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...US officials often dealt directly with Xie Feng, Beijing’s former top official on American affairs....
...Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has called on developing countries to work towards replacing the US dollar with their own currencies in international trade, lending his voice to Beijing’s efforts...
...“Nobody is expecting structural change in the relationship, of course, the ‘cold war’ will still be there,” said Da Wei, director of the Center for International Security and Strategy at Tsinghua University...
...Separately, he promised $500mn over five years for a fund to tackle deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, watched by Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva....
...Yet neither the US nor China want to be seen as impeding progress and Kerry maintains dialogue with his Beijing counterpart Xie Zhenhua....
...Chen Mei, who was archiving articles on coronavirus, was detained in late April while Xie Wenfei was taken into custody after publicly raising questions about the disappearance of other journalists....
...Ofo’s founder, Dai Wei, warned that it was teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, Wukong and Bluegogo have already folded....
...Wei in 2012....
...Royole is backed by A-list venture capital firms such as Knight Capital and IDG Capital as well as Chinese financial services tycoon Xie Zhikun....
...Xie Yaxuan at China Merchants Securities expressed concern that the US’s additional tariffs target the high-tech industry, China’s most important sector in the long run....
...Among the trades detailed in the latest complaint is Leonardo da Vinci’s “Salvator Mundi” (c1500), which Bouvier bought for $83m in 2013 and sold to Rybolovlev for $127.5m in the same year....
...Tenor Shi returned with soprano Wang Wei and another dash of Mahler in a touching selection of “Letters between Lu Xun and Jing Song”....
...In 2015, another “Nu couché” was sold at Christie’s in New York for $170.4m to the Chinese billionaire Liu Yiqian and his wife Wang Wei....
...It sold for $72m ($81.3m with fees) over the phone to Rebecca Wei, Christie’s Asia president....
...Among those he has bought in depth are the Beijing artists Liu Wei and Wang Guangle....
...This winter Beijing residents have been mocking what many call Mr Cai’s san da hun zhao, or “three dumb ideas”....
...“This is the most energetic place in the country,” said Li Wei, founder of Uyess, an online platform providing home appliance repair services....
...“I’ve had contemporary drawings — for example, a large drawing by Jenny Saville that was itself based on a drawing by Leonardo da Vinci....
...Since assuming power three years ago, Chinese president Xi Jinping has done nothing to discourage the spread of a popular nickname — Xi Da Da or “Big Xi”....
...“It’s not good news,” said Su Wei, adding he believed all developed countries had a legal obligation to contribute to the UN’s Green Climate Fund....
...“Xie and Su Wei [Mr Xie’s negotiating colleague in the climate talks] ask us again and again, which figure is more reliable and more reasonable?”...
...Trammel, Hal Finney, Wei Dai, and Neal King, Vladimir Oksman & Charles Bry) and concluded that the real Satoshi Nakamoto is probably… da, da, duh… Nick Szabo after all....
...His predecessor, Xie Yalong, and Wei Shaohui, the former national team captain, received the same punishment, also for taking bribes....
...Societe Generale’s Wei Yao writes that growth in fixed-asset investment for the property sector grew strongly in January-February....
...Andy Xie and Patrick Chovanec have both hypothesised that China won’t lift the restrictions on buying investment apartments in the bigger cities any time soon because it would probably fail to magically...
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