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...Qin was posted to the UK as China’s chargé d’affaires. They began a closer relationship nearly a decade later in Beijing, several people close to Fu said....
...Hi, I’m Katie Martin, the FT’s markets columnist, and I’m looking after this newsletter for a couple of weeks while Harriet Agnew is topping up her vitamin D levels on holiday, the lucky duck....
...I’m still slowly recovering from a very bad cold that I caught at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona two weeks ago — but at least I’ve got my voice back!...
...“I’m a front door sorta guy. I think it was effective and I’d do it again.”...
...“I like to think he thinks I’m a competent guy, but I don’t think I’m Trump’s defence whisperer. That would be fantastic if it was true, I’d love to have that level of influence in US policy.”...
...Drinks are fittingly summery and nod to iconic songs: my favourite cocktail is the “Good Kid, M.A.A.D Litty” (a riff on the Kendrick Lamar album) made with tequila, hibiscus and lemongrass syrup, guava nectar...
...“The timing was right” for A&M to set up a sovereign advisory unit, he says....
...Sadly, I know many more people than Johnson who’d vote for that. Your feedback And now a word from our Swampians . . ....
...“I’m not interested in revolution,” he says. “I’m a capitalist. It was his capitalist aptitude that attracted me, not his revolutionary history.”...
...But I’d say it’s on, it’s on a decent track....
...“I’m so encouraged by their response....
...So I don’t think there was kind of an expectation that we’d already see some immediate impact on inflation....
...who complained that between busy lives, and lingering exhaustion from the pandemic years, they’d lost their ability to read fiction....
...Now, if you had to put a finger on each reason for the sell-off, you’d need your whole hand. But there were a couple of factors in particular that really weighed on traders....
...Recent additions of Skadden star Daniel Dusek in 2017 and Ropes & Gray China M&A veteran Peng Yu this year have reasserted Kirkland’s push to build a stronghold in the region....
...The message: “I’m still here, cooking the dishes we shared together, I’m thinking of you.” Rituals often seem eternal. Everyone has their own picture of the ideal, unchanging Christmas or New Year....
...He’d been forced to dilute his personal stake in Alibaba to keep the company afloat over its first decade....
...“In the situation we’re in now, I want a job where I’m giving back,” she says. “A lot of people won’t come out of the pandemic particularly well, and I want to work somewhere where I can help.”...
...I have more to say about yesterday’s topics — capital flows and private equity — but I’m still doing some reporting....
...Additional reporting by Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai, Sun Yu in Beijing, and Alice Woodhouse in Hong Kong...
...I’m still getting my bearings with a minute-by-minute news cycle after being on book leave....
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