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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, 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
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    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’

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

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  • Wednesday, 21 June, 2023
    Volkswagen AG
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    German carmaker responds to accusations it is linked to forced labour

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  • 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

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  • Sunday, 18 June, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
    Israeli-Palestinian conflict
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  • Tuesday, 6 June, 2023
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  • Monday, 29 May, 2023
    UK immigration
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    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
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    A montage showing Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin with a map in the background
  • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
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  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics
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  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
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  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    News in-depthChinese politics & policy
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    Challenge to sovereignty of ex-Soviet states undermines efforts to portray Beijing as peacemaker in Ukraine

    China’s ambassador to France, Lu Shaye
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