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Covert officer paid and directed far-right Belgian politician for more than three years
...Hong Kong’s chief executive John Lee said in a speech at the event that “what distinguishes and sustains Hong Kong is our ‘one country, two systems’ framework”, a reference to the special administrative...
...Additional reporting by Joe Leahy and Wenjie Ding...
...The signatories included Democratic former secretary of state Hillary Clinton, Republican former deputy secretary of state John Negroponte and Dennis Blair, a former national intelligence director and retired...
...“He did that very successfully and he showed a remarkable ability to listen and learn and he had a broad range of talents,” Leahy said....
...Xie Zhenhua, who previously worked closely with his US counterpart John Kerry as a part of their climate change working group, has long been expected to step down after he suffered a stroke last January....
...John Thornhill They’re just rejecting the idea outright. Madhumita Murgia Yeah. And part of the reason for this is that Leahy is a pretty big AI doomer....
...Biden also told Xi about his concerns about a Chinese company’s ownership of TikTok, according to John Kirby, the National Security Council spokesperson....
...The slick ad from China’s feared spy agency, the Ministry of State Security, opens with the shadow of an agent walking through a dark tunnel, a scene reminiscent of the cover of a John le Carré novel....
The passing of Tibet’s spiritual leader could spark one of the most extraordinary stand-offs in global politics
...John Demsey, former Estée Lauder executive, says: “I believe the positioning work led by the new team, coupled with the expansion to brand equity, building distribution like Sephora, has made the connection...
Joint language does not condemn Moscow’s invasion after China refused to repeat critical wording
National crowning risks being overshadowed by discord over Ukraine war and absence of Putin and Xi
Chinese president’s absence viewed as setback for divided forum and for host Narendra Modi
China’s president will send his deputy to next week’s summit in New Delhi
...“It gives the lie to common prosperity,” John Burns, an honorary professor of politics and public administration at the University of Hong Kong, says of hukou....
...Additional reporting by Joe Leahy and Wenjie Ding in Beijing...
...Anders Sandberg, senior research fellow at Oxford university's Future of Humanity Institute, sets out some of the ideas developed in the Extropians mailing list while Connor Leahy, co-founder of Conjecture...
...John Lam, head of China and Hong Kong property research at UBS, said it could help anchor price expectations in the biggest cities....
...On Wednesday, White House National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the administration was watching the situation “with concern.”...
...US climate envoy John Kerry said the world’s biggest polluters had agreed to resume stalled talks on global warming ahead of the UN COP28 summit, as Washington and Beijing try to re-engage after a year of...
...Raimondo’s visit follows recent trips to Beijing by other US cabinet officials, including secretary of state Antony Blinken, Treasury secretary Janet Yellen and climate envoy John Kerry....
...joe.leahy@ft.com, demetri.sevastopulo@ft.com Additional reporting by James Kynge in London and Edward White in Seoul...
...John Kerry, President Joe Biden’s special envoy for climate change, is expected to be the next senior American official to travel to China....
...“The party’s position in society and the party’s position globally — they’re insecure,” said John P Burns, emeritus professor at the University of Hong Kong....
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