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    Edward White

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    Edward White is an award-winning journalist and China correspondent since 2021. He was previously the FT’s Seoul bureau chief, covering North Korea and South Korea, a correspondent in Taiwan and breaking news reporter.
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    • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
      News in-depthAutomobiles
      China set to overtake Japan as world’s biggest car exporter

      Foreign shipments boost industry as domestic carmakers struggle to sell at home

      Vehicles assembled for loading at Yantai port in Shandong province, China
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Inside BusinessChinese business & finance
      China’s business confidence problem

      Unpredictable regulations and sudden crackdowns still weigh on entrepreneurial spirits

      A man waves a paper dragon on a stick in front of the Shanghai waterfront. Skyscrapers from the city’s business district can be seen in the background
    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      Batteries
      China’s battery plant rush raises fears of global squeeze

      State subsidies follow steel and solar panel playbook in reinforcing race for market share

    • Monday, 4 September, 2023
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      Xi puts China’s security ahead of tackling its economic woes

      Leadership wary of enacting stimulus that adds to government debt or risks financial instability

      Chinese president Xi Jinping, centre, speaks at the Brics summit in South Africa
    • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
      Asia-Pacific economy
      China’s economic slowdown reverberates across Asia

      South Korea mired in longest manufacturing slump since 1970s

      Pedestrians in the Myeongdong shopping district of Seoul, South Korea
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Rugby
      Rugby needs to be more exciting to attract younger fans, says New Zealand chief

      Comments by Mark Robinson come ahead of men’s World Cup in France

      New Zealand’s Beauden Barrett is tackled by South Africa’s Faf de Klerk during a World Cup warm-up match at Twickenham last week
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      OutlookOutlook
      Mongolia’s rocky road to prosperity

      Government vision for a modern economy and trading links faces internal doubts from a population hit by social problems

      Ömnögovi province, Mongolia
    • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
      Chinese corruption
      China’s corruption crackdown rips through healthcare sector

      Efforts to tackle bribery and fraud could have far-reaching impact on doctors, patients and multinational drugmakers

      Medical staff working in a neonatal care unit in Guizhou province, China
    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      BYD Co Ltd
      BYD’s first-half profits surge despite price war in Chinese car market

      Warren Buffett-backed group cements its dominance of domestic electric vehicle sector

      A BYD car on a display stand
    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      FT SeriesThe battery revolution
      Can anyone challenge China’s EV battery dominance?

      Technology breakthroughs and trade barriers will be needed to take on CATL and BYD

    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Chinese economy
      The local government debt that threatens China’s economy

      How the country’s regional authorities accumulated a mountain of borrowings — and how they hope to resolve it

      Duge Bridge
    • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
      Batteries
      China’s cathode billionaire targets US battery market via South Korea IPO

      Ronbay Technology looks to split to avoid Washington’s tariffs and access subsidies

    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      Storm clouds gather over Xi Jinping’s political beach retreat

      China’s economic downturn and flaring US tensions mar annual Beidaihe leadership gathering

      People on the beach at Beidaihe
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Political espionage
      Beijing claims to arrest Chinese national over spying for US

      Rare disclosure says military-industrial group employee was recruited by CIA operative in Italy

      A Chinese flag flutters outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      The Big Read
      How China cornered the market for clean tech

      The country is the biggest supplier of materials vital for the energy transition. That could give it geopolitical leverage

      Illustration of a giant red hand with the yellow stars from China’s flag on it, clutching a handful of solar panels and wind turbines against a background with symbols of critical mineral from the periodic table
    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      News in-depthChinese politics & policy
      TED talks cross free speech ‘red line’ in Xi’s China

      Authorities cancel upcoming event citing breach of restrictions on foreign NGO activities

      An illustration of a microphone with the TEDx logo and the yellow stars of the Chinese flag
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      InterviewLeadership
      Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan: ‘I had seen too many of my colleagues turn to alcohol’

      Head of the international charity on the personal toll of investigating the world’s dark corners

      Tirana Hassan, wearing black suit and white blouse, sits on a long red sofa
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      Copper
      Miner Rio Tinto to test ‘new frontiers’ as copper age dawns

      Anglo-Australian group rethinks strategy in race to extract metal vital for clean energy transition

      A worker at Rio’s Oyu Tolgoi mine in southern Mongolia
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      Belt and Road Initiative
      China’s overseas investment in metals and mining set to hit record

      Beijing intensifies efforts to lock up access to renewable energy supply chain

      Construction of a railway in Indonesia
    • Monday, 31 July, 2023
      News in-depthChinese corruption
      ‘Absolute loyalty’: Xi turns anti-corruption focus to China’s military

      Senior officers in nuclear weapons division under scrutiny as president strengthens party’s control over armed forces

      Visitors stand in front of a giant screen displaying President Xi Jinping next to a flag of the Chinese Communist party at a military museum in Beijing
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Person in the News
      Wang Yi, the return of China’s tough foreign minister

      After Qin Gang’s mysterious disappearance, Xi’s trusted old hand finds himself with even more to do

      Illustration of Wang Yi putting on his blazer with a lanyard round his neck reading ‘Wang Yi, Foreign Minister. On a coatstand in the background is another blazer and a lanyard reading ‘Qin Gang, Foreign Minister
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Climate change
      China accused of using ‘wrecking tactics’ at climate talks

      Impasse at G20 despite moves by Washington and Beijing to rekindle bilateral discussions

      The G20 meeting is being held in Chennai, India
    • Friday, 28 July, 2023
      Hong Kong politics
      Beijing pushes for Hong Kong’s leader to attend Apec summit in US

      China says John Lee should get invite to economic gathering after report suggests he would be barred entry

      Hong Kong chief executive John Lee
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      Electric vehicles
      Chinese electric-car shares boosted by VW investment in Xpeng

      German group’s 5% stake will give it one seat as an ‘observer’ on Chinese carmaker’s board

      Xpeng’s flagship store in Beijing
    • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
      The Big Read
      Will Mongolia’s crackdown on graft unlock its mineral riches?

      The landlocked country is making sweeping reforms to win over western investors and become less reliant on China and Russia

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