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China’s giant trade surplus has an increasingly geopolitical twist
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (277+ words) It takes quite a lot for a group of nations to line up with Donald Trump’s rogue US administration, but current account imbalances as a result of China’s surplus and competition from Chinese companies have pretty much managed it. At…...
Letter: China may have a solution to maritime cargo overflow
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (253+ words) Record-breaking congestion at maritime ports today can indeed be traced to the advent of the shipping container (“The steel box that built globalisation”, The Big Read, August 20). Not only are ships backed up but so is cargo stored in nautical…...
Big US university endowments outperform S&P 500 index
6+ day, 6+ hour ago (884+ words) Sun Yu in New York A number of big US university endowments are on track to match or outpace the broad stock market, as large weightings in tech groups such as SpaceX and OpenAI help them snap several years of…...
Letter: Governments and Big Tech must act as one on AI challenge
6+ day, 15+ hour ago (36+ words) Financial Times For help please visit help.ft.com. We apologise for any inconvenience. The following information can help our support team to resolve this issue....
Russian gold floods through Hong Kong in wake of western sanctions
1+ week, 7+ hour ago (677+ words) William Sandlund and Haohsiang Ko in Hong Kong Russian gold shipments to Hong Kong have surged this year as the Chinese territory becomes a top trading centre for bullion placed under sanctions by the west. The shift comes at a…...
The new world order? Every man for himself
2+ week, 6+ day ago (505+ words) I heard the late UN secretary-general deliver this gentle “Johnnie Walker” rejoinder on a tour of Tanzania 15 years ago. It was a time when the post-cold war teleology of hope had run its course. And yet an aspirant breeze of…...
???Not worth the squeeze???: global private equity makes zero deals in China
3+ week, 5+ day ago (36+ words) ‘Not worth the squeeze’: global private equity makes zero deals in China Financial Times For help please visit help.ft.com. We apologise for any inconvenience. The following information can help our support team to resolve this issue....
China keeps careful watch on mourning for late premier Zhu Rongji
4+ week, 1+ day ago (1107+ words) William Langley in Heping and Thomas Hale in Shanghai Under the watchful eyes of scores of plain-clothes police, mourners gathered this week at the ancestral home of Chinese late former premier Zhu Rongji. The government has hailed Zhu, who died…...