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...A researcher from Beijing Xinghang Electro-mechanical Equipment Co Ltd, a Chinese defence company, was also listed as a contributor on the study....
...That has helped it undercut its western rivals....
...“With the latest agreement, they’re trying to go for a mini alliance with a very reduced scope of co-operation,” Ghosn said....
...Beijing’s official line on the war blames the west and the Nato defence alliance for pushing Putin towards conflict....
...China has pledged Covid vaccines across the developing world but the international rollout has been hampered by lingering concerns about its efficacy, as Chinese manufacturers have been slower than western...
...Western countries have sought to boost domestic manufacturing in response....
...AvtoVaz is heavily reliant on parts and technology from Renault and alliance partner Nissan, which the companies will not provide if Renault chooses to walk away from the business, according to one person...
...Cape Town, which is under the control of the main opposition Democratic Alliance, is seeking to steal a march on the ruling African National Congress as frustration with the slow pace of reform builds....
...North Korea, she added, would be a “major beneficiary” of an “alliance of sanctions evaders”....
...Western hubris, they argued, had led to negligence and now the potentially destabilising Omicron outbreak....
...The world’s biggest miner and Silicon Valley-based KoBold Metals will jointly fund exploration using data processing technology to help predict the location of mineral deposits, starting in Western Australia...
...At the start of 2021, as the global pandemic reached a new high, AmerisourceBergen agreed a majority acquisition of Alliance Healthcare, the distribution business of Walgreens Boots Alliance, for $6.5bn....
...According to people close to the situation, the company is also in discussions to form a three-way alliance with US chipmakers Western Digital and Micron to compete against industry leader SK Hynix, which...
...The new alliance echoes other partnerships in the region....
...It has been encouraging to watch the rapid developments on coronavirus vaccines with the UK becoming the first western country to issue regulatory approval for the BioNTech/Pfizer shot on Wednesday....
...Mr Ghosn — the former head of the Renault-Nissan alliance and chair of the Japanese company — was originally arrested in Japan in late 2018 on charges of financial misconduct at Nissan....
...He previously led the alliance’s light commercial vehicles unit....
...The former chairman of the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance said he fled Japan because he felt its legal system, which has a 99 per cent conviction rate, was unjust....
...Mr Ghosn’s flight to his mother’s native country means he will avoid standing trial in Tokyo, where he faces charges of financial misconduct relating to his time as head of the Nissan-Renault carmakers’ alliance...
...Nissan’s alliance with Renault was widely interpreted as a watershed in Japan’s liberalisation and embrace of a western-style free market....
...The marriage between Bashar al-Assad’s father Hafez, Syria’s president until 2000, and Anisa Makhlouf, forged a savvy strategic alliance....
...Mr Macron’s comments come against a background of rising internal pressure on Nissan chief executive, Hiroto Saikawa, to address the perceived imbalances of the alliance....
...Oh and Gupta’s GFG Alliance occupies five of the six floors in the main office building....
...Representatives of Nissan, Renault’s existing alliance partner, abstained....
...As the night wore on in Renault’s western Paris headquarters on Wednesday, Jean-Dominique Senard told his board that if they delayed a vote on the proposed merger with Fiat Chrysler one more time, they risked...
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