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...“[T]he Philippines has abandoned the current administration’s understanding with China on the Ren’ai Jiao issue,” a foreign ministry spokesperson said....
...Matt StollerDirector of Research, American Economic Liberties Project, Washington, DC, US...
...But the listing has proved complicated for American banks because ChemChina was placed on a US government watchlist of companies with ties to the Chinese military....
...Second, by cutting ties with the entrepreneurial Chinese private sector, the US is pushing such companies into the arms of a partner they have previously tried quite hard to avoid: the communist Chinese...
...In the 19th century, Honoré de Balzac initiated the trend for capacious interlinked novels depicting the peccadilloes of French bourgeois society with his multi-volume La Comedié humaine....
...“By the 1870s and ’80s, such coats had become part of the respectable bourgeois wardrobe.”...
...In May 2018, three years after ChemChina’s $7.7bn takeover of Italy’s Pirelli, the chemicals group’s founder and chair Ren Jianxin celebrated the companies’ “wonderful marriage” as he hosted the tyremaker...
...The decision to use taxpayer money to bail out a commercial entity, even one with such close historic ties to her party, nevertheless “contradicts everything she stands for, everything she believes in”,...
...The US and many of its allies have expressed strong concern in recent years about Huawei’s global expansion amid worries that the company has ties to China’s military and facilitates Beijing’s cyber espionage...
...Still, the conclusion of Meng’s case put an end to a drawn-out legal battle that had served to exacerbate fraying ties between China and the US and Canada....
...I think the exhibition is a successful attempt to represent this sacred spirit which ties us all together.”...
...He seems more moved by the cavernous subterranean engineering and the massive new underground car park with its careful concrete seismic detailing and steel ties than he is by the mesmeric view....
...Huawei has asked a US court to overturn a Federal Communications Commission ruling that the Chinese telecoms equipment maker poses a security threat to the country because of alleged ties to the Chinese...
...Plenty has changed since our first meeting; Putin invaded Ukraine, Russian yachts and jets are being seized, UK companies, lawyers and accountants are scrambling to cut ties....
...The looks were certainly classically bourgeois, but with a hyperbolic twist....
...The US charged her with fraud after allegedly misleading UK-based bank HSBC in 2013 about its ties with a subsidiary operating in Iran....
...(FT) Deal snitches Deutsche Bank executives alerted authorities to one of the bank’s own property sales — to a company with ties to the Kremlin — after federal investigators had already begun investigating...
...China’s ByteDance is looking to boost its chances of winning a digital banking licence in Singapore by partnering with an investment group with ties to one of the city’s powerful business families....
...Although the US has charged Ms Meng with bank fraud — they allege she misled HSBC about Huawei’s ties with a company called Skycom — the underlying case alleges Huawei improperly did business with Iran,...
...Mr Ren’s decision to restrict Huawei’s employment of US citizens is a pointed reminder....
...Ms Meng told the bank during a meeting in Hong Kong in 2013 that Huawei had cut ties with Skycom, a company operating in Iran....
...Mr Ren said his own military background proves nothing: “It’s true that I was once a soldier, but that does not mean that Huawei has ties to the military.”...
...He has long advocated strong commercial ties between Canada and China, telling Bloomberg shortly after the arrest of Ms Meng: “I think there remains lots of business to be done together....
...One of the beneficiaries of this transfer-rich environment was Ren Zhengfei, Huawei’s founder....
...She showed how money determines status, and how the latter ties all of us in knots. Muir’s book provides some useful yardsticks....
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