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...In a stunning reversal after protests against Xi’s zero-Covid policy, Chinese officials have begun dismantling the pandemic control system of lockdowns, mass testing, state quarantine and electronic contact...
...Up until the 1995 Merchant Shipping Act, receivers had the power to bear arms with which to “kill, maim or hurt” anybody obstructing their official capacities....
...BYD’s Wang is following in his footsteps....
...She says the plan makes sense in terms of Xi’s ideology and his aims for regime stability and national security. But failure would risk making China a less consequential global economy....
...Nuclear engineering accounts for about 15 per cent of AtkinsRéalis’s business but Edwards said it is the fastest-growing part of the company and takes up half his time....
...But he predicted growing trade frictions as China invested in excess capacity....
...The asylum claims will be processed by Italian officials while applicants are confined to the centres in Albania, and those whose claims are rejected will be held until they are repatriated to their home...
...Additional reporting by Wenjie Ding and Nian Liu in Beijing, Edward White in Shanghai and Cheng Leng in Hong Kong...
...Lee’s office said in a statement that the US was “obliged to fulfil its basic responsibilities as a host” and invite Lee to the Apec meeting “in his capacity of the leader of Hong Kong, China”....
...capacity as a philanthropist....
...His visit resulted in agreements to triple the capacity of an increased number of China-Mongolia border crossings and negotiations over access to the port at Tianjin, south-east of the Chinese capital....
...Yet that only heightens what will be at stake in 2024. Biden has slain the Trump dragon once. In the waning years of his long career, he has made it his mission to do so again. edward.luce@ft.com...
...But on October 7, exactly a week after classes started in 2023, his hopes of completing his degree were shattered....
...This dramatic moment has been long anticipated and cued by Trump himself, who expected it to take place last week. Yet it still retains the capacity to shock....
...— Edward Luce agreed to venture his best guess. Read on to find out! A record 17 readers tied on 19 correct answers in our competition....
...“You just don’t have the same capacity.”...
...His answer is not reassuring. For more on Washington’s bipartisan China consensus read David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria in the Washington Post (here and here) and David Rothkopf in the Daily Beast....
...Wu, in his essay, says four critical groups include officials who worked with Xi in Fujian, Zhejiang and Shanghai, as well as Shaanxi, the northern province where Xi’s family has deep connections....
...China and the US continue to build military capacity in the Indopacific....
...the EU or Nato alone cannot solve, Sam Greene, Edward Lucas and Nicholas Tenzer write for the Center for European Policy Analysis...
...Hours later, officials in Guangzhou announced plans to expand capacity in its makeshift hospitals and other centralised quarantine facilities from 70,000 beds to nearly 250,000....
...Li was born in 1959 in Zhejiang and worked at an irrigation and drainage station in his youth. When Xi governed the province from 2004 to 2007, Li served directly under him....
...Though Biden beat Trump by more than 7mn in the popular vote in 2020, his electoral college victory boiled down to margins of a few thousand here and a few thousand there in states such as Arizona and Georgia...
...I thought about this when I saw Xi and Biden shaking hands in Bali, which was their first meeting since early 2017 in Davos when Biden was on his last overseas trip as vice-president....
...Additional reporting by Edward White in Seoul, Maiqi Ding in Beijing and Anastasia Stognei in Riga...
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