Financial Times
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The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news organisations, is recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy. Providing essential news, comment, data and analysis for the global business community, the FT has a combined paid print and digital circulation of 780,000. Mobile is an increasingly important channel for the FT, driving almost half of total traffic. The FT provides a broad range of essential services, including news, comment, data and analysis, to a growing audience of internationally minded professionals.
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Last Updated: July 7, 2016
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12.27.17China to Look at Changing Its Constitution
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China’s Communist party will meet next month to deliberate revisions to the country’s state constitution that would mark the document’s first amendments since 2004.
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12.19.17West Grows Wary of China’s Influence Game
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“Aodaliya renmin zhan qi lai! The Australian people have stood up,” the country’s prime minister Malcolm Turnbull told reporters in mangled Mandarin — a deliberate echo of Mao’s declaration in 1949 that the Chinese people had stood up.
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12.18.17China Property Price Growth Slows to 21-Month Low
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Growth in the cost of new housing in China decelerated for a twelfth straight month in November, according to official figures, marking the slowest rise since early 2016.
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12.13.17Tillerson offers North Korea talks ‘without preconditions’
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US secretary of state Rex Tillerson offered to open direct talks with North Korea “without preconditions” in a new overture to Pyongyang that jars with the more confrontational stance of the White House.
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12.11.17Germany Says China Seeking to Ensnare Officials on LinkedIn
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Chinese intelligence agencies are using social networks such as LinkedIn to establish contact with German politicians and officials, according to a study by Germany’s internal security service.
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11.30.17U.S. Seeks to Deny China Market Economy Status in WTO
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The Trump administration has opposed China’s bid for recognition as a “market economy” in the World Trade Organization, citing decades of legal precedent and what it sees as signs the country is moving in the opposite direction under Xi Jinping.
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11.29.17China Fintech Lending Boom Fuels Risks of Data Theft Black Market in User Details Thrives as Apps Require Borrowers to Grant Access to Phones
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The rise of online consumer loans in China has spawned a thriving black market in stolen user data.
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11.28.17China Jails Taiwanese Rights Activist for 5 Years
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Lee Ming-che, who worked at a college in Taipei and kept regular contact with civil society activists in China via social media platforms, has been held by Chinese authorities since travelling to Guangdong on March 19.
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11.27.17Aung San Suu Kyi Looks to China as Criticism over Rohingya Grows
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Aung San Suu Kyi is to visit China in a sign that Myanmar is drawing closer to Beijing as international condemnation of the violent expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from the country grows.
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11.22.17Donald Trump's Unwitting Surrender to China
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11.20.17Rosneft Deal Boosts Russia-China Relationship
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Russia’s state-run oil group Rosneft has agreed to supply its new partner CEFC China Energy with almost 61m tonnes of oil over the next five years, strengthening the most high-profile corporate link in the burgeoning relationship between Moscow and...
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11.13.17China Recovery Pushes Greenhouse Emissions to Global Record
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Stronger Chinese economic growth will push global greenhouse gas emissions to a record high in 2017 after remaining flat for three years, dashing tentative hopes of a turning point in the world’s efforts to curb climate change.
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11.13.17Taiwan Boosts Cyber Defences Against Threat from China
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Taiwan’s ruling party is bolstering its cyber defences after hacking attacks that have raised fears that groups linked to the Chinese government plan to influence elections.
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11.07.17Bitcoin Proves Hard to Kill in China
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Chinese investors are still trading bitcoin and buying initial coin offerings, suggesting authorities in Beijing are struggling to clamp down on cryptocurrencies just weeks after announcing that public exchanges would be shut down.
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11.03.17China Bank Barred from US Financial System over North Korea Ties
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The U.S. Treasury department has severed a small Chinese bank’s ties with the U.S. financial system over its alleged support for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.