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...The raid on Mintz was the highest profile of moves by Chinese authorities this year on consultancies that also included US group Bain and expert network CapVision and which were carried out at a time when...
...Additional reporting by Edward White in Seoul, Joe Leahy and Sun Yu in Shanghai and Primrose Riordan in Hong Kong...
...Additional reporting by Joe Leahy in Beijing...
...The Capvision raid was part of a series of investigations this year on foreign consultancies in China, including Bain & Company and due diligence group Mintz, whose five local employees were detained in...
...says Bain....
...Fain also invited Joe Biden to join the picket line, a move that could force the US president to choose a side in the labour dispute....
...Wayne County was expected to be a hub of support for the “uncommitted movement”....
...China’s security agents have recently turned their attention to consultancies, raiding US groups such as Bain & Company and Mintz last year, as well as expert network provider Capvision....
...Americans are increasingly happy about the economy but reluctant to give credit to Joe Biden, according to a new poll for the Financial Times....
...Some Chinese clients are now reluctant to use Bain....
...UAW member Mark Brewer, who works in a Ford assembly plant in Wayne, Michigan, approved of Biden’s visit and said it may have bolstered the union’s bargaining position....
...In March, Mintz Group employees in China were detained following a raid by authorities, while in April, China’s state security services carried out raids on management consultancy Bain’s Shanghai office....
...A series of raids and sanctions on US consultancies such as Bain & Company and Mintz Group, along with semiconductor giant Micron Technology, have put more pressure on companies operating in China....
...Deep in rural Minnesota, surrounded by fields of corn and soyabeans, Joe Biden tried to explain the phrase he hopes will kick start his bid for re-election next year....
...Law firm leaders have also watched with horror as Chinese security officials carried out a series of raids on foreign companies in recent months, including western advisory firms Mintz Group and Bain....
...There are plenty of people who would like to invest in the energy transition,” said Joe Scalise, global head of energy and natural resources at Bain. “The question is, who’s going to pay for it?”...
...Joe Gebbia, Airbnb co-founder I have a collection of midcentury modern chairs....
...Fain also asked Joe Biden to join the picket line, an invitation the US president appeared to accept late on Friday....
...Letter in response to this editorial: Tibet was always part of China in ‘mandala’ system / From Randhir Singh Bains, London IG2, UK...
...Bain & Co offers the same, and BCG pays $2,000 less, according to Management Consulted....
...Auto workers and the top three Detroit carmakers are hurtling towards a strike that could deliver a multibillion-dollar blow to the US economy and complicate Joe Biden’s re-election campaign....
...The move was echoed in a survey by the Bain consultancy showing oil and gas executives now expect a slower transition to net zero....
...A former chief executive of management consultancy Bain & Company, Romney co-founded and led its private equity spin-off Bain Capital....
...“[UAW’s deal] is a sign of changing times,” said Marick Masters, a labour relations professor at Michigan’s Wayne State University....
...He says that efforts to repair relations during a November meeting between US president Joe Biden and Chinese leader Xi Jinping went sour after the US imposed export controls on high tech....
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