" that we've been working on for several months, particularly in the China-Russia angles, is published here. But what are the chances of a genuine diplomatic and economic reset for China?

Xi Jinping’s plan to reset China’s economy and win back friends

Amid a chaotic exit from Covid lockdowns, China is looking to reduce its international isolation and boost its growth rate

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4 years

The evidence of Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore and South Korea - the best in class responders to this pandemic - show that wearing a mask sharply reduces transmission. #WHO somehow doesn’t get it.

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#WHO Spreads Mask Disinfo... How does wearing a mask spread infection?

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This is definitely several notches more strident than before. It could be that China is limbering up for a fight. I bet sales of US products in China will be hit.

Not Picking Quarrels Panda 🐼

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"You want the war? We are ready!" It sounds almost North Korean-ish. #tradewar #China #Chinese #贸易战 #CCTV #CGTN #搬起石头砸自己的鸟

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Terrific scoop here by the FT's Sun Yu. Jack Ma's spat with Beijing was in part a conflict over data protection.

Jack Ma’s Ant defies pressure from Beijing to share more customer data

Central bank frustrated with drip feed of user information in crackdown following pulled $37bn IPO

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5 years

At risk of being annoyingly pious here - but this is the big story of our time, not Trump, or Brexit or US-China trade wars. It IS happening and it could be catastrophic for us all.

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Research out yesterday shows “a stunning 95% decline in the oldest, thickest ice” — “the glue that holds the Arctic together” — in three decades. The great thinning of the cryosphere hastens its pace.

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As eloquent an epitaph to those Lordly subjects of “elite capture” by China in the U.K. as there could be.

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Huawei's UK PR agency gets Lord Browne's surname wrong in their email confirming his resignation

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Great piece on Singapore and money inflows from mainland China. @mjruehl

Singapore asks banks to keep quiet on wealth inflows during China boom

Tacit directive from regulators comes as wealthy Chinese people funnel funds into city-state

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How will the WHO deal with this? It advised against ANY travel restrictions with China when the epidemic was raging in Wuhan, this helping to spread the virus around the world. Now China is shutting its doors to all non-Chinese.

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Beijing is treading a very fine linguistic line but it is getting clearer and clearer that China wishes to limit its "friendship" with Russia. My piece here.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine leaves China facing a difficult balancing act

Beijing’s stress on the importance of sovereignty suggests strains in a special relationship

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2 years

Very interesting perspectives here by @ruima @China_Digital and @J_B_C16 Really worth a listen for anyone interested in China and tech.

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- Why did the Chinese government target big tech? - How have US sanctions accelerated China's semiconductor development? - Where should the UK's strategic priorities lie in tech? 🎙️ @ruima , @China_Digital and @J_B_C16 discuss China's tech landscape.

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Listen to this and understand why Beijing has long regarded the EU as a poodle.

Stuart Lau

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4 years

Asked what he plans to do as a next step on the Hong Kong national security law issue, EU's foreign policy chief @JosepBorrellF conceded "there is nothing on the agenda" apart from reaching out to Beijing. "We will continue trying to put pressure on the China authorities."

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EU agrees to the China Daily's censorship of an Op-Ed written by its Ambassador to Beijing....and then says it supports freedom of expression. It can be one or the other but not both.

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“The EU delegation decided nevertheless to proceed with the publication of the oped with considerable reluctance” (and on behalf of the 27 other Ambassadors!)

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I don't want to sound too sanctimonious - but plenty of people in the UK still need to understand this.

J Boyce | Posting from China since 2005

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Save your breath.

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China to India: be more friendly or else!

China's envoy urges India to properly handle differences and bring ties back on track

Chinese Ambassador to India Sun Weidong Friday called on China and India to implement the consensus and handle differences properly to bring bilateral ties on the right track.

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Excellent Panorama, published on youtube now, on China's Covid-19 cover up @BBCCarrie . The immense courage of Chinese whistleblowers and citizen journalists really comes across.

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@TomTugendhat @CommonsForeign @Civitas_UK and the FT story on same topic from 2017.

Inside China’s secret ‘magic weapon’ for worldwide influence

Xi is quietly ramping up a Communist party department to expand Beijing’s soft power

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3 years

The contrast in treatment between this and #Kovrig and #Spavor is an outrage.

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“Ms. Meng receives regular private painting lessons and massages. She has gone on private shopping sprees at stores. She spent Christmas Day at a restaurant that opened just for her, her husband, her two children and 10 other guests.”

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China's assertive actions seem to be alienating much of the world. Is this a gross miscalculation or is Beijing playing a much longer game?

China, Hong Kong and the world: is Xi Jinping overplaying his hand?

Beijing’s push to impose tighter legal control over territory has generated international backlash

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@DrTedros @WHO @g20org @KingSalman How do you react to China closing its borders to non-Chinese? do you recall WHO failing to issue ANY international travel restrictions with China when the virus was raging in Wuhan?

