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...“After a year, I’m boarding the plane again, also departing from Los Angeles, but this time with my son Er-Kin. This time, the destination is ‘onwards’.”...
...Shein touts its “long-term relationship” with its network of garment manufacturers as one of its competitive advantages over fast-fashion rivals such as Zara and H&M, forging those ties by paying quicker...
...Hou Yu-ih, a former police chief and candidate of the Kuomintang, said on Thursday that while the ruling Democratic Progressive party bore some responsibility for the rise in tensions with China in recent...
...Josh Gabert-DoyonI’m Josh Gabert-Doyon, in for Marc Filippino, and here’s the news you need to start your day....
...Xi’s talks with Ma Ying-jeou on Wednesday were the first since the two men met in Singapore nine years ago when Ma was still in office....
...Although I’m not a gamer, I remember being astonished by how realistic a race car game being played on a large-screen TV looked....
...Sun Yu I’m afraid not....
...Lin Ying-yu, a professor of strategic studies at Tamkang University, said China would “show muscle” in the event of a Lai victory, but added that Beijing was unlikely to drastically escalate military manoeuvres...
...Taiwanese artist Su Hui-Yu describes his first encounter with the underground cinema and theatre in Taipei in the 1990s as accidental....
...For months Hou Yu-ih, nominated by the main opposition Kuomintang, and Ko Wen-je, founder of the small centrist Taiwan People’s party, have been neck and neck in opinion polls, behind vice-president and...
...Former police chief and New Taipei City mayor Hou Yu-ih, nominated by the largest opposition party Kuomintang, and former Taipei mayor Ko Wen-je, a surgeon who is running for the centrist Taiwan People’s...
...“I’m in the middle camp,” he said. “Neither absolutely pro-west or anti-west.”...
...We stand together,” Hou Yu-ih, of the Kuomintang, told the Financial Times in his first interview with international media since receiving the KMT’s nomination in May....
...‘probation period’ to wait and assess what he will say in his inaugural address,” said James Chen, a foreign relations expert at Tamkang University in Taipei who advised KMT presidential candidate Hou Yu-ih...
...“I’m worried about this issue, that it could turn into another trade conflict between two of the most important trading partners,” says Wang Yong, professor at the School of International Studies in Peking...
...I’m not sure how much automation has to do with BYD’s cost-effectiveness, but one big factor is its high level of so-called vertical integration, meaning a majority of components are made in-house....
...The Kuomintang, Taiwan’s largest opposition party, and the Taiwan People’s party failed to agree in overnight talks on a formula to determine whether the KMT’s Hou Yu-ih or TPP founder Ko Wen-je is the stronger...
...The front-page teaser for your Big Read feature by Joe Leahy, James Kynge and Sun Yu piqued my interest (January 31). But the military metaphor of war only goes so far when it comes to trade....
...So I think the investors I’m speaking to, they kind of worried about that....
...I’m Benjamin Zephaniah. You are wonderful. Bye.”...
...I’m joined now by the FT’s China economics reporter, Sun Yu. Hey there. Sun Yu Hi. Sonja Hutson So tell me about these debt squads. What exactly are they doing?...
...The KMT wants Han Kuo-yu, a populist China-friendly politician who lost the last presidential election to Tsai, to become speaker....
...Her gallery brings a mixed booth of its artists to the fair, including work by Chou Yu-Cheng and Liu Yin....
...“We have come to a point where women leaders, both in the middle and at the top, are taking off,” says Zhao Ying, co-founder and publisher of WhichMBA.net, a management education platform based in Shanghai...
...Hi, I’m Katie Martin, the FT’s markets columnist, and I’m looking after this newsletter for a couple of weeks while Harriet Agnew is topping up her vitamin D levels on holiday, the lucky duck....
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