Advertisement With its decision to exclude Huawei from Britain’s 5G network on July 14, the Boris Johnson government finally managed to put an end to the protracted debate on whether or not to allow the Chinese company’s involvement. London had been under heavy pressure from both Washington and Beijing and […]

Bill Gates has met the last three Chinese presidents, most recently Xi Jinping, and Microsoft has a strong position in China, with its search engine, browser and applications in wide use © FT montage; Getty Images More than two decades of efforts by Microsoft to put down roots in China […]

Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has threatened a broad crackdown on Chinese tech companies with access to American data, including barring an unspecified number of the country’s apps and limiting its cloud computing groups that operate on American soil. The threatened restrictions also include blocking Chinese telecoms companies […]

SYDNEY — The first Air China flight from Beijing to Brisbane has landed safely on Monday afternoon, with the new route set to be a huge boon for the Australian State of Queensland. The 12 and a half hours flight will operate four times per week between the two cities […]

China’s efforts to curb predatory lending to the country’s small and medium-sized enterprises could harm the sector rather than helping it by cutting off access to crucial finance, analysts have warned. Multiple shadow banking lenders have told the Financial Times they would stop servicing medium to high-risk borrowers after the […]

Advertisement The rise of China, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic present challenges and opportunities for the Indo-Pacific region. For a perspective on these matters, Jongsoo Lee interviews Kevin Rudd, president of the Asia Society Policy Institute and former prime minister (2007-2010, 2013) and foreign minister (2010-2012) of Australia. In […]

TV-based home shopping is seen as irretrievably naff by many in the US and Europe. But the same business model is propelling the hottest trend in Chinese retail. Today, more than 30m people in China at any one time watch shopping livestreams on their smartphones. A tap takes them to […]

To some extent, the People’s Bank of China followed a common playbook — but not for long © REUTERS On the face of it, the miserable state of the global economy makes it seem odd that any central bank might be characterised these days as hawkish. And yet that is […]

The US is sending the highest level cabinet official to Taiwan since cutting diplomatic ties with Taipei 41 years ago, reflecting rising support for the country in Washington in the face of growing Chinese aggression. Alex Azar, the US health secretary, will lead a delegation to Taipei “in the coming […]

Since it was first proposed in 2006, the contention that “data is the new oil” has gradually charmed its way into mainstream discourse as a neat and comprehensible explanation of something messy and incomprehensible. The equivalence, however stretched, is alluring. The idea that the modern world has conferred stupendous commercial […]