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Robin Harding

Asia editor

Robin Harding is the FT's Asia editor, responsible for our journalism from Australia to Afghanistan, following a stint as Tokyo bureau chief from 2015-2021.

Harding also writes on the global economy for the opinion page, having previously worked as US economics editor in Washington DC from 2010-2014, where he covered the US Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the IMF.

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  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Equities
    Are Chinese stocks a value trade or a value trap?

    When an asset is declared ‘uninvestable’ it is often time to buy

    Illustration of a panda casting a shadow over lots of numbers
  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
    Technology sector
    Victim? Villain? Huawei finds itself trapped in US-China dispute

    Judging which incompatible version of the truth is correct is impossible

    A man is pulled in four directions as four large hands grasp his hands and feet in front of the Huawei corporate logo
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Chinese economy
    China’s demand dilemma could spell trouble for the world

    The other G20 countries should signal consensus against Beijing running a big surplus

    James Ferguson illustration of a panda bear with a huge cargo box on its back, holding onto a red graph line that has snapped and is falling.
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    China Economic Slowdown
    Beijing must start spending to secure China’s economic future

    To stop a problem becoming a crisis, the government needs to intervene

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a red cap crane bird running down the line of a graph with its head turned back, holding a red ribbon in its beak that waves back at the vertical line of a graph
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    The Millionaires’ Factory — the rise and rise of Macquarie

    Joyce Moullakis and Chris Wright trace how a small Australian merchant bank became a global behemoth

  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Thailand
    Thai election winner blocked from premiership

    Senators reject Pita Limjaroenrat’s candidacy as court suspends him from parliament

    Pita Limjaroenrat sits inside the Thai parliament
  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    News in-depthThailand
    Role of monarchy at heart of battle for Thailand’s future

    Senators appointed by former military junta have kept Pita Limjaroenrat out of government

    Supporters hold a picture of prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat after he was blocked from power by Thailand’s national assembly
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Thailand
    Thailand faces political deadlock after election winner blocked from power

    Senators appointed by former military junta reject Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to become prime minister

    Election winner Pita Limjaroenrat
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Chinese business & finance
    China to deploy deposit insurance to repay victims of rural banking fraud

    Central bank agrees to share cost with local government in precedent for resolving future financial crises

    Security guards scuffle with demonstrators during a protest outside a People’s Bank of China branch in Henan, China, in July 2022
  • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
    InterviewCitadel LLC
    Citadel’s Griffin optimistic on growth in China

    Billionaire investor warns it will be ‘ugly’ for the US if the Chinese economy falters

    A picture of Ken Griffin speaking
  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
    Banks
    SVB’s collapse was one thing, Credit Suisse’s quite another

    If a run on a liquid, well-capitalised bank is possible, it could happen to anyone

    James Ferguson illustration of a Credit Suisse building with the face of the killer from the movie ‘Scream’ projected on to its facade
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    Bank of Japan
    The dovish case for the BoJ to abolish yield curve control

    New governor Kazuo Ueda has the toughest job in central banking

    Kazuo Ueda
  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    InterviewAustralian politics
    Australia’s treasurer says $2.3tn pensions pool should fund ‘nation-building’

    Jim Chalmers argues energy and social care investments would not compromise retirement savings

    Australia’s treasurer Jim Chalmers
  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    Beware the great battery industry fallacy

    Despite the rush for dominance, the economics are not promising

  • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
    Hong Kong economy
    Hong Kong’s dollar peg is on increasingly thin ice

    Economically, it is close to impregnable. Politically, it is at the whim of the China-US relationship

    Three Hong Kong 100-dollar bills are clipped by clothes pegs that are decorated with the American stars and stripes
  • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
    Chinese economy
    Slowing Chinese growth is a recipe for global instability

    Beijing contemplates a future in which its economy remains well below the income levels of the US

    A man rides a bicycle through a wet market in China, while a woman in the foreground wears a mask and looks at her phone
  • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
    Japan
    Japan mourns Shinzo Abe as police investigate fatal shooting

    Crowds gather to pay respects to former prime minister at a memorial site close to where he was attacked

    People line up on Saturday to place flowers at a makeshift memorial outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara where former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday
  • Monday, 4 July, 2022
    The Big Read
    Global inflation: Japan faces a moment of truth

    The collapse of the yen piles pressure on the central bank to change course after decades of loose monetary policy

    Montage of images of a yen note and a dollar bill and Haruhiko Kuroda with a red graph line showing the decline in the yen
  • Monday, 27 June, 2022
    Special ReportThe Future of Cities
    Radical neighbourhood redevelopment model splits opinion in Tokyo

    Mori Building pioneered developing large areas of the city, attracting interest across Asia

    Mori Tower, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
  • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
    Chinese trade
    Electric vehicles accelerate China’s looming dominance as a car exporter

    For Japanese and European carmakers, the challenge is that while EVs may be high-tech, they are not complex

    Rows of electric vehicles to be shipped abroad at Nangang port in Shanghai
  • Friday, 20 May, 2022
    Japanese economy
    ‘Different from the US’: why Japan does not worry about inflation

    After decades of stagnation, workers no longer demand higher wages and companies do not pass on price rises

    The Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo
  • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
    Yen
    Yen slides to 20-year low as BoJ defies global shift to higher rates

    Currency’s fall through ¥130 against the dollar follows central bank vow to keep bond yields at zero

    A Japanese flag over the Bank of Japan
  • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
    Coronavirus
    The rest of the world should watch what is happening in Shanghai

    Covid lockdown in China’s biggest city will have global economic reverberations

    A James Ferguson illustration featuring the Chinese flag, with outlines of people in protective garb replacing the five stars
  • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
    InterviewJapanese economy
    Japan must hit inflation target via domestic demand, Kishida aide insists

    Powerful adviser Seiji Kihara rules out Japan quitting joint energy projects with Russia

    Shoppers in protective face masks at a supermarket in Tokyo
  • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
    US Dollar
    Toppling the dollar as reserve currency risks harmful fragmentation

    Sanctions against Russia have spurred calls for an alternative holding, but this would only destabilise the financial system

    The 1881 painting by Robert Gibb showing the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot standing against Russian cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War
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