Hints and tips:
...Peter Fung’s buying has slowed considerably and the running of the Liang Yi museum has now been handed on to Lynn. She manages it from London, where she is now based....
...“Wang Yi is a man of many faces....
...In China, Zhu Yi, a 30-year-old tech blogger, is emblematic of the new generation of car buyers whose purchasing decisions are based as much around processing power as horsepower....
...The setting, a modest Birkenhead kitchen, looks reassuringly familiar and solid (design by Peter McKintosh)....
...London’s decline: The City needs to return to one of its tenets — taking risks to achieve return, writes Schroders chief Peter Harrison....
...China’s top diplomat meets Putin’s security chief in Moscow Wang Yi and Nikolai Patrushev agreed to oppose all forms of “unilateral bullying” after meeting in Moscow, according to China’s state-run news...
...Ken Price and Ron Nagle, both students of Peter Voulkos, the great liberator of American ceramics, show equally uncanny objects....
...“The point at which we’re at right now is where the rhetoric is meeting the activity,” said Peter Alexander, a managing director at Z-Ben, a fund consultancy in Shanghai....
...In an interview with The Australian newspaper, Peter Dutton said that Chinese leaders had been “very clear about their intent to go into Taiwan” and that Canberra had to improve its ability to deter Beijing...
...“Afghanistan stands at a crossroads,” said Wang Yi, foreign minister, in a video conference with Taliban leaders and representatives from Pakistan, Iran, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan....
...Wang Yi, a Jilin-based trader, said he purchased crops from farmers for Rmb2,200 ($340) per tonne and planned to unload his inventory when local prices hit Rmb2,900 (they are currently at Rmb2,800)....
...I love the volume; it’s shamelessly girly, from another era – an update on Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock....
...Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, said on Thursday that its relationship with the US “was facing its most serious challenge since diplomatic relations were established”....
...Peter Ricketts, former UK national security adviser, said it had been a “mistake” for senior British ministers not to go to Munich....
...Peter Altmaier, Germany’s economy minister, said major EU countries wanted to sign an MoU as a group, not as individual states....
...“This decision will affect the whole investment environment in Australia,” said Peter Drysdale, professor at Australian National University....
...to reset frosty relations with Beijing on Wednesday when Marise Payne becomes the first Australian foreign minister in almost three years to visit the Chinese capital for talks with her counterpart Wang Yi...
...The Lisu show “a strong disinclination” to leave their hills and settle in the lowlands, wrote Danish ethnomusicologist Hans Peter Larsen in 1984....
...Yi Gang, governor of the People’s Bank of China, on Tuesday evening called for investors to “stay calm and rational” and pledged that the central bank would “ensure liquidity and reasonable stability” after...
...“More and more people are willing to pay for content — but they don’t have to pay iQiyi,” said Zhang Yi, chief executive of iiMedia, an internet marketing company....
...“Europe will surely keep its fundamental long-term interests in mind and pursue a China policy that is consistent, independent and forward-leaning,” Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi, who visited Brussels...
...Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, on Thursday hit back at Washington’s threats to more than double proposed tariffs on $200bn in annual US imports from Beijing....
...Alan Peter Cayetano, Philippines foreign affairs secretary, flew to Beijing last week to discuss with his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, a legal framework acceptable to both the Philippines and China....
...Representing China today will be Foreign Minister Wang Yi, however indications so far are that he will not be prepared to make any big new commitments....
...Wang Yi, the Chinese foreign minister, on Thursday said the US was “trying to put pressure on China but we don’t think such an approach will work”....
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