Asia & Pacific News

Washington urges Japan, South Korea and the Netherlands to tighten supply of tools and technology

https://www.ft.com/content/4ecea0a7-a5cd-40b0-8a24-b72c1c1a8996

More than halfway through its incentives spending, the US will have far greater scope to manage shocks

https://www.ft.com/content/26756186-99e5-448f-a451-f5e307b13723

Biosecure Act would prohibit American companies receiving federal grant money from working with some Chinese groups

https://www.ft.com/content/f3b5f2e5-1abc-4848-8ff2-66891d5f5984

Promotion of Hong Kong based insider Hidehiro Imatsu follows months-long leadership vacuum

https://www.ft.com/content/6a8301c2-53dd-4709-b981-e66ba06a8abd

Insiders say ByteDance exerting increasing influence over platform despite US pressure over ownership

https://www.ft.com/content/0e040c03-e979-4acd-a6aa-6298301dcc42

Doubts over the credibility of economic and corporate statistics

https://www.ft.com/content/a0e26d4a-b3d4-47e8-95ee-25d57dd20b49

Secretary of state expected to demand Beijing cease support for Russia’s war in Ukraine

https://www.ft.com/content/ef9d2f6f-3ef6-4249-af0c-649583e0ee43

Yen’s 34-year low against dollar complicates task for BoJ governor Kazuo Ueda a month after ending negative rates era

https://www.ft.com/content/da95c3ed-733d-4f2a-be24-003331fc7e44

Also in this newsletter: Waiting for Emmanuel Macron’s words of wisdom

https://www.ft.com/content/b7ccd2fe-d767-4ea7-9f72-c21c80b4e2cc

Western policymakers ignore changing global power relations at their peril

https://www.ft.com/content/f05826c0-d030-4fa4-89d1-72a1b73dec3d

The company’s global plans range from solar modules and electric buses, trucks and trains to complex transport systems. But is it trying to do too much?

https://www.ft.com/content/b8bde0b5-7484-45bf-a1e0-475a3ac91bd6

Security equipment supplier’s machines are widely used at borders around the continent under public contracts

https://www.ft.com/content/b72069ec-e748-46f8-a936-de22a7446238

Chatbots will soon take over much of the work of human agents, forecasts chief of Indian IT group

https://www.ft.com/content/149681f0-ea71-42b0-b85b-86073354fb73

Pentagon rushes $1bn in weapons to Kyiv after Biden signs aid bill

https://www.ft.com/content/0fa3fc06-d977-42e5-81b1-6dec957942cc

John Deng targets India ‘opportunity’ after breakthroughs with US, UK and Canada

https://www.ft.com/content/c3bde062-e308-409b-8832-ca6acaf4febb

Tokyo urges alliances to stay competitive but companies wary of giving up control

https://www.ft.com/content/cb4cb6c2-c2cc-406a-917f-e969ee58cbff

US president’s campaign has posted on Chinese-owned video app in attempt to appeal to younger voters

https://www.ft.com/content/fdf5ddac-36a2-4bc1-bc46-051aabbc38a0

Yadi Zhang made initial appearance at Westminster Magistrates Court on Wednesday

https://www.ft.com/content/67824c3f-8031-4f04-bfd4-92282f9e99e2

The RBI is stepping up efforts to crack down on the consumer-finance sector

https://www.ft.com/content/4d1d94dc-0c0c-4789-9d94-93d30fb3d716

Video app vows legal battle to prevent effort to separate it from Chinese parent

https://www.ft.com/content/6857cfc9-077d-493f-945d-eafd1ba5bb20

The American’s hit show, which follows Iranians learning the language, was informed by her experiences as the child of immigrants

https://www.ft.com/content/2e3f9899-ede5-40fc-b269-27231e3949d9

Move could lead to obsolescence of video app used by 170mn Americans

https://www.ft.com/content/d84df824-19c0-4105-ae95-816dd0618efb

Separate Brussels probe targets Chinese medical market amid growing trade tensions with Beijing

https://www.ft.com/content/4aa9b10f-93bf-4af3-b5e0-e2865ad78af7

At depressed valuations, SenseTime offers a low-risk bet on a potential winner

https://www.ft.com/content/16bf83d1-0c51-456f-b283-8c7fe085ec68

Currency has lost nearly 5% of its value against dollar this year amid expected delays to US rate cuts

https://www.ft.com/content/e3f75d49-c3bf-408c-b8a4-e8c599dba384