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...Sullivan recently raised the issue in Washington with Liu Jianchao, head of the Communist party’s international department, who some believe will succeed Wang as foreign minister....
...US ambassador Nicholas Burns met China’s commerce minister Wang Wentao on Thursday, following talks with foreign minister Qin Gang on Monday....
...Yellen met Liu He, the top Chinese economic official, in Zurich last month....
...Li was the second cabinet minister to be ousted this year, after Qin Gang, Xi’s former foreign minister, was replaced by his predecessor Wang Yi in July following a month-long absence from public commitments...
...It removed Liu Kun as minister of finance, whose departure had been signalled last month as part of Beijing’s reshuffle of its economic team....
...Liu and He are said to be close because they were classmates at Xiamen University....
...On July 5, Yu Yong, the party secretary of the Shanghai district where Bain’s office is situated, visited the company to express support....
...Former foreign minister Qin Gang was absent from public commitments for a month before he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, last week....
...China’s former foreign minister Qin Gang was absent from public commitments for a month before he was replaced by his predecessor, Wang Yi, last week....
...Spokesperson Liu Pengyu said China “cannot but seriously question the independence, openness and transparency of the so-called investigation”....
...Hsieh Yong-fen, founding chair and CEO of MA-tek, told Nikkei Asia’s Cheng Ting-Fang that it is planning to expand in Japan, where TSMC is jointly building a plant in the western island of Kyushu....
...Lee Jae-yong, scion of the hereditary owners of Samsung — one of the world’s most valuable tech companies — is fighting a legal battle against South Korean prosecutors and a US hedge fund....
...Chinese leader Xi Jinping dispatched Liu He, his top aide and economy tsar, and state councillor Wang Yong to the site of wreckage in the mountains near Wuzhou, in southern China’s Guangxi region, after...
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu...
...The trend is expected to lead to a “normalisation of pork prices and pig-raising profit”, said CICC economist Liu Liu. Lower prices will be good for Chinese consumers....
...between continuing to allow Cathay Pacific to operate independently versus [the Hong Kong government] having some sort of surveillance, given the government has lent a lot of money to Cathay,” said Paul Yong...
...Qin Shao, who teaches modern Chinese history at the College of New Jersey, argued that this made Zhang a problematic figure for Mr Xi....
...“Agreement over cyber security protection for intellectual property will be difficult to achieve in this trade deal,” said Wang Yong, an international affairs expert at Peking University....
...Cathay had about HK$25bn (US$3.2bn) in cash, Mr Yong said....
...Coinciding with this would allow him to declare that China is prosperous and deserves to be a world leader, says Gao Qin, an expert on China’s social welfare at Columbia University....
...Gan Kim Yong, health minister, conceded the country would have to continue tightening measures “from time to time” to slow down infection rates and maintain sufficient capacity in the healthcare system....
...Additional reporting by Nian Liu in Beijing and Xueqiao Wang in Shanghai...
...Similarly the visitors [were not] involved in military related research while in Sheffield,” Prof Qin said....
...Additional reporting by Nicolle Liu in Hong Kong...
...Mr Qin is now trying to renew the loan but can only do so if he can find a credit company willing to guarantee it....
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