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...It was announced last week that Qin Gang, a former spokesperson who went on to become president Xi Jinping’s ambassador to Washington, will succeed Wang Yi as foreign minister....
...Additional reporting by Wang Xueqiao in Shanghai...
...At a meeting in China in July with Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, the head of the Afghan Taliban Political Commission, Abdul Ghani Baradar, was quoted as falling in line with China’s demands....
...“There have been intense discussions about monetary and fiscal policy,” said Wang Jun at the China Center for International Economic Exchange, a government think-tank in Beijing....
...Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang confirmed that Yang Jun, as Mr Yang is referred to by authorities in China, had been arrested on suspicion of spying....
...There’s much more focus on the private sector this time,” said Wang Tao, head of Asia economics at UBS. “That said, these measures don’t usually work in the short term....
...This does not work for China,” said Geng Shuang, foreign ministry spokesman. “Second, we advise the US to return to reason and not to act in anger, which will ultimately hurt themselves.”...
...Ding, head of Greater China economic research, Standard Chartered Bank (HK) Ltd; Tetsuji Sano, chief Asia economist, Asia Research Center, Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management (Hong Kong); Tao Wang, head of...
...The agreement to meet comes a day after Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi called on both parties to hold direct talks....
...of Duke University and Shuang Zhang of University of Colorado, Boulder, find that officials who claimed to have suppressed population growth were rewarded....
...But Shuang Ding, an economist with Citi, reckoned that Beijing would soon halt the currency’s climb as the focus shifts to doing more to support growth....
...“Policymakers have resolved to slow the expansion of credit,” said Mark Williams and Wang Qinwei, analysts with Capital Economics....
...“Monetary policy usually has six to nine months of lag,” says Ding Shuang, economist at Citi....
...Euromonitor cites Wahaha’s Pi Er Cha Shuang, a beer-flavoured carbonated tea. Customers, lured by the novelty, rushed to buy it – but few made repeat purchases....
...The powerful commission’s so-called shuang-gui (or “twin regulation”) powers allow it to detain party officials indefinitely....
...It was not clear, however, when precisely Mr Wang joined his colleagues in detention....
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