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Edward White is an award-winning journalist and China correspondent since 2021. He was previously the FT’s Seoul bureau chief, covering North Korea and South Korea, a correspondent in Taiwan and breaking news reporter.
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  • Tuesday, 12 September, 2023
    News in-depthAutomobiles
    China set to overtake Japan as world’s biggest car exporter

    Foreign shipments boost industry as domestic carmakers struggle to sell at home

    Vehicles assembled for loading at Yantai port in Shandong province, China
  • Monday, 11 September, 2023
    Inside BusinessChinese business & finance
    China’s business confidence problem

    Unpredictable regulations and sudden crackdowns still weigh on entrepreneurial spirits

    A man waves a paper dragon on a stick in front of the Shanghai waterfront. Skyscrapers from the city’s business district can be seen in the background
  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    Batteries
    China’s battery plant rush raises fears of global squeeze

    State subsidies follow steel and solar panel playbook in reinforcing race for market share

  • Monday, 4 September, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    Xi puts China’s security ahead of tackling its economic woes

    Leadership wary of enacting stimulus that adds to government debt or risks financial instability

    Chinese president Xi Jinping, centre, speaks at the Brics summit in South Africa
  • Sunday, 3 September, 2023
    Asia-Pacific economy
    China’s economic slowdown reverberates across Asia

    South Korea mired in longest manufacturing slump since 1970s

    Pedestrians in the Myeongdong shopping district of Seoul, South Korea
  • Friday, 1 September, 2023
    Rugby
    Rugby needs to be more exciting to attract younger fans, says New Zealand chief

    Comments by Mark Robinson come ahead of men’s World Cup in France

    New Zealand’s Beauden Barrett is tackled by South Africa’s Faf de Klerk during a World Cup warm-up match at Twickenham last week
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    OutlookOutlook
    Mongolia’s rocky road to prosperity

    Government vision for a modern economy and trading links faces internal doubts from a population hit by social problems

    Ömnögovi province, Mongolia
  • Wednesday, 30 August, 2023
    Chinese corruption
    China’s corruption crackdown rips through healthcare sector

    Efforts to tackle bribery and fraud could have far-reaching impact on doctors, patients and multinational drugmakers

    Medical staff working in a neonatal care unit in Guizhou province, China
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    BYD Co Ltd
    BYD’s first-half profits surge despite price war in Chinese car market

    Warren Buffett-backed group cements its dominance of domestic electric vehicle sector

    A BYD car on a display stand
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    FT SeriesThe battery revolution
    Can anyone challenge China’s EV battery dominance?

    Technology breakthroughs and trade barriers will be needed to take on CATL and BYD

  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    Chinese economy
    The local government debt that threatens China’s economy

    How the country’s regional authorities accumulated a mountain of borrowings — and how they hope to resolve it

    Duge Bridge
  • Tuesday, 22 August, 2023
    Batteries
    China’s cathode billionaire targets US battery market via South Korea IPO

    Ronbay Technology looks to split to avoid Washington’s tariffs and access subsidies

  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    Storm clouds gather over Xi Jinping’s political beach retreat

    China’s economic downturn and flaring US tensions mar annual Beidaihe leadership gathering

    People on the beach at Beidaihe
  • Friday, 11 August, 2023
    Political espionage
    Beijing claims to arrest Chinese national over spying for US

    Rare disclosure says military-industrial group employee was recruited by CIA operative in Italy

    A Chinese flag flutters outside the Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    The Big Read
    How China cornered the market for clean tech

    The country is the biggest supplier of materials vital for the energy transition. That could give it geopolitical leverage

    Illustration of a giant red hand with the yellow stars from China’s flag on it, clutching a handful of solar panels and wind turbines against a background with symbols of critical mineral from the periodic table
  • Wednesday, 9 August, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
    TED talks cross free speech ‘red line’ in Xi’s China

    Authorities cancel upcoming event citing breach of restrictions on foreign NGO activities

    An illustration of a microphone with the TEDx logo and the yellow stars of the Chinese flag
  • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
    InterviewLeadership
    Human Rights Watch’s Tirana Hassan: ‘I had seen too many of my colleagues turn to alcohol’

    Head of the international charity on the personal toll of investigating the world’s dark corners

    Tirana Hassan, wearing black suit and white blouse, sits on a long red sofa
  • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
    Copper
    Miner Rio Tinto to test ‘new frontiers’ as copper age dawns

    Anglo-Australian group rethinks strategy in race to extract metal vital for clean energy transition

    A worker at Rio’s Oyu Tolgoi mine in southern Mongolia
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    Belt and Road Initiative
    China’s overseas investment in metals and mining set to hit record

    Beijing intensifies efforts to lock up access to renewable energy supply chain

    Construction of a railway in Indonesia
  • Monday, 31 July, 2023
    News in-depthChinese corruption
    ‘Absolute loyalty’: Xi turns anti-corruption focus to China’s military

    Senior officers in nuclear weapons division under scrutiny as president strengthens party’s control over armed forces

    Visitors stand in front of a giant screen displaying President Xi Jinping next to a flag of the Chinese Communist party at a military museum in Beijing
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Person in the News
    Wang Yi, the return of China’s tough foreign minister

    After Qin Gang’s mysterious disappearance, Xi’s trusted old hand finds himself with even more to do

    Illustration of Wang Yi putting on his blazer with a lanyard round his neck reading ‘Wang Yi, Foreign Minister. On a coatstand in the background is another blazer and a lanyard reading ‘Qin Gang, Foreign Minister
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Climate change
    China accused of using ‘wrecking tactics’ at climate talks

    Impasse at G20 despite moves by Washington and Beijing to rekindle bilateral discussions

    The G20 meeting is being held in Chennai, India
  • Friday, 28 July, 2023
    Hong Kong politics
    Beijing pushes for Hong Kong’s leader to attend Apec summit in US

    China says John Lee should get invite to economic gathering after report suggests he would be barred entry

    Hong Kong chief executive John Lee
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    Chinese electric-car shares boosted by VW investment in Xpeng

    German group’s 5% stake will give it one seat as an ‘observer’ on Chinese carmaker’s board

    Xpeng’s flagship store in Beijing
  • Thursday, 27 July, 2023
    The Big Read
    Will Mongolia’s crackdown on graft unlock its mineral riches?

    The landlocked country is making sweeping reforms to win over western investors and become less reliant on China and Russia

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