When HSBC ,opened its doors in Hong Kong and Shanghai in 1865, Chinese trade flows were just bubbling up again after the ...

The 13-floor building was completed in 1929, a time when large parts of Shanghai were occupied by colonial forces and the Sassoons, after whom the Sassoon House was named, were among the richest and ...

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Utterly ruthless, fiercely driven to return his country to global dominance and no lover of the UK, Xi Jinping's past should ...

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Volume two covers the subsequent period through Japan’s World War II defeat of 1945. The second volume also notes that the Manchukuo government forced opium addicts and other drug users to work ...

Hong Kong has a free market economy, highly dependent on international trade and finance - the value of goods and services trade, including the sizable share of reexports, is about four times GDP.

However, the garden ended up taking some hits, enduring both British occupation during the Opium Wars and again by the French during the Taiping Rebellion. Despite the turmoil, the garden remained ...

But at the end of the day, there was little daylight between the China policy of Trump, who launched a trade war and ramped up tariffs, and that of President Joe Biden, who maintained the tariffs ...

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