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...Jia Tianhao and his friends thought they would be running a fast-growing tech start-up by now....
...In 2018 dealmaker Ren was abruptly ousted from ChemChina as Beijing manoeuvred to merge it with Sinochem....
...“It’s better for China to avoid direct confrontations with the US and the Five Eyes for the time being,” Mr Ren told the Financial Times....
...That marks a contrast to the bullish confidence of founder Ren Zhengfei, who actively courted foreign media last year....
...Nomura chief China economist Ting Lu put it more starkly, forecasting a “frigid winter”....
...Follow @gabewildau on Twitter Additional reporting by Yizhen Jia in Shanghai and Alice Woodhouse in Hong Kong...
...Additional reporting by Yizhen Jia...
...The second, Lu Jia, was denounced by ultra-leftist students using Cultural Revolution terminology for what they said were his failings on Marxist ideology....
...To those people, China’s self-defence is an offence to Canada,” Mr Lu said....
...But when setting its own standards, Ms Lu says, China uses the stick on foreign companies, often excluding them from discussions....
...Mr Lu did not give details of the possible repercussions. Canada’s main exports to China include pulp and paper products, grains and oilseeds and minerals....
...Strict enforcement of social security requirements would cut corporate profits 2.5 per cent and nominal GDP growth 0.6 percentage points, according to estimates by Ting Lu, chief China economist at Nomura...
...Lu Shaye, China’s ambassador to Canada, is fighting not just for Ms Meng’s release but also for the future of Huawei in Canada....
...Meng Wanzhou, who is also the daughter of Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei, is wanted for alleged bank fraud related to possible evasion of US sanctions on Iran....
...Ren and Mr Ning....
...“Meng’s detention from the beginning was a mistake,” Lu Kang, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman, told reporters on Wednesday....
...The Dunbar property has served as a regular holiday haven for Ms Meng — whose father Ren Zhengfei has an estimated $3.2bn fortune — since the family bought it in 2009....
...“Our optimism and support for esports is long term,” Tencent’s chief operating officer Ren Yuxin told a conference in June....
...Additional reporting by Yizhen Jia Follow @gabewildau on Twitter...
...“Chinese-language media and the Chinese people are one,” Lu Hao, the managing editor of the American newspaper Sino-US Times, told editors at a forum promoting China’s Belt and Road infrastructure initiative...
...Mr Lu built his reputation as the right-hand man to ChemChina chairman Ren Jianxin and was a crucial figure in structuring at least $55bn of overseas acquisitions by the company....
...“There were so many of these companies suddenly doing online finance last year,” said Alex Ren, president of Ping An Group....
...Conductor Lü Jia led his musical forces with a similar formula: the more people involved, the better....
...A columnist named Jia Jia was detained by police and released a week later....
...However, CK Lu, a China smartphone market analyst at Gartner, sounded a note of caution: “To become a truly global tier one player, Huawei must find a way to enter the US market.”...
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