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Robin Harding

Asia Editor

Robin Harding is the FT's Asia editor, responsible for our journalism from Australia to Afghanistan, following a stint as Tokyo bureau chief from 2015-2021.

Harding also writes on the global economy for the opinion page, having previously worked as US economics editor in Washington DC from 2010-2014, where he covered the US Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the IMF.

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  • Tuesday, 7 January, 2025
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    The People’s Bank of China plans to make a historic shift to a more orthodox monetary policy

  • Friday, 3 January, 2025
    People's Bank of China
    China’s central bank plans policy overhaul as pressure mounts on economy

    People’s Bank of China will start to behave more like US Fed in using one main interest rate to steer demand for credit

    Exterior of the People’s Bank of China headquarters in Beijing
  • Monday, 30 December, 2024
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    AI does not mean the robots are coming

    The technology will transform existing machines, such as cars, long before it allows the creation of androids

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  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
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    Company already has joint venture with China’s SAIC in world’s third-largest car market

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  • Thursday, 28 November, 2024
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    The path to ‘Made in India’

    Industrialisation is within the country’s reach, but government has got to get out of the way first

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of Narenda Modi standing in front of the Indian flag, holding in his right hand the sign of the Indian currency rupee.
  • Wednesday, 27 November, 2024
    InterviewInfosys Ltd
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    Nandan Nilekani says small language models trained on specific data are ‘quite effective’

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  • Monday, 25 November, 2024
    InterviewReserve Bank of India
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    RBI chief Shaktikanta Das believes economic fragmentation, protectionism and tariffs are among the biggest threats

    Reserve Bank of India governor Shaktikanta Das
  • Thursday, 31 October, 2024
    Electric vehicles
    Has China already won the EV race?

    If carmakers believe the auto transition must happen at some point, delaying simply puts them further behind

    Ellie Foreman-Peck illustration of a Chinese electric car with a Volkswagen factory in its headlights
  • Tuesday, 27 August, 2024
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s debt divide is hurting its economy

    Beijing’s refusal to surrender control to local government or take on more responsibility is key to the country’s challenges

    James Ferguson illustration of a giant panda sitting in deep water surrounded by smaller red pandas up to their necks in water.
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    Chinese economy
    China’s bond market is sending a signal policymakers can’t ignore

    The country’s central bank is concerned about anaemic domestic demand

    James Ferguson illustration of a red dragon as a downward graph.
  • Friday, 28 June, 2024
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    Keep faith in China, Li Qiang tells business at ‘Summer Davos’

    Premier seeks to win over sceptical foreign investors despite tension over trade

    China’s Premier Li Qiang addresses the World Economic Forum in Dalian on Tuesday
  • Thursday, 23 May, 2024
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    Activist investor calls for Rio Tinto to abandon primary London listing

    Palliser Capital says miner should unify corporate structure in Australia to boost share price

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  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
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    What Japan’s most profitable policy experiment can teach us

    Shinzo Abe’s reform to the Government Pension Investment Fund holds lessons for ageing societies everywhere

    James Ferguson illustration of roulette wheel as Japan’s# flag.
  • Wednesday, 17 April, 2024
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    China reforms its unloved state-owned enterprises to win back investors

    Stocks are faring well compared with wider market as authorities judge management on share price performance

    Technicians at a Sinopec refinery in Tianjin
  • Wednesday, 27 March, 2024
    InterviewCATL
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    CATL chief Robin Zeng says much-vaunted tech for electric vehicles is impractical and unsafe

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  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
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    Bank of Japan ditches negative rates

    Central bank raises borrowing costs for the first time since 2007 in a historic shift

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  • Monday, 11 March, 2024
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    Japan’s central bankers grapple with normalising monetary policy and unwinding the balance sheet

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  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
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    Society has given up on policy and gone back to politics

    James Ferguson illustration of a campaign van in support of wonks over politicians
  • Tuesday, 6 February, 2024
    Equities
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    When an asset is declared ‘uninvestable’ it is often time to buy

    Illustration of a panda casting a shadow over lots of numbers
  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
    Technology sector
    Victim? Villain? Huawei finds itself trapped in US-China dispute

    Judging which incompatible version of the truth is correct is impossible

    A man is pulled in four directions as four large hands grasp his hands and feet in front of the Huawei corporate logo
  • Tuesday, 5 September, 2023
    Chinese economy
    China’s demand dilemma could spell trouble for the world

    The other G20 countries should signal consensus against Beijing running a big surplus

    James Ferguson illustration of a panda bear with a huge cargo box on its back, holding onto a red graph line that has snapped and is falling.
  • Tuesday, 1 August, 2023
    China economic slowdown
    Beijing must start spending to secure China’s economic future

    To stop a problem becoming a crisis, the government needs to intervene

    Ann Kiernan illustration of a red cap crane bird  running down the line of a graph with its head turned back, holding a red ribbon in its beak that waves back at the vertical line of a graph
  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    ReviewNon-Fiction
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  • Wednesday, 19 July, 2023
    Thailand
    Thai election winner blocked from premiership

    Senators reject Pita Limjaroenrat’s candidacy as court suspends him from parliament

    Pita Limjaroenrat sits inside the Thai parliament
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