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...“Borrowers will be more likely to default when they pay 25 per cent interest to a small lender than 18 per cent to Ant,” said Bo Zhuang, an economist at TS Lombard, a London-based consultancy....
...“This goes against common sense,” said Zhuang Bo, chief China economist for TS Lombard, the research group....
...“The best way to survive in a tough business environment is to keep cash in hand and pay suppliers as late as possible,” said Bo Zhuang, an analyst at TS Lombard....
...“The government thinks it would be easier for troubled firms to sell shares by offering a discount,” said Zhuang Bo, an economist at TS Lombard....
...“Private placements create ample room for corruption,” said Bo Zhuang, an analyst at TS Lombard in Singapore....
...“The government can decide on how many roads and bridges to build,” says Zhuang Bo, an economist at TS Lombard, “but it can’t control how much average households want to spend.”...
...Didi will deploy 30 self-driving cars in the Jiading district, pending regulatory approval, Zhang Bo, head of its autonomous driving unit, announced at Shanghai’s World Artificial Intelligence Conference...
...Lauren Zhang “Total phenomenon” is how Julian Lloyd Webber described Lauren Zhang....
...Zhang Bo, Didi’s chief technology officer, will be chief executive of the new group while Meng Xing, former executive director at Shunwei China Internet Fund, a Chinese venture capital firm, was named chief...
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu and Archie Zhang in Beijing...
...But I think the likelihood is very small,” Zhang Yuyan, director of the Institute of World Economics and Politics and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), a government think-tank, told the forum...
...“There isn’t any organised movement against Xi or any real threat for him, in my view” said Bo Zhuang, chief China economist for TS Lombard....
...When Zhang Yufang, 84, was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 2009 after discovering a lump on her neck, her daughter Zhang Meiqing asked a friend to forge a document calling it a “benign tumour”....
...Zhang’s death brought home the ferocity of the purge enveloping the ranks of the world’s largest army....
...Neither man made it on to the standing committee in 2012, and Mr Bo is now in jail....
...In the past month, Chen Zhongshu, an official in charge of dispensing land rights in the southwestern city of Panzhihua, shot and wounded Li Jianqin, the city’s new mayor, and Zhang Yan, party secretary,...
...Wanda’s ascendancy has been helped by Mr Wang’s friendly ties to Chinese leaders including now-disgraced politician Bo Xilai and the family of current president, Xi Jinping....
...Additional reporting by Xinning Liu and Archie Zhang...
...Additional reporting by Archie Zhang in Beijing Twitter: @hancocktom...
...For the company performance as an ensemble, for the grace and emotional dignity of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, and for Zhang Jian as a protective Flower Goddess, no praise too high....
...Zhang Yimou, The Great Wall’s director, whose other films include the 2004 House of the Flying Daggers, told an interviewer that Chinese reviewers had double standards for domestic versus foreign films....
...“Now is the season,” says Bo Zhiyue, an expert in elite Chinese politics at Victoria University of Wellington. “This is Chinese politics, so they don’t fight....
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