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...The V&A’s new show, Tropical Modernism, revolves around this odd confluence....
...“Three years ago, I was selling more western art to China, now I’m selling more Chinese art,” he says. Among his contemporary artists hitting the spot just now are Fan Jing and Hao Shiming....
...“It will be a European-market Seagull, a new Seagull,” BYD senior executive Stella Li told reporters, including the UK’s Auto Express, in Shenzhen....
...The western TikTok, meanwhile, has introduced a one-hour daily time limit default for teens but this is cosmetic: it can simply be turned off....
...The newer generations want to express themselves without fear.”...
...While the law would only have applied to Montana — a western state with a population of just 1.1mn — the case has reflected a broader global debate around security concerns with the app, which has drawn...
...Two years ago, Igor Matovič, then Slovakia’s prime minister, was asked in a radio interview what his government had promised Moscow in return for supplies of Russia’s Sputnik V Covid vaccine....
...2016 painting “Untitled (Woman Looking Left)” (£2.8mn-£4.5mn) is a contemporary example strikingly relevant in its exploration of black identity, critiquing the marginalisation of black figures within western...
...It added: “We want to reassure Montanans that they can continue using TikTok to express themselves, earn a living, and find community as we continue working to defend the rights of our users inside and outside...
...That he made it now speaks to the acute strains being felt both in Ukrainian army depots and on western defence factory production lines....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on September 29. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The European Commission will ban its staff from using TikTok, as western governments express safety and security concerns over the growing use of the Chinese-owned social media app....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on January 24, 2023. ©2023 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
...The Korean Wave opens September 24, V&A ‘Make, Break, Remix: The Rise of K-Style’ by Fiona Bae, (Thames & Hudson), will be published in the UK & Ireland on 22 September 2022...
...American Express followed on Sunday, adding that it would also terminate all business operations in Belarus....
...Republican Senator Josh Hawley accused Apple of being so dependent on China that it can no longer express basic American values....
...Britain is the first western country to impose such penalties on Bain for its role in the “state capture” scandal in South Africa and there is already pressure on the US to follow suit....
...The government has dismissed suggestions that the link is not necessary as express rail links already exist to Shenzhen....
...It kept emperors (Charles V, then Philip II) at suspicious arm’s length but wilted when their stewardship stiffened into close-up domination....
...Let us know what you think at imani.moise@ft.com and sid.v@ft.com. A programming note: FintechFT will take a one-week break in observance of the Easter holiday. The next issue will be April 25....
...American Express, PayPal, Japanese card network JCB and Western Union have also suspended services in Russia, as well as digital wallets Apple Pay and Google Pay....
...The first time I listened to the song “Bizarre Love Triangle” by New Order was the same night I watched Wong Kar Wai’s extraordinary film Chungking Express....
...However, livestream shopping has not yet taken off in western markets as it has in China....
...Yet Paula Rego at Tate Britain rang out magnificently for its radicalism — no painter has more inventively subverted male tradition to express women’s experience....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on April 26 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc. All rights reserved....
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