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...Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen in September unveiled her country’s first domestically built submarine at state-owned shipbuilder CSBC in the southern port city of Kaohsiung....
...(Jonathan Groff and Ben Aldridge)....
...“Beijing still has strategic patience and that is a chance for Washington,” Colonel Zhou Bo, a former official in the Chinese defence ministry and a senior fellow at Tsinghua University, wrote in an article...
...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou and Maiqi Ding in Beijing...
...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...Pelosi, who has been a longtime critic of China, particularly over human rights abuses, is expected to meet Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen tomorrow....
...Yixiao Zhou, an expert on China’s economy at Australian National University, says Xi’s administration missed a “window of opportunity” during a period of relative economic and geopolitical stability to undertake...
...“Growth has been phenomenal,” said Ben Zhou, chief executive of Singapore-based Bybit, where $76bn of digital assets changed hands on May 19, the platform’s busiest day....
...Zhou Xianwang, the mayor of Wuhan, a city of more than 10m people at the centre of the outbreak, told China’s state-owned television that “there was not enough warning” to local residents in a district called...
...Zhou Xiang, a managing director at the investment bank China Renaissance, estimated the epidemic could delay the fundraising cycle by three months or longer....
...Asked how the smartphone division can survive, Vincent Wen, a Huawei executive who works with app developers, told the Financial Times: “That’s the kind of question you should ask our senior leadership.”...
...Additional reporting by Christian Shepherd and Emma Zhou in Beijing...
...It has boosted the popularity of the Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, who is detested by the Chinese government, which regards her as a pro-independence separatist....
...Premier Li Keqiang and before him, former premier Wen Jiabao, have both attempted to move towards soft targets, but fell back on hard targets during cyclical slowdowns....
...“In reality it’s going to be much more than $2bn,” said Mr Zhou....
...The detente ended after Tsai Ing-wen, from the independence-minded Democratic Progressive party, won power in 2016. Her victory took Mr Xi by surprise....
...But Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen said she was shocked that the government used rubber bullets against a peaceful protest....
...ben.bland@ft.com...
...“When the initial 25 per cent tariff was announced, Chinese state oil companies were concerned about how much it would increase their winter costs,” said Wen Wang at energy consultancy Wood Mackenzie in...
...Before departing on Tuesday to visit Swaziland, one of Taipei’s few remaining diplomatic allies, Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen said that Taiwan had “the confidence and determination to safeguard the country's...
...Zhou Enlai, the Chinese premier, commented in 1972 that it was too early to tell the implications of the French Revolution, which had happened in 1789....
...While Beijing was outlining the path for Xi Jinping to rule as China’s president for life, Tsai Ing-wen, his democratically elected counterpart in Taiwan, was speaking about the importance of universal human...
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