Hints and tips:
...Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair both secured multiple terms in Britain but left office with abysmal approval ratings, under 25 per cent....
...TB: “Call me Tony.” LB: “That’s OK, Prime Minister.” TB: (persistent) “Call me Tony . . . I mean, we do know each other.”...
...One of the stranger invitees was a bright-eyed Labour politician named Tony Blair....
...“Li Peng became Deng Xiaoping’s scapegoat,” said Bao Pu, publisher of Hong Kong-based New Century Press and son of the most senior official jailed after the protests....
...William “Tony” Keswick, Henry’s father, was mayor of Shanghai’s foreign settlements a hundred years later....
...The British government, under Tony Blair, refused to provide the funds that Mugabe wanted to help redistribute white land to impoverished black farmers....
...In 2015, Tony Abbott, then Australian prime minister, told German chancellor Angela Merkel that his government’s policy on China was based on a mixture of fear and greed....
...Starting in December 1978, then leader Deng Xiaoping initiated an era of “reform and opening up” under which China welcomed foreign investment and introduced free market reforms....
...“The critical questions are whether Xi will be able or willing to use [his] accumulated power effectively and to what purpose,” Tony Saich, an expert on the Chinese leadership at Harvard University, wrote...
...“I do not expect dramatic changes after the congress,” says Tony Saich, a Chinese politics expert at Harvard University....
...So is he a would-be latter-day Deng? “I met Deng with president Mugabe I think around 1977 or 1978. Let me assure you I am not Deng.”...
...to how Deng Xiaoping did it....
...It will be his first visit to China — and his first meeting with Xi Jinping since he joined the “immortals”, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping, by having his ideas enshrined in China’s constitution....
...It most closely reminds me of negotiating the return of Hong Kong in 1983-4 with Deng Xiaoping’s China, talks for which I was the desk officer. Britain was then, too, at a dramatic disadvantage....
...Deng Xiaoping had died four months earlier and it fell to Jiang to undo the first of the “unequal treaties” that had accompanied China’s decline in the previous century....
...“Oh shit, oh shit,” wrote Deng in one memo to herself, unearthed by Murdoch. “Whatever why I’m so so missing Tony. Because he is so charming and his clothes are so good.” This charming man indeed....
...What was once among the premier modern art museums in China, showing the likes of English sculptor Tony Cragg, now attracts few visitors....
...The list also nods to the emergence of ambitious economic powers in China (Deng Xiaoping, Jack Ma) and India (Lakshmi Mittal)....
...Among others, the visages of Bill Clinton, Gerhard Schröder, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Bertie Ahern and Kevin Rudd all decorate Mr Yan’s walls....
...Abbott (2010) “Rupert Murdoch’s wife Wendi Deng is a Chinese spy....
...If they are not, it is Deng who stands to lose most face....
...Tony Blair’s most useful legacy was nothing more tangible than a way of seeing the world....
...(Financial Times) COMMENTS AND CURIOS Why Draghi was right to cut rates (Financial Times Wolf) Finding out where Janet Yellen stands (WSJ) Rusal’s LME dilemma (FT Lex) Tony Hayward: Wildcatting on the...
...Rupert Murdoch has filed for divorce from his third wife, Wendi Deng Murdoch, saying their 14-year marriage had “broken down irretrievably”....
...In a recent TV interview, he called Murdoch’s former wife Wendi Deng “a spy”, and caused further controversy by suggesting the government was designing its paid parental leave scheme “just so that the prime...
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