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...Jonathan Fenby writes that the scandal surrounding one of Emmanuel Macron's personal bodyguards shows the limitations of the French president's quasi-monarchical style....
...The Water Kingdom: A Secret History of China, by Philip Ball, The Bodley Head, RRP£25, 352 pages Jonathan Fenby is author of ‘Will China Dominate the 21st Century?’...
...Jonathan Fenby, London WC1, UK Miscellaneous How ‘Big Bang’ became common parlance for City revolution “We found ourselves using this Big Bang formula more and more often in our meetings.”...
...The writer is chancellor of the University of Buckingham Letter in response to this article: China and the US don’t need help from Britain / From Jonathan Fenby...
...But this is only a speck on Mr Xi’s horizon – even if David Cameron, the British prime minister, had hailed the talks as signal progress....
...After all, when Prime Minister David Cameron and Nick Clegg, his Liberal Democrat deputy, met the Dalai Lama last year it landed London in Beijing’s doghouse for 18 months. This week was all business....
...From Mr Jonathan Fenby....
...leaders in the world today and you all have profound insight into the global economy,” Mr Xi told the likes of Mike Duke, Walmart CEO, Indra Nooyi, the head of PepsiCo, Muhtar Kent, Coca-Cola chairman, David...
...Right now, says Jonathan Fenby of Trusted Sources, 55 per cent of the world’s pigs live in China. However 90 per cent live in small pens....
...Jonathan Fenby, director of China research at Trusted Sources, an emerging markets research service, told the special report: “In the approach to the leadership transition starting in October 2012, none...
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...As Jonathan Fenby, author of several books on Chinese history, points out, “expel the Manchus” was a rallying cry of Sun’s revolution....
...But, according to Fenby, in Guangdong Sun actually ran a regime characterised by racketeering. “I know he’s this great haloed figure but I have never fallen for the Sun myth,” says Fenby....
...Fenby takes a middle course between those who believe China will “rule the world” and those predicting its imminent collapse....
...Yours sincerely, Jonathan Fenby The writer is China director of Trusted Sources, the research service, and author of the ‘Penguin History of Modern China’...
...david.pilling@ft.com More columns at www.ft.com/davidpilling...
...Jonathan Fenby: Court China, Mr Cameron, but don’t kow-tow Dear Prime Minister Cameron, Though brief, your visit to Beijing on Tuesday on your way to the G20 in Seoul could be the most important foreign...
...The Discovery of Mankind: Atlantic Encounters in the Age of Columbus By David Abulafia Yale University Press £25, 448 pages The mutual shock of the first encounters between baffled Europeans and baffled...
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