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    Robin Harding

    Asia editor and an assistant editor

    Robin Harding is the FT's Asia editor. Previously he was the FT's Tokyo bureau chief for six years, covering Japan's politics and economy, asian markets and China's impact in the region. Until 2015 he was based in Washington covering the US federal reserve, the treasury and the IMF.
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    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
      Coronavirus pandemic
      The rest of the world should watch what is happening in Shanghai

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

    • 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

    • 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

    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      News in-depthFutures contracts
      Hong Kong breaks Singapore’s grip on China stock futures

      Battle between rival exchanges for control comes as demand booms for Chinese equities

    • Sunday, 23 January, 2022
      Hong Kong
      Don’t write off Hong Kong as a financial centre just yet

      Despite a political crackdown, people who want to move capital into China will continue to use the territory to do so

    • Friday, 24 December, 2021
      Coronavirus economic impact
      Omicron forces Asian countries to abandon reopening of borders

      Strict travel controls threaten to damage the region’s economic recovery next year

    • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
      Global Economy
      Human progress stumbles on, pandemic or no pandemic

      Even during a health emergency, the capitalist system delivered enough growth to lift people out of poverty

    • Wednesday, 1 December, 2021
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan’s former PM warns China invading Taiwan would be an ‘emergency’ for Tokyo

      Shinzo Abe hints invasion could meet the conditions for Japan to use military force

    • Monday, 29 November, 2021
      Coronavirus pandemic
      WHO warns of ‘very high’ risk from Omicron coronavirus variant

      Japan moves to ban foreign visitors to limit spread of heavily mutated strain

    • Friday, 26 November, 2021
      Japanese politics & policy
      Japan approves extra defence spending amid concerns over China’s rising power

      The $6.8bn package will take country’s military spending to its highest level since the 1950s

    • Thursday, 25 November, 2021
      Asia-Pacific economy
      Asia is the global inflation exception

      The region is not experiencing the sharp price rises seen elsewhere because it handled the pandemic better

    • Tuesday, 2 November, 2021
      Asia-Pacific economy
      Australian central bank tightens monetary policy to deal with price surge

      RBA abandons yield curve control scheme launched during pandemic and sets potential precedent for peers

    • Thursday, 28 October, 2021
      Chinese economy
      China needs to learn lessons from Japan’s 1990s collapse

      The longer Beijing takes to address its housing market bubble and accept a lower level of growth the worse the pain will be

    • Friday, 22 October, 2021
      News in-depthJapanese politics & policy
      Japanese PM Kishida’s family links to Taiwan raise hopes of deeper ties

      Taipei anticipates new leader’s connections will boost support as Chinese assertiveness grows

    • Monday, 20 September, 2021
      News in-depthChinese trade
      China must win over Canada and Australia before trade pact talks can start

      Beijing says application to join the CPTPP shows commitment to financial reform but hurdles await

    • Thursday, 16 September, 2021
      US foreign policy
      China lashes out at Australia, UK and US over security pact

      Canberra scraps French submarine programme to sign deal with Washington and London

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