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...The call is the latest effort to stabilise ties since Xi, the president of China, agreed in San Francisco to resume military engagements that China halted after then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited...
...Several people familiar with the situation said Biden last year sent Burns to Capitol Hill in an effort to persuade then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi not to travel to Taiwan....
...Collectors of the work of early 20th-century English artist and occultist Austin Osman Spare have, up until now, been of a type....
...Robert C AustinProfessor, University of TorontoToronto, ON, Canada...
...The US official said the White House expected defence secretary Lloyd Austin would hold his first interaction with Dong Jun, China’s new defence minister, in the coming months....
...Dong’s appointment paves the way for a possible meeting with Austin this year....
...China had cut off military dialogue following then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan last August....
...This season, menswear has embraced the gimlet-tinged mood of Cecil Beaton’s diaries, the roman à clefs of Evelyn Waugh and Nancy Mitford, and the posturing of their 1920s peers....
...Her early work reads like a punchy, lyrical combination of the magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez and Isabel Allende mixed with the doughty British outlandishness of, say, Rose Macaulay or Nancy Mitford...
...meeting suggests the US and China are making some progress towards improving relations between their militaries after Beijing closed formal communication channels in August 2022 after then-House Speaker Nancy...
...Investors are pressuring the company to halve a $3bn valuation it hit after raising $46mn in a Series C financing round this year, said people familiar with the matter....
...The senior official said the US raised the importance of re-establishing the military-to-military channels that China shut down after then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan last year....
...China closed several military-to-military channels last year after then-US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan....
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...Nancy Mitford’s 1954 essay “The English Aristocracy” was one of the first to codify a system: her work was based on an article by Professor Alan S C Ross, of the University of Birmingham, in which he argued...
...“Taiwan continues to raise the need to procure capabilities to deter a kinetic attack as well as address grey zone and blockade scenarios, highlighted post then-speaker [Nancy] Pelosi’s trip last August,...
...Email Jo at jo.ellison@ft.com Find out about our latest stories first — follow @ftweekend Letter in response to this article: If at first you don’t succeed, fail in style / From Robert C Austin, Professor...
...Sunday sees the high adrenaline and prestige races – plus the Settrington Cup, the cute but cutthroat kids’ race where children between the ages of six and nine race in Austin J40 pedal cars....
...“Of course, we’re working with them because they are integral players in enabling the energy transition,” says Austin....
...Exclusive: A C$400bn Canadian pension fund has stopped making private deals in China and is closing its Shanghai office, following other large investors in dialling back activity in the world’s second-largest...
...Jeffrey Johanns is associate professor at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin...
...Austin emphasised “the need to responsibly manage competition and maintain open lines of communication” in his meeting with Wei, according to the Pentagon....
...In a final display of pique, Wei Fenghe, China’s defence minister, refused to answer calls from Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin. Next, the cognitive dissonance....
...The White House did not respond to a question about who in the military — defence secretary Lloyd Austin or General Mark Milley, chairman of the joint chiefs — held that view....
...“We have MA-1 jackets from Vivienne Westwood, Liam Hodges, Calvin Klein, Junior Gaultier, CP Company, Raeburn, Paul Smith, Burberry, Left Hand and even Tommy Nutter for Austin Reed,” says Professor Andrew...
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