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    • Monday, 13 November, 2023
      News in-depthUS-China relations
      Xi and Biden to try to ease tensions as Taiwan looms over US-China talks

      Leaders meet in San Francisco to manage increasingly tense geopolitical and economic competition

      Chinese fighter jets conduct combat training exercises around Taiwan in August
    • Sunday, 12 November, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Pakistan’s expulsion order deepens the Afghan crisis

      Islamabad needs to reverse course, but the west has responsibility too

    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Japan’s fiscal and monetary policies are moving in opposite directions

      Tokyo must consider whether a stimulus next year will help or hinder its central bank

      Kazuo Ueda, the Bank of Japan’s governor
    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Semiconductors
      Nvidia develops AI chips for China in latest bid to avoid US restrictions

      Technology’s performance has been moderated compared with what was previously sold in key market

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    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      InterviewBank of Japan
      BoJ governor warns unwinding ultra-loose policy is ‘serious challenge’

      Kazuo Ueda tells FT conference that central bank will move carefully on raising interest rates

      Kazuo Ueda in front of a red carpet in India in July
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    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Chinese economy
      China’s economy falls back into deflation in blow to recovery

      Tumbling pork prices undercut growth as consumer confidence lags

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    • Thursday, 9 November, 2023
      Indian business & finance
      Martha Stewart backs India outsourcing as companies rethink China supply chains

      Home goods entrepreneur says India is ‘nice fit’ for manufacturing her branded textiles

      Martha Stewart, right, with Welspun Living chief Dipali Goenka
    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
      Sri Lanka
      US lends $553mn to majority Adani-owned port in Sri Lanka

      Washington and New Delhi compete with Beijing for influence in region

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    • Wednesday, 8 November, 2023
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      Israel plans for ‘indefinite’ grip over Gaza

      The IMF warns that soaring wage growth risks blunting eastern Europe’s edge

    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      News in-depthChinese business & finance
      Western businesses flock back to Shanghai trade fair despite tensions

      Growth hopes draw companies to China in face of economic worries and geopolitical concerns

      US ambassador Nicholas Burns and other officials at a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the China International Import Expo in Shanghai, China on November 6 2023
    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Chinese economy
      IMF raises China growth outlook as bankers urged to ‘ride the dragon’

      Beijing officials express optimism but analysts say weak export data shows recovery remains fragile

      Zhang Qingsong, deputy governor at the People’s Bank of China, at the Global Financial Leaders’ Investment Summit in Hong Kong, on  November 7 2023
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      Special ReportInvesting in America
      China culls spend in response to US trade hostility

      Restrictions imposed over national security concerns have taken their toll on US communities dependent on foreign-owned projects

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    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Chinese economy
      Falling pork prices threaten to push China back into deflation

      Pig farmers have kept up production despite weak demand ahead of October consumer price data

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    • Tuesday, 7 November, 2023
      Markets InsightMichael Pettis
      The global constraints to Chinese growth

      Many more years of high economic expansion are only possible if the country restructures to boost domestic consumption

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    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Inside BusinessKaye Wiggins
      Why the CEOs of Goldman, Morgan Stanley and Citi are gathering in Hong Kong

      Big names in finance arrive in the territory amid continued tensions between China and US

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      Private equity wrestles with higher interest rates

      Japan’s prime minister bets on stimulus to tackle the pain of inflation

    • Monday, 6 November, 2023
      Indonesian politics
      Crackdown on illegal mining forces Indonesia to import nickel ore

      Large shipments from the Philippines needed to keep smelters operating

      A worker in front of a fiery furnace at an Indonesian nickel smelter
    • Sunday, 5 November, 2023
      News in-depthJapanese business & finance
      Japan’s scallop industry seeks safe harbour from China ban

      Investors say Beijing’s sanctions could offer an unexpected boost by creating a national champion

      Scallops on shells on a grill in Osaka, Japan
    • Saturday, 4 November, 2023
      Chinese business & finance
      US consultancy Gallup withdraws from China

      Polling group attacked as ‘tool’ to discredit Beijing as foreign companies face rising state scrutiny

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    • Friday, 3 November, 2023
      Corporate bonds
      What does the end of YCC mean for US credit?

      Well, there’s a lot of Japanese money in US corporate debt . . . 

    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      ExplainerJapanese government bonds
      What the end of Japan’s yield curve control experiment means for markets

      Investor reaction to the BoJ removing the hard ceiling on 10-year yields has so far been muted

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    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      News in-depthAustralian politics
      Australia seeks reset with Xi while balancing ties with US

      Anthony Albanese makes state visit to China as tensions over trade ease

      Australia’s prime minister Anthony Albanese, left, and China’s president Xi Jinping meet on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia in November
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      Eswar Prasad
      India must avoid squandering its economic potential

      The nation’s strengths are many but endemic corruption and weak job growth threaten

      A vendor weighs vegetable next to an advertisement of Paytm, a digital payments firm, hanging amidst his vegetables at a roadside market in Mumbai, India,
    • Thursday, 2 November, 2023
      News in-depthJapanese economy
      Japan’s PM Kishida bets on $113bn stimulus to tackle inflation pain

      Tax cuts and cash handouts fail to convince public and could complicate central bank’s policy unwinding

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