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Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
AIIB in talks over second loan guarantee deal for World Bank
...The AIIB is also in discussions with the Asian Development Bank and Inter-American Development Bank about similar projects, AIIB president Jin Liqun told the Financial Times....
April 2, 2024
US-China trade dispute
US wants allies to cut chip-related China exports amid Huawei alarm
...The US is pushing allies in Europe and Asia to tighten restrictions on exports of chip-related technology and tools to China amid rising concerns about Huawei’s development of advanced semiconductors....
April 25, 2024
FT Live
Innovative Lawyers Awards Asia-Pacific
Celebrating innovations from both law firms and in-house teams in the region
Thursday, 16 MayHong Kong
Asia maritime tensions
Tokyo in talks with Manila over sending troops to the Philippines
...Both developments would have been unthinkable just a few years ago.”...
April 3, 2024
Technology sector
China blocks use of Intel and AMD chips in government computers
...China’s finance ministry, the MIIT and China IT Security Evaluation Center did not respond to requests for comment....
March 24, 2024
News in-depthCommercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd
China’s rival to Boeing and Airbus looks to Asia first
...“It can lay out a foundation for [our] up-and-coming south-east Asian market,” Comac said in a statement on Chinese social media....
April 2, 2024
US-China relations
China warns Blinken US must choose between ‘co-operation or confrontation’
...This was “a false narrative” whose “evil intention” was to curb China’s industrial development, it said....
April 25, 2024
FT Live
The Global Boardroom: 8th Edition
FT journalists in conversation with leaders in business and government
Wednesday, 4 DecemberDigital Conference
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Hong Kong’s bubble tea IPO flop is a sign of the market times Premium content
...Yet among younger Asians, the drink is a modern necessity. Endless variations from strawberry white chocolate to passion fruit keep interest levels high....
April 23, 2024
The FT ViewThe editorial board
Aukus is gathering momentum and adherents
...Some analysts have called for the creation of an Asian equivalent of Nato — a mutual defence pact that would pull together all the Indo-Pacific countries that feel potentially threatened by China or Russia...
April 11, 2024
Currencies
US, Japan and South Korea seek to limit dollar’s rise
...The finance ministers said after a trilateral meeting in Washington on Wednesday that they would “consult closely on foreign exchange market developments”....
April 18, 2024
Art Basel Hong Kong 2024
South-east Asian collectors look beyond Hong Kong’s market
...“All these developments had a diluting effect on the vibrancy of Hong Kong and we are witnessing some Hong Kong players increasing their Singapore presence,” Teng says....
March 23, 2024
InterviewIndian economy
India risks ‘squandering’ demographic dividend, says World Bank
...Ohnsorge said without more reforms to boost employment, such as increasing trade and easing access to land for private businesses, south Asian countries will fail to reach their development targets....
April 2, 2024
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong passes tough new security law
...The bill “is a way to enhance the symbolism of national security prevailing [over] every policy directive . . . in Hong Kong”, said Eric Lai, a research fellow at the Georgetown Center for Asian Law....
March 19, 2024
Vietnam
Vietnam dangles semiconductor incentives to draw foreign companies
...Vietnam has pledged tax breaks and other perks to semiconductor companies to help develop the sector as the south-east Asian country takes on an increasingly crucial role amid the China-US chip war....
February 21, 2024
News in-depthChinese economy
China eases tourist visa restrictions to boost economy
...Offering visa-free access to some European and Asian citizens might also be a subtle way for Beijing to split public opinion in the western-led bloc as it ratchets up its geopolitical tug of war with the...
March 15, 2024
Inside BusinessEdward White
China’s zombie car plant problem
...Albert Park, chief economist with the Asian Development Bank, said the bank had forecast that the number of jobs created in new green industries Asia-wide would outpace losses from declining industries linked...
March 26, 2024
FT Live
TNW Conference 2024 - The Next Web
Europe’s leading tech event for corporates, startups, investors and governments
Thursday, 20 JuneAmsterdam, Netherlands
News in-depthChinese politics & policy
China asserts ‘deep friendship’ with North Korea as Russian influence grows
...The Financial Times revealed last month that North Korean vessels had started to make regular journeys to Russia’s far east to collect oil products in defiance of UN sanctions designed to deter Kim’s development...
April 12, 2024
Chinese trade
Chinese trade rebounds on electronics and exports to Russia
...In the first two months of this year, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations bloc was China’s biggest trading partner, with trade rising 4.8 per cent, followed by the EU, with which trade fell 4.1 per...
March 7, 2024
Markets InsightStephen Roach
It pains me to say Hong Kong is over
...This has driven a wedge between Hong Kong and many of its largest Asian trading partners....
February 12, 2024
Mike Studeman
The US needs a better strategic narrative or it will cede influence to China
...to publicise Beijing’s use of high-altitude surveillance balloons over the sovereign airspaces of the US, our allies and Asian partners....
February 18, 2024
Taiwan
Taiwan war game exposes vulnerability of energy grid to a China attack
...“We have power supply shortfalls even now, not to mention in wartime,” said Liang Chi-yuan, professor at the Research Center for Taiwan Economic Development at National Central University, who led discussions...
March 17, 2024
Gideon Rachman
Japan doubles down on the US alliance as China looms
...Viewed from Tokyo, these developments increasingly look like linked threats....
April 8, 2024
News in-depthNorth Korea
Kim’s rejection of Korean reunification opens perilous new era
...“As Kim’s military programme grows both qualitatively and quantitively, the more offensive or coercive options become available to him,” said Seiler, now a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and...
January 28, 2024
The Big Read
The ambitions of China’s BYD stretch well beyond electric vehicles
...But “becoming a multinational on a very compressed timeline” will not be simple, says Ilaria Mazzocco, an expert on Chinese industry with the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a US think-tank...
April 25, 2024
The Big Read
Will Xi’s manufacturing plan be enough to rescue China’s economy?
...But the Center for Strategic and International Studies describes Chinese state support as “uniquely high”, estimating it at $406bn, or 1.73 per cent of GDP, in 2019....
March 27, 2024
News in-depthNikkei Asia
Cambodia vexes Vietnam with plan to divert Mekong trade via China-built canal
...He is not optimistic about receiving fair treatment, noting: “Where there’s development, there’s also unfair persecution.”...
March 21, 2024

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