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    Yuan Yang

    Europe-China correspondent

    Yuan is the Financial Times' Europe-China correspondent. She was previously deputy Beijing bureau chief for the FT. Before that, she covered China's tech sector and economy. She began her journalism career as a Marjorie Dean intern writing about economics at The Economist.

    She is co-founder of the campaign, Rethinking Economics, that calls for a more relevant curriculum that reflects the real world.

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    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
      What does China ‘de-risking’ actually mean?

      Dealmaking languishes at decade low on private equity drought

    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      News in-depthChinese business & finance
      Western companies take slow steps towards China ‘de-risking’

      Most strategies are focusing on ways to insulate China operations rather than reduce them

      Western company logos with China flag
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      FT SeriesThe Return of Big Government
      What happened to the wealth tax?

      Proposals have struggled politically but some economists say the idea is due a resurgence

    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      News in-depthUK foreign policy
      Arrest of alleged spy raises questions around UK’s China policy

      Critics say London is too soft on Beijing as MPs ask whether their safety is at risk

      Montage of parliament building, a figure in silhouette, and a Chinese communist party logo
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Political espionage
      Senior UK minister says ‘strong case’ for new action against China

      Cabinet Office minister Oliver Dowden confirms that government is considering tougher controls on Beijing

      The Houses of Parliament in London
    • Thursday, 7 September, 2023
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Waiting To Be Arrested At Night — how to confront authoritarian power

      Poet Tahir Hamut Izgil has written a compelling and elegant first-person account of resisting China’s crackdown on Islam

      The board in the Atajurt office with photos and information of Kazakhs detained in Chinese detention camps
    • Saturday, 26 August, 2023
      ObituaryIsabel Crook
      Isabel Crook, anthropologist and chronicler of China’s communist revolution, 1915-2023

      A sympathetic westerner who became a participant-observer as the country transformed

    • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
      UK economy
      Britain can learn lessons from Taiwan’s industrial strategy

      A difficult inheritance can be overcome by working on ‘social infrastructure’

      A semiconductor wafer is shown on screen at Hsinchu Science Park in Hsinchu, Taiwan
    • Wednesday, 5 July, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      China’s efforts to understand Europe remain a work in progress

      The war in Ukraine exposes the flaws in Beijing’s thinking

      Vladimir Putin, left, gestures while speaking to Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, last September
    • Saturday, 24 June, 2023
      News in-depthEU-China relations
      China’s premier avoids ‘factional confrontation’ with Europe on maiden trip

      Li Qiang says EU ‘de-risking’ strategy need not jeopardise economic ties with Beijing

      Li Qiang offers a toast during a working lunch with the French prime minister in Paris
    • Friday, 23 June, 2023
      Zambia
      Zambia agrees ‘milestone’ debt relief plan with China and other creditors

      Agreement ends years of fraught talks and tackles roughly half of $13bn of external borrowing

      Zambia’s President Hakainde Hichilema:
    • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
      Volkswagen AG
      Volkswagen plans external audit of controversial plant in Xinjiang

      German carmaker responds to accusations it is linked to forced labour

      The assembly line at the Xinjiang car plant
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Human rights
      Volkswagen, BMW and Mercedes hit by Xinjiang forced labour complaint

      Carmakers are the target of one the first cases brought under Germany’s new supply chain law

      Shanghai Volkswagen, a joint venture between Volkswagen Group and SAIC Motor
    • Tuesday, 20 June, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      German chancellor presses China to give western companies ‘level playing field’

      Olaf Scholz tells Chinese premier Li Qiang he wants economic co-operation to continue

      Li Qiang, left, and Olaf Scholz stand behind Zheng Shanjie, chair of China’s National Development and Reform Commission, second left, and Mercedes chief Ola Källenius at an MOU signing ceremony
    • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
      News in-depthGerman politics
      Olaf Scholz to tread fine line in meeting with Chinese government

      German officials describe themselves as ‘free traders’ but say ‘we’re not stupid’

      Olaf Scholz and Xi Jinping
    • Friday, 16 June, 2023
      Pirelli & C SpA
      Italy set to limit shareholder rights of Chinese owner in Pirelli

      Data-collecting tech in tyres deemed of national security importance as governance dispute with Sinochem hots up

      Chinese chemical group Sinochem bought majority stake in Pirelli in 2015
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Israeli-Palestinian conflict
      China steps up diplomacy with offer to mediate in Israeli-Palestinian conflict

      Beijing seeks to expand Middle East role after brokering Saudi Arabia-Iran deal

      Mahmoud Abbas, left, shakes hands with China’s president Xi Jinping in Beijing on Wednesday
    • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      This is Europe — Ben Judah’s thrilling tales on what it is to be European

      A collection of first-hand narratives that explore the danger, uncertainty and aspirations of living in Europe

      Lorries at a port
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      UK surveillance legislation
      UK to strip Chinese surveillance cameras from sensitive government sites

      Ministers to publish timeline for removal of equipment manufactured by companies including Dahua and Hikvision

      Hikvision CCTV cameras
    • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
      News in-depthPirelli & C SpA
      ‘Pirelli is in peril’: Pressure rises over Chinese grip on Italian tyremaker

      Rome assesses whether to limit state-owned ChemChina’s voting rights or force it to sell down 37% stake

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      The Big Read
      Has China become too cosy with private equity?

      State-backed investors have poured money into buyout groups, enabling Beijing to deploy hundreds of billions of dollars into western companies and economies even as the political mood has shifted

      Montage image of a vet, and solar panels, with logos of China Investment Corporation and HK Monetary Authority
    • Monday, 29 May, 2023
      UK immigration
      ‘We are all thinking about how to contribute’: Hongkongers boost Britain’s suburbs

      Immigration influx brings a highly skilled workforce that is eager to integrate

      Wing-sun Chan director of a community organisation called Trafford Hongkongers
    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Natural gas
      Power of Siberia: China keeps Putin waiting on gas pipeline

      Beijing is driving a hard bargain as Moscow presses for a new Sino-Russian pipeline through Mongolia

      A montage showing Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin with a map in the background
    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Italian politics
      Italy to hold talks with China about exiting Belt and Road Initiative

      Prime minister Giorgia Meloni says ‘debate is open’ on whether to leave Xi Jinping’s foreign investment programme

      Giorgia Meloni and Xi Jinping
    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics
      China seeks ‘damage control’ on Ukraine with Zelenskyy call

      Presidential talks aim to ensure Beijing has role in postwar settlement, say experts

      Montage of Xi Jinping and Volodymyr Zelenskyy
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