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...“Sometimes to praise the path not taken is to make a comment on the path that was taken,” said Wen-Ti Sung, a fellow at the Atlantic Council Global China Hub....
...Additional reporting by Sun Yu in Beijing...
...China has threatened to retaliate if Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen meets US House Speaker Kevin McCarthy during an upcoming trip to the US, amid soaring tensions between Washington and Beijing....
...Over the course of a long foreign trip that has seen her visit the US twice, Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-wen has delivered a consistent and blunt message....
...She resurfaced briefly in September when she phoned Shum urging him not to publish his book about their dealings with the Wen family, Sun and other party elite....
...Duan’s connections to Sun may, in turn, have led to her arrest. Or it could be that she was too close to the wife of former premier Wen Jiabao, whose family had become fabulously wealthy....
...Apart from her dealings with Wen’s family, Duan was also close to Sun Zhengcai, the youngest member of the Chinese Communist party’s politburo and a possible successor to President Xi Jinping until he was...
...Duan and Shum’s main contacts included Zhang Beili, wife of former premier Wen Jiabao, and Sun Zhengcai, a potential successor to President Xi Jinping who was purged in 2017....
...“The Great Wen”, Cobbett famously called it....
...“Unless you use leverage or margin financing you might not be able to get” shares, said Kenny Wen, wealth management strategist at Everbright Sun Hung Kai....
...“The key is whether the national security law will affect US-China relations,” said Kenny Wen, a Hong Kong-based strategist at brokerage Everbright Sun Hung Kai....
...Yun Sun, at the Stimson Center, a Washington-based think-tank, said Beijing viewed India’s infrastructure building in the Galwan Valley as a “serious offence” that required a firm response....
...The Order of the Lion from Senegal, the Order of the Rising Sun from Japan.” What did he get the Japanese honour for? “I’ve no idea, they don’t tell you....
...Kenny Wen, wealth management strategist at Everbright Sun Hung Kai, said that even if tensions ease somewhat after the US elections, a battle could break out over technology and currencies, in which case...
...In 2012, the New York Times reported that members of the family of Wen Jiabao, the then premier, were early investors in Ping An....
...While lawmakers debate a bill to make it easier for skilled south-east Asian workers to obtain permanent residency in Taiwan, the government of President Tsai Ing-wen says it welcomes the outflow of talent...
...Jonas Short, head of the Beijing office of investment bank Everbright Sun Hung Kai, echoes that view. “The overall cost of US tariffs is very manageable for China....
...“It’s eight years since the last visit by Wen Jiabao....
...Equally remarkable, and probably even less likely, Taiwan has peacefully transitioned from an authoritarian one-party state to a young democracy with a woman, Tsai Ing-wen, now the fourth president since...
...Wanning Sun, professor of media at the University of Technology Sydney, has branded this “indoctritainment”, and says the government sees no paradox in allowing commercial outfits to promote state socialism...
...Mr Chen’s promotion comes at the expense of Sun Zhengcai, a man once viewed as a contender to succeed Mr Xi as party secretary....
...By taking a phone call on Friday from Taiwan’s president Tsai Ing-wen, Mr Trump broke with decades of precedent and upended a careful word game that allows the US to recognise a single China, ruled from...
...Shi Wen, chief engineer of the Caihong drones, said: “We mainly sell to poor and middle-income developing countries.”...
...The Vancouver Sun recently reported that wealthy locals as well as foreign buyers have purchased units....
...“Informing the citizens of the country of such a meeting under such hasty circumstances is damaging to Taiwan’s democracy,” DPP leader Tsai Ing-wen, who leads the polls to be Taiwan’s next president, said...
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