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...“I have already given up any hopes and illusions I used to have in Chinese football,” said Bert Zhou, an entrepreneur in Shenzhen and football fan....
...The campaign netted prominent national figures such as Zhou Yongkang, China’s former security chief, and Ling Jihua, a top aide to former president Hu Jintao....
...Additional reporting by Emma Zhou and Maiqi Ding in Beijing...
...Without a settlement on Taiwan, Zhou made clear, there would be no reconciliation with the US. Taiwan was then a single-party dictatorship under the Nationalists led by Chiang Kai-shek....
...It features such international big hitters as Ai Weiwei, Sachiko Kazama, Zhou Tao and Pierre Huyghe alongside Taiwanese stars including Chen Yin-Ju and Eleng Luluan....
...After Mao declared victory in mainland China in October 1949, KMT leader Chiang Kai-shek installed himself on the island of Taiwan, a former Japanese colony. He was backed by the US....
...Nine months ago it would have been $110m,” said Kai-Fu Lee, who headed up Google’s operations in China at and now runs the VC firm Sinovation Ventures....
...Ma Kai, who previously held that vice-premiership, was ostensibly Mr Zhou’s superior but was widely viewed as less influential....
...Last month, Chinese AI start-up SenseTime raised $600m, led by Alibaba, while Sinovation Ventures, an AI-focused investment fund led by Kai-Fu Lee, former Google China chief, raised $500m to invest into...
...“Baotou doesn’t particularly need a metro system,” said Jonas Short, head of China policy research for Sun Hung Kai Financial, an investment group....
...In January, Zhihu raised a further $100m from investors including Tencent, the internet group, and Sinovation Ventures, the venture capital company co-founded by Kai-Fu Lee, a former Google China executive...
...“Everyone around here believes in Mao,” says Peng Kai, 28, a taxi driver. “It’s definitely a kind of religious belief.”...
...“They don’t want the market to panic but I don’t think they have a set target,” said Zhou Hao, senior emerging markets economist at Commerzbank in Singapore....
...An EBRD official said “a senior Chinese authority” — understood to be Zhou Xiaochuan, governor of the People’s Bank of China — had written to Sir Suma Chakrabarti, EBRD president, in August, proposing that...
...In many ways this appears to be the PBoC and its influential chief Zhou Xiaochuan downplaying the role of monetary policy in generating sustainable growth at this point in the cycle....
...After capturing Shanghai, the Japanese military advanced up the Yangtze river to Nanking, the seat of Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalist government....
...“On weekends I can walk past the Shanghai houses of Song Qingling, Chiang Kai-shek, Zhou Enlai, and Mei Lanfang, the famous Beijing opera singer,” he says....
...Zhou Zhigang wore his red Walmart jacket with pride when he joined the US retail group’s branch in Changde, Hunan province....
...During a week of meetings between the IMF and senior Chinese officials, including central bank governor Zhou Xiaochuan and state councillor Ma Kai, Mr Lipton said the Chinese government expressed concern...
...Additional reporting by Zhou Ping...
...An altogether more elaborate mock-up features heroic young visionaries, from Sun Yat-sen to Zhou Enlai, training eagle eyes on China’s future....
...This last sea journey was during the civil war as Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalists retreated to Taiwan with Mao’s communists in control of the mainland....
...“We would love to get some of these people on air,” says Chang Chi-kai, host of the main weekend evening talk show at the channel TVBS....
...Being a privileged representative of the US media, Crow could meet the likes of Sun, Chiang Kai-shek and his wife Zhou Enlai and even the odd warlord, for casual chats of the kind that are unimaginable these...
...Mao repaid Zhou’s slavish support by refusing to allow Zhou to get treatment for his cancer until it had almost killed him....
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