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...Taiwan’s minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua told Nikkei in November that Taiwanese companies invested more in south-east and south Asia than in China for the first time in 2022....
...This is to “resolve long-term problems in the financial area, and bring all types of financial activities under supervision”, according to Xiao Jie, secretary-general of the cabinet....
...So that is why stringent Covid controls are still in place,” Chen said. This month, Xi attempted to soften zero-Covid restrictions....
...“According to the 20 measures, the overall direction is to loosen up,” says Yu Jie, a China expert at UK think-tank Chatham House....
...“Diplomatically, Beijing hopes it will not become a rival to every country in the west and nor does it wish to look isolated at multilateral fora,” says Yu Jie, a China expert at UK think-tank Chatham House...
...Ho Mei-shang, an adjunct fellow at Academia Sinica, the state scientific research academy, said Taiwan was relatively lucky to have its outbreak now: antiviral medication is available, a milder variant is...
...Yu Jie, a senior research fellow at Chatham House, a UK think-tank, argues that China cannot afford to completely isolate itself from the world due to its export-oriented structure....
...Finally, Mrs Chen, inventor of mapo tofu, joining us from 19th-century Chengdu....
...But for Xi and China the international landscape has only become more hostile under this US president, notes Chen Jie, an international relations professor with the University of Western Australia....
...Cloning features in Chen Qiufan’s dark and sweepingly space-operatic “Debtless”, and post-human body modification in Gerardo Horacio Porcayo’s grimy but sweet “Rue Chair”....
...Chen Mei-ling, who runs a bed and breakfast in a scenic tea-growing region in the mountains of central Taiwan, says his occupancy rates are now higher than before Taiwan closed its borders to foreign non-residents...
...Yu Jie, a senior fellow at Chatham House, a UK think-tank, thinks the prospects for US-China relations are bleak whoever wins....
...Yu Jie, senior research fellow on China at Chatham House, a UK think-tank, says Beijing’s recently-adopted “dual circulation” policy represents a step change for China’s relationship with the outside world...
...Peter Altmaier, Germany’s business minister, wrote last week to his Taiwanese counterpart Wang Mei-hua, urging her government to intervene....
...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....
...“The China brand is being damaged quickly and extensively,” says Chen Zhiwu, professor of finance at the University of Hong Kong. “I definitely think China has overplayed its hand....
...Add for clinching measure the wonderful performances, as husband and wife, of Wang Jingchun and Yong Mei (of The Assassin)....
...Established in 2017, Buzao is an offshoot of Bentu, a studio co-founded by Chen Xingyu, Xu Gang, Peng Zeng and Chen Xingguang in 2011....
...Chen Furong Furong founded lighting, furniture and accessories brand WUU....
...“The government wants to push small players like us out of the market,” said owner Wu Jie....
...In a recent interview, Chen Mei-Ling, minister of Taiwan’s National Development Council, told Nikkei that more than 40 companies across a range of sectors have expressed a willingness to move some production...
...Here's a look at Trump's contributions, as calculated for me by Ferguson and his co-authors Paul Jorgensen, and Jie Chen: The debate over the book will rage on for months, I’m sure....
...Gan Jie, an economist at the Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business in Beijing, estimates that industrial overcapacity accounts for about 7.6 per cent of existing capacity in China....
...Meanwhile Geng Huichang will be replaced as head of the Ministry of National Security by Chen Wenqing, the current party secretary of the coastal province of Fujian....
...Mei Jie, chair of Zhejiang Kailongjia Investment Management, which manages property funds in the southern tech capital of Shenzhen, said his company had decided after the Brexit vote to raise a new £10m...
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