Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
Related Topics
Longi executive says costs would double, job opportunities would be lost and green targets missed
...Soft-spoken, charitable, visionary, an exacting but kindly boss, quick with a smile and an inspiring phrase: not since Jesus Christ Superstar has the West End hosted such a saintly protagonist as the hero...
...The progress made by Chinese companies and regulators in Beijing poses a new challenge to the west, which is already lagging behind China in the development of electric vehicles, according to analysts, and...
...edward.luce@ft.com...
...The local government in Yunnan, a province in China’s south-west, has halted expenditure on more than 1,500 infrastructure projects, according to another document seen by the FT....
...In a little noticed action last month, Biden issued an executive order sanctioning four Israeli West Bank settlers....
...Edward White So BYD has found itself trying to expand overseas, possibly at one of the worst times in terms of Chinese relations with the west....
...The west’s sluggish progress on nuclear — which slowed dramatically after the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan in 2011 — contrasts with a rapid rollout of atomic power in China....
...In the 17th century, guests of Sir Baptist Hicks could retire to the West Banqueting House in Chipping Campden — now rentable via the Landmark Trust — for their “banquet” or dessert course, “to drink rare...
...In Hefei, west of Shanghai, a factory owned by Nio demonstrates this challenge....
Industry says it can help lower costs and enable faster development of electric vehicles in the US and Europe
...A report published on Thursday by Human Rights Watch shows that nearly 10 per cent of the world’s aluminium supply comes from Xinjiang, following a sixfold increase of production in the north-west Chinese...
...problem is that — as Martin Wolf recently pointed out — one of the few things we know for certain is that in the future the balance of population and economic activity will tilt away from the American-led west...
Companies such as BYD and Nio are targeting overseas markets, leaving governments torn between encouraging greater take-up and protecting domestic manufacturers
...But Beijing has also been critical of what it says are rising protectionist behaviour and abuse of trade dispute mechanisms by the west....
...Edwards: That’s right....
...The comments come as the electric vehicle industry, one of China’s few economic bright spots, has been thrust into a trade war between Beijing and the west....
...Finally, Singapore’s Kishore Mahbubani had a clarifying op-ed in the FT on why it is long past due for the west to talk to the rest of the world as equals....
...Xi’s speech comes at a time of rising geopolitical tensions between China and the west....
...Huawei’s relationship with the west was further complicated by the detention in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, the daughter of the company’s founder and presumed heir who faced US extradition charges, and Beijing...
...For many in the west, they will also underline China’s dominance over large swaths of the world’s important resources....
...The starting point is to accept that Trump’s return would be far worse for the “global west” than his first term....
...Many in the west believe China’s leadership at COP is needed to encourage developing nations to agree on a new global emissions stocktake, as well as a new fund for loss and damage....
...The stylised concrete bamboos at Las Pozas resemble the “bamboo” drainpipes at James’s home on the West Dean estate, Monkton House, where he replaced Edward Lutyens’s tasteful, Ionic columns with fibreglass...
International Edition