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...Wong said she had exchanged “frank views” with Wang including over the death sentence for Yang Hengjun, an Australian citizen who was detained on espionage charges in China in 2019....
...In Germany and France this week, Li Qiang went on a charm offensive with government officials and business leaders, pledging to focus on the fight against climate change and announcing a debt relief deal...
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...Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema, Emmanuel Macron, president of France, and China’s premier Li Qiang were due to meet to mark the agreement on Thursday at the global finance and climate summit in Paris...
...After the arrest was revealed by The Sunday Times, Sunak met China’s premier Li Qiang on the fringes of the G20 summit in New Delhi, and expressed his “significant concerns about Chinese interference in...
...The Chinese-Australian writer Yang Hengjun was arrested in January 2019 and charged with espionage. Albanese said on Wednesday that his government continued to advocate for Yang....
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...German chancellor Olaf Scholz has pushed new Chinese premier Li Qiang to ensure western companies have a “level playing field” in China, while stressing his opposition to any economic decoupling from Beijing...
...It will also be the first overseas visit by new premier Li Qiang....
...In January 2022, Zhang Yang, a former vice-president at rival Nio, was appointed as chief executive, replacing co-founder Gu Feng in a management shake-up to boost sales....
...He is then set to meet China’s president Xi Jinping and premier Li Qiang on Monday. Such an audience was nearly unthinkable just a few years ago....
...Li Qiang presided over mainland China’s worst Covid-19 outbreak in March....
...Yang Jianwen, an economist at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, said property and consumption were the “two biggest issues” China needed to solve....
...Li Qiang, 63, named to the second position in the Politburo Standing Committee last week, appears set to become premier next March....
...“This directive is severe and unusual,” said Xiao Qiang, a research scientist at the University of California at Berkeley School of Information....
...Li Keqiang, the premier, and Wang Yang, who was responsible for United Front work, were both dropped from the Politburo....
...Yang, the sunflower seed merchant, said he was owed Rmb60,000 ($9,400)....
...The essay itself was centred on Wen’s mother, Yang Zhiyun, and described the difficulties she endured as well as Wen’s own humble origins....
...And I think this whole point is that Rishi Sunak put Gavin Williamson in government for a purpose, which, as Robert said, was to be the sort of the ying to Simon Hart’s yang as chief whip — someone who would...
...he backed a conspiracy theory in March that the US army could have brought the virus to Wuhan during Military World Games, it was followed by a flurry of statements from senior diplomats, including Fu Ying...
...communications that could be taken advantage of,” said a former Microsoft China executive, who added that Mr Zhang was close friends with former Microsoft vice-president Harry Shum, whose protégé Ma Wei-Ying...
...Mr Jiang was replaced by Ying Yong, the current mayor of Shanghai, state media reported....
...For a backgrounder on the peer-to-peer lending boom in China (which is especially topical after the Ant IPO suspension) and the IPO of Lufax, a fintech company, check out this podcast from Rui Ma and Ying-Ying...
...Since Ms Tsai took office in 2016, Beijing has suspended government contacts and dialogue which it had conducted with her predecessor Ma Ying-jeou from the Kuomintang, or KMT, the opposition party which...
...Rui Ma and Ying Lu of Tech Buzz China provide a nuanced and detailed take on Ant Group in this podcast. The amount of little-known context makes it worthwhile listen....
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