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Important piece. @Tabby_Kinder on how big international investors are cutting their exposure to China because of upsurge in regulatory risk.

Big investors plan to cut exposure to Chinese assets on regulatory worries

Pension funds and insurers among those becoming more cautious, Invesco says

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6 years

Key point: it looks like #China 's development banks - CDB and ExIm - may lend according to "international standards", holding open tenders, doing environmental impact studies etc. This is potentially a very significant shift.

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@ftchina

6 years

China development banks expand links with foreign lenders

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China moves to impose "Great Firewall" of internet controls on Hong Kong. Check out the latest issue of #techAsia newsletter

China imposes Great Firewall on Hong Kong

#techAsia, your guide to the billions made and lost in Asia tech

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3 years

#China is ramping up the intensity of a largely secret programme to foster self-reliance in chip making. Another brilliant exclusive by @ChengTingFang and @Lauly_Th_Li leading the #techAsia newsletter this week.

Inside China’s secret plans for chip self-reliance

#techAsia, your guide to the billions made and lost in Asia tech

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4 years

This video, though not new, is representative of China’s thinking on what to do with Hong Kong and what Beijing’s security state thinks of Hongkongers.

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9 years

China's "silk road" loans already huge, tied to Chinese corporates. http://t.co/or9KH8oNTo http://t.co/9DtCQgvj9S

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Evergrande saga gets murkier and more shambolic.

Evergrande bosses face ‘severe punishment’ after securing early redemptions

Executives exited funds as Chinese developer delayed repayments to retail investors

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An extraordinary life.

Gao Yaojie, Chinese doctor and Aids activist, 1927-2023

The gynaecologist fought for victims of the HIV epidemic spurred by Henan province’s rapacious ‘blood economy’

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Is this intended to stir up another hornets nest in US-China relations? Or is it sincere? Lecturing Americans on the meaning of democracy doesn’t seem an obvious way to launch a charm campaign.

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Chinese Ambassador to the U.S. Qin Gang said a fundamental misunderstanding and misjudgment about China by some Americans is to define China-U.S. relations as a battle between democracy vs. authoritarianism. #China #US #CGTNAmerica

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@VictorDCha @NBCNews @realDonaldTrump Both “cheaters” with absurd egos. Beautiful friendship.

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US attorney-general: “The ultimate ambition of China’s rulers isn’t to trade with the United States. It is to raid the United States."

Barr warns against corporate America’s China ‘appeasement’

US attorney-general suggests executives advocating for Beijing may be deemed foreign agents

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UK PM #TheresaMay refused to sign MOU endorsing China's #BeltandRoad Initiative in spite of strenuous behind the scenes wrangling by Beijing. Keeps UK in line with EU, Germany, France and the US. US in particular is increasingly wary of BRI.

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Extraordinary story here on the extreme pressures that #China can exert on top-flight journalism by the excellent @LetaHong

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Just putting this quote up here on Asia's fintech industry from an FT feature by @mjruehl and I. “This is a revolution for the whole world. Asia is 12 years ahead of the rest of the world."

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The FT's special report on Nigeria is out. Such an important country with a booming start-up scene that is harnessing digitisation to energise key sectors. With many thanks to @lolashoneyin @suleimana @BJRewane @kola_aina

Investing in Nigeria

New president comes in with a reformist bang. Oil and gas fall short. China’s ambitions. Foreign investors worry. Debt ‘stress’. Solar ‘mini-grids’. Farmers go digital. Vibrant Lagos start-ups....

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Deeply reported and thought provoking piece on the future of Hong Kong by the excellent @ThomasHHChan

How China’s slowdown is deepening Hong Kong’s ‘existential crisis’

The territory’s growing reliance on China has turned into a distinctly mixed blessing — with questions of how long hallmarks of its own system can endure

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Combating the type of shameful racism seen in England after their Euros defeat requires that all social media, not just Twitter, switch to real name accounts that are traceable to phone numbers and addresses. Legal punishments are needed.

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China's massive EV subsidy policy is coming home to roost. Excellent piece by @YanmeiXie

China’s cull of EV overcapacity will bring little relief to Europe

Beijing’s tried-and-tested industrial policy has a track record of creating fierce export juggernauts

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Excellent FT Big Read here from Sun Yu and @tmitchpk on the CCP's 100th anniversary.

The Communist party at 100: is Xi Jinping’s China on the right track?

The president’s admirers believe he can lead the country to a new era but critics say he has erased all checks and balances

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Important piece.

China’s ‘men in black’ step up scrutiny of foreign corporate sleuths

Raids on consultancies reveal mounting risks of performing due diligence

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BRICS invites Argentina, Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and UAE to join the grouping. Big news. @josephcotterill

Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

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Actually the opposite is true. Hong Kong realised that the WHO was reckless in advising countries to keep their borders open to people from China. They did the opposite, effectively closing their borders to the mainland.