Only if he is actually being investigated. It gets immediately memory holed if this happened to be baseless rumor milling or shoddy information (as the author has insider info). It’s not like FT will release an apology six months later or even revise this article. Let’s be real, pretty much all news media (not just western) are clickbait machines no different than the average YouTuber making vids about country collapse in 5 days. Facts are always going to be secondary to clickbait, as it’s how they make their money.
Thats my rule of thumb. Im getting too old for giving them anymore benefit of the doubt.
It will actually force China to produce more - bullish for China's manufacturing.
Let me guess: Xiao Gonggin is just another delusional liberal Chinese "scholar" who think Russia and Putin are chopped liver. In reality, Trump may well continue the war in Ukraine:
No. Any article that quotes unnamed "former officials" as source has no credibility.
He is the one who in the early 2010s insisted that China was the second Japan and its growth rate would average 2-3% through out the 2010s.
From Arnaud Bertrand:
When you throw shit against the wall, some are bound to stick. Their success rate is probably like flipping a coin.
Is FT british or japanese media?