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...Michael Wahid Hanna, an analyst at the International Crisis Group, said it was unclear when negotiations would start....
...“Assuming you don’t give in, there’s really no way for China to win unless they have boots on the ground,” says Lt Gen Steven Rudder, who retired last year as head of US Marine Corps forces in the Indo-Pacific...
...Her commanding officer, Lt Col George Starr, 20 years older than Walters, made no secret of the fact that, even though she, unlike him, was a fluent French speaker, he did not like having women in his group...
...Looking at a sample of 381 funds with more than $1tn in assets, Copley calculated that just over a quarter now hold more Chinese and Hong Kong stocks than the benchmark global index....
...Doug Rode, senior managing director at employment agency Michael Page, also said that most candidates were now looking for hybrid working, and would not consider a role before checking an employer’s approach...
...Following the BP deal, Ineos will be a “one-stop shop for everything” in petrochemicals, with greater presence in Asia, and its diversification should mean it weathers the economic downturn, said Graham Copley...
...“Sponsoring sports doesn’t do anything for his chemicals business,” says Graham Copley, founding partner at C-MACC an industry research firm....
...You can email me on michael.mackenzie@ft.com and follow me on Twitter at @michaellachlan....
...“The fact that the rest of the world doesn’t have access to cheap gas has given the US a competitive advantage, which has resulted in billions of dollars of investment focused on exports,” said Graham Copley...
...Michael Robinson, whose chain of computing shops lent Team17 its foundations, is hopefully happy in retirement....
...Mr Trump has also signalled that he remains open to a presidential pardon for Mr Stone, as well as Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort, his other former aides convicted as a result of the probe into the 2016...
...Additional reporting by Diego Cupolo in Istanbul, Sam Fleming and Michael Peel in Brussels, Guy Chazan in Berlin and Asmaa al-Omar in Erbil...
...Another innovation is the website Demaskuok.lt — also known as Debunk.eu — created by a collaboration of the military, journalists and civil society....
...The same ex-soldier, now a pensioner, was also charged with the alleged attempted murders of Joseph Friel, Michael Quinn, Joe Mahon and Patrick O’Donnell....
...His face is now one of hundreds on the outer wall of St Michael’s monastery in the capital, a reminder to those passing by on a balmy Sunday evening that this is a country at war....
...Copley might have given the staging an extra edge, but I doubt it....
...Additional reporting by Michael Peel in Brussels...
...“Ratcliffe has been an extraordinarily good buyer of assets at the bottom of the cycle,” says Graham Copley of SSR, an investment research firm....
...Unsmiling Michael Smiley and dandyish “international asshole” Sharlto Copley cope best with the Tarantinese dialogue alongside Cillian Murphy, Brie Larson and Armie Hammer....
...Ellen Meyers and Michael Copley for S&P Global had a good round-up of the possible consequences....
...Graham Copley of investment research firm SSR said: “I think Akzo has bigger challenges ahead than PPG to justify its current share price”....
...“I think Akzo has bigger challenges ahead than PPG to justify its current share price,” said Graham Copley of SSR, the investment research firm....
...As a former high-school wrestler, Michael McGarry knows a thing or two about pinning down opponents into submission....
...Donald Trump has picked HR McMaster to be his national security adviser, replacing Michael Flynn, who was ousted only 24 days into the job....
...President Donald Trump named Lt Gen McMaster — a three-star army general who commanded troops in Iraq and served in Afghanistan — to succeed Michael Flynn, who was fired after 24 days....
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