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...“This clearly was a warning . . . against overt acts of factionalism and disobeying Xi Jinping diktats in the run-up to the 20th party congress, and beyond,” said Victor Shih, professor of Chinese political...
...My decision is final on the victor on each of these questions. So a question will go to each team in turn....
...“It is alarming but it has been alarming for some time,” said Victor Shih, professor of Chinese political economy at the University of California, San Diego....
...This crypto-as-baseball-cards argument has been made in court and, this February, was slapped down by New York district court judge Victor Marrero....
...Victor Shih, an expert in China’s elite politics at the University of California, San Diego, narrowed the most important groupings to those Xi formed while he was governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, as well...
...Victor Shih, an associate professor of Chinese political economy at the University of California San Diego, believes the appointment of cadres from China’s military-industrial complex to key leadership positions...
...“Our product level years ago was not fully ready, but gradually, after so many years, it has increased”, says Victor Zhang, manager of the Chery group in the UK. “Now, we are fully ready.”...
...Paris bureau chief Victor Mallet assesses the wear and tear on the pre-eminent symbol of France — and explains why Parisians could be waiting a decade for proper repairs....
...Lina Khan, Jonathan Kanter and Tim Wu have made it no secret in recent months that private equity is on their radar as the industry’s top players morph into powerful diversified conglomerates that control...
...Wu Yajun, China’s second-richest woman and former chair of developer Longfor, saw her company’s stock price fall by close to 30 per cent since its peak in April 2021....
...Wu Xiaohui, the head of Anbang, was jailed for embezzlement. Two top executives from travel-to-finance conglomerate HNA were arrested last year....
...“If Nato wants to branch out to the Asia-Pacific region, be our guest,” says Victor Gao, a former translator for Deng and Chinese diplomat....
...Victor said he faced imprisonment of more than 10 years if he returned to Hong Kong....
...Interest in London’s office sector is strong, says Antonio Wu, deputy managing director at estate agent Colliers International in Hong Kong....
...Seasoned collectors like Victor Ma, Pierre Chen, Robert Tsao, Berry Lam, Leo Shih, as well as younger collectors like Jay Chou and Leslie Sun, have put Taiwan on the art market map....
...Whether in Victor Orban’s Hungary or Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s Turkey, they target and intimidate independent media organisations that stand against them....
...Mr Wu has not been heard from since. China M&A leaders Anbang Insurance Group Anbang began as an auto insurer founded by car salesman Wu Xiaohui....
...Popular singer and actor Kris Wu has become the brand ambassador for Bulgari while fashion blogger Gogoboi has promoted labels such as Louis Vuitton and Dior....
...And now Anbang’s former chairman Wu Xiaohui has not been heard from in months. This doesn’t bode well for the future of Chinese insurers on the global stage....
...At Hugo Boss, Jason Wu took a plunge in David Hockney’s pool series and delivered pretty fine knits in lovely splashy blues and greens....
...Crucially, Wu wasn’t attempting to recreate a Martin canvas....
...“My feeling is that if the North Koreans would commit to a test moratorium, that could be a basis for going back,” says Victor Cha, who served as an adviser on Asia policy to former president George W Bush...
...It was here he decided to forge a career in being “professionally ridiculous”, joining a rap group described by one newspaper as a cross between Barbra Streisand and the Wu-Tang Clan....
...In 2009, Wu Bangguo, officially ranked second in the Communist party hierarchy after Hu Jintao, explicitly ruled out “western” multi-party democracy, separation of executive, legislative and judicial powers...
...Bejing’s Middle East envoy Wu Sike calling on the Assad government on Sunday to “speed up implementing its promises of reform”....
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