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...Admiral Philip S Davidson, commander of the US’s Indo-Pacific Command, has acknowledged that there is “no guarantee” the US would win a future conflict against China....
...philip.stephens@ft.com Follow Philip Stephens with myFT and on Twitter Letters in response to this column: Xi’s China is not what Nixon had in mind / From Zia Ebrahimzadeh, Washington DC, US West should...
...Zhou Xianwang, Wuhan’s mayor, acknowledged government failings in handling the crisis....
...“It is premature to expect an imminent fiscal stimulus from China,” said Zhou Hao, an economist at Commerzbank....
...“Huatai will offer international investors exposure to China’s financial services market,” Zhou Yi, chairman of the brokerage, said....
...The star is the 15th-century painter Shen Zhou’s “Poems on falling flowers in running script” (est $1.2m-$1.8m), a handscroll written when the artist was grieving for a lost son....
...Comment from Katsuwonus on Grown-up Philip Hammond tries to make the best of Brexit One of the many tragic aspects of the Brexit fiasco is that it will absorb one hundred percent of government for the duration...
...Letter in response to this article: Chinese shipping finance: concerns are overblown / From Philip Milner-Barry, Rodskog Shipbrokers, Hong Kong...
...For good measure Zhou Qiang denounced the concept of judicial independence. Campaigners say the move “totally turns back the wheel of history”....
...“Single-manager funds perform better, even after we take higher expense ratios into consideration,” says Mr Zhou....
...Cultural entrepreneur Philip Dodd is holding his Global Private Museum Summit to coincide with the fair....
...Its director, Philip Tinari, says of the boom: “It’s a really interesting moment right now.”...
...“Customers start looking at the Sonys, then come over to the Philips,” the assistant says. “They know that Philips is Dutch and that China doesn’t have any territorial issues with the Netherlands.”...
...He has installed the respected academic and journalist Philip Tinari as director: Tinari told The Art Newspaper recently that Ullens is “a hands-off” manager of the project....
...Additional reporting by Zhou Ping...
...Just before his 16th birthday, Philip Yu left without graduating from middle school to work in a brick kiln, then in a coal mine....
...“Now we’ve got three competing markets, with three competing, slightly different products,” says Philip Partnow, deputy head of investment banking at UBS Securities in Beijing....
...Last year, Edward Zhou, Huawei’s European marketing director, denied that the company received financial support from the Chinese government....
...An avid art collector, Pierre de Labouchere also owns other camel paintings by Chinese contemporary artist Zhou Tiehai, including Joe Camel as Mona Lisa which hangs in his private dining room....
...A watchman called Zhou, however, was anything but nostalgic when I met him at the site of yet another new industrial estate....
...Mao repaid Zhou’s slavish support by refusing to allow Zhou to get treatment for his cancer until it had almost killed him....
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