Hints and tips:
...Beijing’s increasingly aggressive foreign policy and military posturing towards Taiwan, alongside its repression of minority groups at home, have prompted western governments and companies to distance themselves...
...Shortly before midnight, the channels cut away to Putin, standing in front of a group of Russian soldiers, as he went on a bleak 10-minute tirade about “traitors”, “western lies”, “neo-Nazis”, plots to “...
...Lord Stewart Jackson, former Tory MP and chief of staff to David Davis when he was Brexit secretary, ventured: “As it stands at the moment, no it won’t.”...
...and to a degree better armed and equipped,” said Anthony Davis, a security analyst with Janes....
...Through interviews with seven sanctioned Russian oligarchs and other sources, a picture emerged of a group of oligarchs embittered by both Putin and his western foes, which they believe have scapegoated...
...Russia is making “minimal at best progress,” said one senior US defence official. “In some cases, quite frankly, the best word to describe it would be anaemic.”...
...Here was the true spirit of rīvus, conceptualised by the Sydney mixed-media group Cave Urban....
...Alex Barker is the FT’s global media editor....
...Introducing the Texas two-step The “Texas two-step” is best-known as a country and western dance popularised in southern US states, writes the FT’s Jamie Smyth....
...But with most western nations steering clear of its vaccines, Sinopharm’s best hope of adding to its list of buyers lies in Asia and Africa....
...hacks on western utilities such as energy systems....
...“Sanctions aren’t going to have any impact in the immediate future — they’re a band-aid response at best, tokenism at worst,” says Davis from Janes....
...Melissa Davis: This is unlikely....
...It’s not forbidden to take a private group, but she thought it wise to keep the radical nature of her tour groups quiet....
.../ From John V Baldwin, Cernobbio, Italy...
...Snap SECTOR: SOCIAL MEDIA / HQ: SANTA MONICA, US Snap was hit by a freeze in the digital advertising market when the pandemic first took hold but the social media group has since recovered to post record...
...HSBC has some discussion about V and W shaped recoveries; its own model resembling “the Nike swoosh” is made by combining a proper V in mainland China forms and more of an L among Western European and American...
...Some of the best will be featured in FT Globetrotter, our new city guides for business travellers....
...Social media is a useful tool for someone, like her, “committed to communication and to change”....
...The UK media is contributing to this pressure, as we are already hearing the media punditry warning about growing public debt. Few economists share these concerns....
...Presumably the upkeep is the best way to keep pesky peasants such as myself away from the private lands. Nonetheless, it’s impressive....
...Paris Match: Activist targets media group Lagardère There are some large French companies run by family owner-managers....
...One way may have been social media....
...Mick Davis, the former boss of Xstrata, looked set to the get the job, until a group of big shareholders blocked his appointment....
...If you bond by drinking after dark, you may want to shift to breakfast or lunch, or drink within a group setting and know your limit....
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