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...Sullivan recently raised the issue in Washington with Liu Jianchao, head of the Communist party’s international department, who some believe will succeed Wang as foreign minister....
...US ambassador Nicholas Burns met China’s commerce minister Wang Wentao on Thursday, following talks with foreign minister Qin Gang on Monday....
...Yellen met Liu He, the top Chinese economic official, in Zurich last month....
...Zeng Yiwu, an associate professor at Hangzhou Normal University, said Alibaba’s rural market had been hit hard by the rise of other ecommerce platforms....
...Co-founder Zeng Bin was replaced by an individual named Sun Yuying as the legal representative of Missfresh’s main Beijing operating company on July 18....
...Li was the second cabinet minister to be ousted this year, after Qin Gang, Xi’s former foreign minister, was replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi in July following a month-long absence from public commitments...
...It removed Liu Kun as minister of finance, whose departure had been signalled last month as part of Beijing’s reshuffle of its economic team....
...“Global expansion is Ant’s top priority this year and the sole engine for its future profit growth,” said Liu Meng, an analyst with consultancy Forrester....
...The remaining 16 and 8 per cent is owned by individuals Liu Yiliang and Xie Rutong, respectively Xie’s business partner and daughter. What went wrong?...
...Liu and He are said to be close because they were classmates at Xiamen University....
...Musk, who also owns Twitter and SpaceX, travelled to China last month and met the foreign, commerce and industry ministers as well as Robin Zeng, the founder and chair of CATL, the world’s biggest maker...
...Former foreign minister Qin Gang was absent from public commitments for a month before he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, last week....
...China’s former foreign minister Qin Gang was absent from public commitments for a month before he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, last week....
...In contrast, Zeng Guang, former chief epidemiologist at the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, warned last week that the latest wave of Covid-19 infections was yet to peak, adding that family...
...The post has been edited to correct the location of Liu’s meeting with Janet Yellen....
...Spokesperson Liu Pengyu said China “cannot but seriously question the independence, openness and transparency of the so-called investigation”....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu in Beijing...
...Zeng was Jiang’s vice-president and his right-hand man. While immensely powerful in their prime, their influence appears to have waned under Xi....
...The apotheosis of Liu’s life-long interest in renaissance art, for instance, took the form of a monumental ink painting made in response to a small Raphael drawing in his own collection, while Zeng’s 2012...
...“Making a breakthrough in semiconductor equipment is the biggest hurdle,” said Zeng Guan-wei, an analyst at research firm Trendforce, who added that fewer than 10 per cent of these machines used in China...
...But Mr Zeng said: “You can’t bypass the police to sue Huawei.”...
...Additional reporting by Qianer Liu and Anna Gross Letter in response to this article: China’s stance on Covid bought time for the world / From Zeng Rong, Spokesperson, Chinese Embassy in the UK London...
...The trend is expected to lead to a “normalisation of pork prices and pig-raising profit”, said CICC economist Liu Liu. Lower prices will be good for Chinese consumers....
...Qin Shao, who teaches modern Chinese history at the College of New Jersey, argued that this made Zhang a problematic figure for Mr Xi....
...Coinciding with this would allow him to declare that China is prosperous and deserves to be a world leader, says Gao Qin, an expert on China’s social welfare at Columbia University....
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