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    Yuan Yang

    Europe-China correspondent

    Yuan is the Financial Times' first Europe-China correspondent, based in London. She was previously deputy Beijing bureau chief for the FT. Before that, she covered China's tech sector and economy. She began her journalism career as a Marjorie Dean intern writing about economics at The Economist.

    She is co-founder of the campaign, Rethinking Economics, that calls for a more relevant curriculum that reflects the real world.

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    • Saturday, 25 March, 2023
      ObituaryJiang Yanyong
      Jiang Yanyong, surgeon and Sars whistleblower, 1931-2023

      The celebrated Chinese doctor suffered multiple political detentions

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      The Big Read
      Solar power: Europe attempts to get out of China’s shadow

      The EU wants to ramp up its renewable energy capacity but depends on the country for raw materials and technology

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Renewable energy
      Solar industry warns EU rules would hamper clean energy transition

      Vital Chinese supply chain would be hit by local content proposals in Net Zero Industry Act

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      Taiwan
      German minister to visit Taiwan despite Berlin’s push for dialogue with Beijing

      Planned trip by Bettina Stark-Watzinger next week would be first of its kind in 26 years

    • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      China’s reform generation is retiring

      Beijing’s new economic leadership should focus on building social infrastructure

    • Wednesday, 8 March, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      Chinese genomics company accused of hack attempts by UK minister

      Government later says no ‘evidence’ of attempted hacking of NHS genetic data centre by BGI

    • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
      5G networks
      Germany reviews security risks posed by China’s 5G technology

      Berlin examines use of Chinese components in its telecoms networks backed up by possible change in law

    • Sunday, 5 March, 2023
      Xinjiang
      Muddled engagement with China leaves Xinjiang in the lurch

      Toothless sanctions and empty agreements with Beijing fail to improve human rights in the region

    • Wednesday, 1 March, 2023
      Cyber warfare
      Belgium’s cyber security agency links China to spear phishing attack on MP

      European governments are increasingly challenging Beijing over suspected cyber offences

    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      China
      Xinjiang governor cancels Brussels and London visits after outcry

      Meetings with EU and UK officials axed amid protests over treatment of Uyghurs in north-west Chinese region

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Chinese economy
      China shows that suppressing strikes only fuels discontent

      Industrial action expresses anger that otherwise builds up in more costly ways

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      UK politics & policy
      MPs and rights activists call for sanctions on Xinjiang official visiting UK

      Governor of China’s north-west region set to travel to London and Brussels while his junior officials have been barred

    • Friday, 10 February, 2023
      InterviewLunch with the FT
      Jing Tsu: ‘The days of armchair scholarship are over if you’re studying China’

      The writer on why the west and China misunderstand each other — and how culture can bring them closer together

    • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
      ReviewHistory books
      Red Memory — enforced forgetting and the legacy of the Cultural Revolution

      Tania Branigan’s intimate stories of survivors capture a traumatic decade for many that still informs modern China

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Chinese society
      China’s women make a strong case with a birth strike

      In its focus on GDP growth, Beijing has forgotten where its labour force comes from

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Xinjiang
      UK High Court judge finds ‘striking consensus’ of abuses in Xinjiang

      Justice Dove rejects legal challenge brought against UK government over cotton imports but makes damning assessment

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      News in-depthUK universities
      UK universities target overseas students from outside China

      India, South Asia and Nigeria become key markets as sector seeks to diversify its intake over political risks

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      US-China relations
      US’s Yellen and China’s Liu seek to ease concerns over economic tensions

      Beijing and Washington try to counter fears with first meeting of two most senior economic officials in three years

    • Tuesday, 17 January, 2023
      World Economic Forum
      China past Covid infections peak, top economic official claims

      Chinese vice-premier Liu He tells Davos meeting that country is returning to normal faster than government expected

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Coronavirus pandemic
      China’s collective memories of the pandemic deserve to be preserved

      Beijing is wary of public displays of negative emotion, but they are necessary for a society to process trauma

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      News in-depthHong Kong politics
      Hong Kong activists in the UK fear the long reach of police repression

      Territory’s national security law used to justify surveillance abroad with consequences for family back home

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      Technology sector
      We need an honest east-west discussion about industrial policy

      Europe and the US are breaking a taboo that east Asia was never afraid of

    • Thursday, 1 December, 2022
      Chinese politics & policy
      European Council chief stresses ‘right to peaceful assembly’ in talks with Xi

      Charles Michel highlights availability of vaccines amid backlash in China over zero-Covid policy

    • Tuesday, 29 November, 2022
      The Big Read
      The electric vehicle boom in a quiet Hungarian town

      The country is becoming a surprise hub of Europe’s new battery industry. But critics fear becoming too dependent on China

    • Monday, 28 November, 2022
      Instant InsightChinese society
      China’s zero-Covid protests create a rare nationwide coalition of interests

      Both factory workers and urban elites oppose a policy that the Communist party has no easy way to abandon

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