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...Video footage from state broadcaster CCTV showed Baidu founder Robin Li and Qihoo 360 founder Zhou Hongyi at the meeting....
...Beijing bailed out three ailing banks last year and several other lenders have reported spikes in customer withdrawals over the past 12 months....
...The temperature had dropped to 6C on the morning of February 6, when Li, an office worker in her thirties, brought her ailing 63-year-old mother to Wuhan No 4 Hospital....
...The summit happened after many months of secret diplomacy, involving US secretary of state Henry Kissinger and Zhou Enlai, the Chinese premier....
...Related link: China slowdown story has moved into a new phase as government props up ailing private sector – Gavekal...
...The Chinese government has launched a $30bn venture capital fund aimed at upgrading technology in the country’s ailing industrial sector, a move reminiscent of Singapore’s state investment playbook....
...Zhou Jianping, the NDRC official in charge of reviving the north-east, said on Tuesday that the funds could not be considered a subsidy from Beijing to the struggling region....
...These comments do not mean an automatic U-turn on policy, but they raise the threat of scaling back, or even suspending, support for the housing market and ailing state firms....
...The CSF has been a conduit for the central bank to inject funds to prop up the ailing stock market....
...UK-educated Lee, who has died aged 91, developed one of the keenest understandings of China and its leadership on repeated visits after that first trip in 1976, when he managed a brief handshake with the ailing...
...He has simultaneously evoked the legacy of Zhou Enlai and Jawaharlal Nehru by trying to reclaim the 1950s mantle of China as a leader of nations affiliated with neither the US nor the Soviet Union....
...Until then, creditors assumed that China Inc would bail out the ailing company “in the mysterious Chinese way,” says one creditor. That didn’t happen....
...Instead, it has focused on providing short-term liquidity to the ailing economy through its open-market operations....
...Banks’ increased ability to lend will be especially welcome as it comes at a time of slowing property markets and an ailing equity market....
...A recent biography of Zhou, by Gao Wenqian, formerly a party historian who fled to America with his smuggled notes, offers a far more nuanced portrait of Zhou than the conventional one offered by Kissinger...
...It is, as in the often-cited quip about the French Revolution by Zhou Enlai, the former Chinese premier and foreign minister, still “too soon to tell” what the legacy of Tahrir Square will be....
...The ailing author sits immobile in his armchair in the living room, his back to the entrance, too sick to turn and greet his visitors, who can’t see his face until they walk through the room to sit by his...
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