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Joe Leahy is the FT’s Beijing Bureau Chief. Previously, he was Asia News Editor, Brazil Bureau Chief, Mumbai Bureau Chief, Asia Companies Editor and Hong Kong Correspondent. He has also worked in Indonesia. He won “Journalist of the Year” in the Society of Publishers in Asia awards in 2009.
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    Authorities hope festive season will lift the world’s second-largest economy out of deflation

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  • Thursday, 8 February, 2024
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    Xi and Putin reject US ‘interference’ and pledge industrial co-operation

    Chinese and Russian leaders discuss Taiwan and Ukraine in conversation that underscores determination to counter US

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    Chinese economy
    China’s prices fall at fastest rate in 15 years as economy battles deflation

    Analysts warn prolonged price declines will undermine business and consumer confidence

    A man puts oranges in a plastic bag at a grocery store in Beijing
  • Wednesday, 7 February, 2024
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    China removes head of market regulator as it battles stock meltdown

    Securities commission chair Yi Huiman seen as ‘scapegoat’ for plunge in share prices in recent months

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  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
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    Divergence between official data on the economy and other sources is rising as an issue for business

    A woman in a raincoat walks in a street in Beijing
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    Hui Ka Yan: the Evergrande tycoon faces his downfall

    Once the richest man in China, the liquidation of his property empire marks the end of an era

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    AmCham warns that majority of companies are still unprofitable in a ‘wake-up call’ to Beijing

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  • Wednesday, 31 January, 2024
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    China’s manufacturing activity contracts for fourth month

    Non-manufacturing index climbs into positive territory but concerns remain about weak confidence

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  • Tuesday, 30 January, 2024
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    The looming trade tensions over China’s subsidies

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    Beijing meeting aims to advance agreements between Joe Biden and Xi Jinping during summit last year

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  • Friday, 26 January, 2024
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    China says UK businessman imprisoned for ‘providing intelligence’

    News of 2022 conviction will add to fears among foreign executives and professionals in the country

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  • Wednesday, 24 January, 2024
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    China cuts bank reserve ratio to boost growth as sentiment sours

    People’s Bank of China promises ‘good monetary and financial environment for the economy’ amid stock market rout

    The building of the People’s Bank of China in Beijing, with the flag of China in front
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
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    Ministry of State Security pursues more public and political role as Xi tightens grip on nation

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  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Chinese foreign policy
    China pushes for safety of Red Sea shipping as threat to its economy grows

    Officials stop short of signalling diplomatic or military assistance to defuse crisis in crucial waterway

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  • Friday, 19 January, 2024
    Chinese equities
    Chinese stock rout accelerates as foreign investors sell out

    Fall in Hong Kong and Chinese indices defies many Wall Street banks’ hopes of rebound after last year’s losses

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  • Thursday, 18 January, 2024
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    China is not out of the woods yet

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  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
    US-China relations
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    Visit is latest sign of easing tensions between the countries after Biden-Xi summit last year

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  • Wednesday, 17 January, 2024
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    China’s population decline accelerates as economy reaches low growth target

    Policymakers face deepening property sector crisis along with deflationary and demographic pressures

    People walk below Oriental Pearl Tower in the Liuiazui financial hub, in Shanghai, China
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Chinese economy
    Li Qiang says China’s economy grew an ‘estimated’ 5.2% in 2023

    Premier hails ‘steady’ economic progress in Davos speech but calls on world to address ‘trust deficit’ among nations

    China’s premier Li Qiang
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
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    China’s economy faces ‘critical year’ to dispel deflation and revive confidence

    Beijing forecast to exceed 2023 growth target but outlook is tougher as consumers remain cautious

    Montage showing man in surgical mask pulling notes from his wallet in front of graphs showing falling prices
  • Tuesday, 16 January, 2024
    Asia-Pacific equities
    Beijing tells some investors not to sell as Chinese stock rout resumes

    Traders say process of easing and then reimposing informal curbs is undermining market confidence

    A woman walking past a screen showing stock exchange data in Shanghai, China
  • Monday, 15 January, 2024
    Taiwan
    Taiwan loses diplomatic recognition of Nauru in wake of election

    Pacific nation cuts ties with Taipei in favour of Beijing after Lai Ching-te elected president

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  • Sunday, 14 January, 2024
    Taiwan
    What Taiwanese voters’ defiance means for China

    Beijing focuses on fall in support for the DPP even though the party it views as separatist won the election

  • Friday, 12 January, 2024
    Myanmar
    China brokers ceasefire between Myanmar military and rebel alliance

    Beijing’s mediation follows growing concern about civil war near its southern border

    Members of ethnic minority armed group Ta’ang National Liberation Army standing guard in a temple area in Myanmar’s northern Shan State
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