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Kathrin Hille

Greater China correspondent

Kathrin Hille writes about Taiwan, regional security and hardware technology for the FT. She was previously the FT’s Moscow bureau chief, a correspondent in the Beijing bureau and Taiwan correspondent. Before she joined the FT, she was world news editor at Financial Times Deutschland and editor at AsiaBridge, a German monthly industry magazine.
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  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    US-China relations
    China steps up condemnation of balloon shooting by US

    Formal protest lodged at embassy in Beijing accuses Washington of ‘indiscriminate use of military force’

  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    News in-depthChinese military
    China’s military keeps rivals on edge with balloon strategy

    Data gathered by swelling ‘lighter than air’ programme could have defence applications

  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    Philippines
    Philippines grants US access to four military bases

    Allies boost efforts to jointly push back against aggression from China

  • Tuesday, 31 January, 2023
    US-China relations
    Washington halts licences for US companies to export to Huawei

    White House moves closer to imposing total ban on sale of American tech to Chinese group

  • Wednesday, 25 January, 2023
    Taiwan
    Taiwan’s Tsai Ing-wen names new premier to shore up support

    Former vice-president Chen Chien-jen credited with successful early response to Covid

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    News in-depthTaiwan
    Taiwan presidential contender sparks US concerns over China tensions

    Victory for vice-president Lai Ching-te in ruling party poll foreshadows turbulent year in cross-Strait ties

  • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
    US-China relations
    US military deepens ties with Japan and Philippines to prepare for China threat

    Top Marine Corps general James Bierman outlines sweeping reform to adapt force for possible conflict over Taiwan

  • Friday, 6 January, 2023
    Taiwan
    Taiwan plans domestic satellite champion to resist any China attack

    Country wants to emulate Elon Musk’s Starlink in wake of Ukraine war with low-Earth orbit start-up

  • Wednesday, 4 January, 2023
    Philippines
    China and Philippines vow to handle maritime tensions with ‘friendly consultations’

    Xi Jinping and Ferdinand Marcos Jr agree to bolster economic ties in a meeting in Beijing

  • Monday, 2 January, 2023
    News in-depthTaiwan
    Taiwan counts on military conscription reform to deter China invasion

    Plan to extend compulsory training falls short of what is needed, experts warn

  • Friday, 30 December, 2022
    Chinese military
    US accuses Chinese fighter jet of ‘unsafe manoeuvre’ that risked collision

    Aircraft came within 6 metres over South China Sea on same day PLA simulated attack on American naval group

  • Tuesday, 27 December, 2022
    Taiwan
    Taiwan to extend conscription to a year in bid to counter China threat

    Compulsory military service will be made more rigorous and pay quadrupled in first tranche of defence reforms

  • Monday, 26 December, 2022
    Taiwan
    China launches military drills around Taiwan after US passes defence act

    PLA jets violate airspace in biggest show of force since Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taipei in August

  • Friday, 23 December, 2022
    Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
    Chipmaker TSMC in talks with suppliers over first European plant

    Company to send senior executives to Dresden early next year to discuss potential factory project in Germany

  • Wednesday, 21 December, 2022
    US-China trade dispute
    US targets China’s potential chip stars with new restrictions

    Companies added to trade blacklist previously flew under the radar

  • Thursday, 15 December, 2022
    US-China trade dispute
    US adds 36 Chinese companies to trade blacklist

    ‘Entity list’ changes are focused on limiting development of advanced chips in China

  • Wednesday, 7 December, 2022
    Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd
    TSMC triples Arizona chip investment to $40bn

    US president hails Taiwanese chipmaker’s second plant as boost for the country’s manufacturing

  • Monday, 5 December, 2022
    Foxconn Technology Group
    Covid chaos at Foxconn iPhone plant causes 29% revenue fall

    World’s biggest contract electronics manufacturer says Zhengzhou outbreak is now under control

  • Friday, 2 December, 2022
    News in-depthFoxconn Technology Group
    Inside the Covid revolt at the Zhengzhou ‘iPhone City’ plant

    Foxconn plant workers tell FT of chaos that reveals Apple’s vulnerabilities to Chinese manufacturing shocks

  • Sunday, 27 November, 2022
    Taiwan
    Scion of Taiwan’s late dictator Chiang Kai-shek wins in local elections

    Former leader’s great-grandson Wayne Chiang to be mayor of Taipei in victory for Kuomintang party

  • Tuesday, 22 November, 2022
    Asia maritime tensions
    US vice-president visits Philippine island off contested South China Sea

    Kamala Harris’s high-profile tour intended to show support for ally and counter Chinese assertiveness in region

  • Monday, 14 November, 2022
    Semiconductors
    China’s chip tool makers struggle to profit at home from US export controls

    Orders rise in short term, but domestic suppliers lag in supporting advanced semiconductor technology

  • Sunday, 13 November, 2022
    News in-depthUS-China relations
    Biden and Xi try to steady collapsing US-China relations in first meeting

    Beijing and Washington at odds over issues including trade, Taiwan, nuclear weapons and Russia

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Taiwan
    US warns Europe a conflict over Taiwan could cause global economic shock

    Sharing of research comes amid rising concern about military action in the Indo-Pacific

  • Thursday, 10 November, 2022
    Foxconn Technology Group
    Foxconn to keep expanding in China despite Covid disruption

    Apple’s main iPhone supplier says geopolitics more likely to prompt diversification

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