Hints and tips:
...Martin Wolf’s excellent article “The UK needs leaders who dare to be bold” (Opinion, February 5) correctly points out that the British people are disillusioned with their political leaders....
...Hu said western media’s labelling of Lu as a “wolf warrior” was “offensive”. After all, Hu said, Lu’s manner during the interview had been “very polite”....
...Analysts suggested the Chinese foreign ministry’s response represented a repudiation of the remarks from Lu, who has built a reputation as one of the “wolf warrior” diplomats known for their combative style...
...US law firm Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz has named Steven Green, Randall Jackson and Meng Lu as new partners....
...Lu, who is in the fourth year of his posting in Paris, has typified Beijing’s recent fashion of “wolf warrior” diplomacy — named after a set of films in which Chinese special-operations fighters defeat western-led...
...Such officials were dubbed wolf warriors after a series of films depicting Chinese special forces soldiers....
...Also, Nestlé, PepsiCo and Kimberly-Clark among companies reporting resilient quarterly sales despite price rises....
...The mood in many developing countries, however, was more anxious, reports Martin Wolf....
...A final note about the recordings that the actor Ben Miles made in 2020 of the Wolf Hall trilogy by the late, greatly mourned novelist Hilary Mantel....
...Zhicong Lu of City University of Hong Kong’s department of computer science said location information could help establish the credibility of information being posted and help combat misinformation, but...
...France has summoned Lu Shaye — the Chinese ambassador to Paris seen as one of Xi Jinping’s aggressive “wolf warrior” diplomats — to protest against “insults and threats” against French members of parliament...
...Another expert in the field is the academic Kimberly Clausing. And what’s she up to?...
...Lu Xiang, at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, agrees with Mr Le that “the [Trump administration] has attacked China frantically since March”, when Covid-19 began surging across the US....
...China appears to have now leashed its so-called “wolf warrior” diplomats, named after a blockbuster Chinese action film featuring a special ops agent who prefers to shoot his way out of conflicts....
...Listen to the podcast where Martin Wolf tells Fred Studemann about the books we should all be reading this winter For Economics books published in the first half of the year, see Martin Wolf’s mid-year...
...As the FT’s Martin Wolf explains, the unprecedented actions governments and central banks have taken so far to ease the impact of the virus on the economy are at risk of reinforcing “heads, I win; tails,...
...“It’s a Pandora’s box . . . the consumer loans industry has been booming so fast,” said Lu Weiting, chief executive of consumer debt collection company Cuimi Technology....
...Here are a few highlights, courtesy of BAML’s China economists Ting Lu, Xiaojia Zhi and Larry Hu: The analysts consequently cut their Q2 GDP growth forecasts from 8.5 per cent to 7.6 per cent....
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...And in the World of Warcraft section – with its distinctive neo-medieval architecture and sombre colour scheme – visitors are greeted by a sweaty young man on stilts wearing a wolf’s head....
...Shi Cheng: Short Stories from Urban China, edited by Liu Deng, Carol Yinghua Lu and Ra Page, translated by Eric Abrahamsen, Nicky Harman, Julia Lovell, et al, Comma Press, RRP£9.99, 224 pages An anthology...
...Martin Wolf: Why US voters are suing Dr Obama An ambulance stops by the roadside to help a man suffering from a heart attack. After desperate measures, the patient survives....
...Well, there are still the same old prejudices about women chasing younger men (or any men, or many men), as the recent furore surrounding Mrs Kimberly Quinn, 44, reminds us....
...The Station log book (a view from an LU supervisor) is also an interesting take on trying to get things back to normal....
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