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  • Monday, 16 May, 2022
    OutlookCardinal Joseph Zen
    Cardinal Zen will not fear the fate that awaits him in Hong Kong

    The religious leader previously did not seem to be a threat to the authorities

  • Thursday, 12 May, 2022
    The Big Read
    Can Xi vanquish Covid without crushing China’s economy?

    In a crucial political year, a series of open-ended lockdowns have heaped pressure on struggling businesses

  • Monday, 9 May, 2022
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    The cost of China’s zero-Covid lockdown

    Africa’s top Covid-19 vaccine plant has halted production due to lack of demand

  • Sunday, 1 May, 2022
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    Zero-Covid pride of China’s ‘big leader’ Xi Jinping threatens economic fall

    Officials and advisers fear president is blind to the impact of harsh anti-coronavirus measures

  • Wednesday, 27 April, 2022
    News in-depthChinese economy
    China policymakers clash over how to counter property slump

    Xi’s economic tsar Liu He worries Beijing underestimating impact of real estate and Covid restrictions

  • Monday, 25 April, 2022
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    Beijing gripped by panic buying as Covid cases rise

    Supermarket shelves emptied after city officials order lockdown in several neighbourhoods

  • Saturday, 23 April, 2022
    Chinese business & finance
    China’s Covid strictures scupper hopes of property revival

    Beijing has implemented measures to boost the economy but data point to significant downturn

  • Sunday, 17 April, 2022
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    China first-quarter GDP: five things to watch

    Economic outlook was darkening even before lockdown of most important financial centre

  • Friday, 15 April, 2022
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    China cuts banks’ reserve rules in effort to combat economic impact of Covid

    PBoC holds back on reducing key interest rate as it juggles capital outflows and weakening growth

  • Saturday, 9 April, 2022
    Person in the News
    John Lee, Hong Kong’s security tsar turned chief executive-in-waiting

    The expected appointment shows that Beijing’s focus is on ensuring law and order, not financial recovery

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    Chinese politics & policy
    Hong Kong executive’s story a reminder of city’s turn of fortunes

    The memoirs of Simon Murray recall a bygone era of US-Chinese collaboration

  • Friday, 1 April, 2022
    War in Ukraine
    China calls on EU to act independently of US foreign policy

    Beijing and Brussels clash over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as Xi Jinping warns against ‘cold war mentality’

  • Thursday, 31 March, 2022
    Chinese economy
    Shanghai extends Covid lockdown measures despite economic concerns

    Two-week local restrictions come as PMI data show negative financial impact of controls

  • Wednesday, 30 March, 2022
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    Russia’s Ukraine war forges new unity of EU purpose on China

    Bloc’s leaders will use Friday summit to pressure Beijing over its close ties with Moscow

  • Monday, 28 March, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Shanghai split by lockdown as officials struggle to contain Covid outbreak

    China’s financial centre hit by panic buying ahead of public transport shutdown and mass testing

  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
    Coronavirus pandemic
    Shanghai to lock down financial district as it tries to rein in Covid

    People in Pudong and nine other areas will have to stay at home to allow for mass testing

  • Sunday, 27 March, 2022
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    Spectre of ‘Indo-Pacific Nato’ accelerates China’s decoupling from the west

    US-led alliance is as much a threat to Beijing as Moscow, say Xi Jinping’s diplomats

  • Friday, 25 March, 2022
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    Chinese foreign minister makes first visit to India since deadly border clashes

    Neighbouring countries have been in a diplomatic stand-off for two years

  • Thursday, 17 March, 2022
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    The Federal Reserve finally raises rates

    The Ukraine war represents a threat to China’s economy and could lead to a diplomatic backlash

  • Wednesday, 16 March, 2022
    Chinese economy
    China makes rare intervention to bolster confidence after market rout

    Beijing will boost economy and introduce market-friendly policies, says top economic official Liu He

  • Tuesday, 15 March, 2022
    Chinese politics & policy
    China warns of retaliation if hit by Russia sanctions fallout

    Beijing slams what it calls US efforts to spread disinformation and ‘distort and smear’ its position on Ukraine

  • Sunday, 13 March, 2022
    US foreign policy
    US and China to meet in Rome for high-level talks focusing on Ukraine

    Washington expected to raise Beijing’s refusal to condemn Moscow’s invasion of its neighbour

  • Friday, 11 March, 2022
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    China struggles to rein in biggest virus outbreak since Wuhan

    City of 9mn locks down after just 23 cases as Omicron surge challenges Xi’s zero-Covid strategy

  • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
    The Big Read
    The rising costs of China’s friendship with Russia

    The war in Ukraine represents a threat to China’s economy and could lead to a diplomatic backlash over its support for Moscow

  • Friday, 4 March, 2022
    News in-depthXi Jinping
    Ukraine outcry and Covid chaos overshadow Xi’s celebrations

    National People’s Congress should have been a chance for Chinese president to tout his achievements

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