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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, 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
    News in-depthChinese business & finance
    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
    Rio Tinto PLC
    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

    A Komatsu dump truck at the open pit mine at the Oyu Tolgoi copper-gold mine
  • Wednesday, 15 May, 2024
    Japan
    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
    News in-depthChinese equities
    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
    China’s ‘battery king’ dismisses solid-state EV commercialisation as years away

    CATL chief Robin Zeng says much-vaunted tech for electric vehicles is impractical and unsafe

    Robin Zeng
  • Wednesday, 20 March, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Bank of Japan ditches negative rates

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

  • Tuesday, 19 March, 2024
    Instant InsightBank of Japan
    The big test is yet to come for the BoJ

    Milestone return to positive interest rates is only the beginning

    Kazuo Ueda bowing at a press conference
  • Monday, 11 March, 2024
    News in-depthBank of Japan
    How high will the BoJ go after ditching negative interest rates?

    Japan’s central bankers grapple with normalising monetary policy and unwinding the balance sheet

    Governor Kazuo Ueda
  • Wednesday, 28 February, 2024
    Politics
    Welcome to the winter of the wonk

    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
    Are Chinese stocks a value trade or a value trap?

    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
    The Millionaires’ Factory — the rise and rise of Macquarie

    Joyce Moullakis and Chris Wright trace how a small Australian merchant bank became a global behemoth

  • 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
  • Monday, 17 July, 2023
    News in-depthThailand
    Role of monarchy at heart of battle for Thailand’s future

    Senators appointed by former military junta have kept Pita Limjaroenrat out of government

    Supporters hold a picture of prime ministerial candidate Pita Limjaroenrat after he was blocked from power by Thailand’s national assembly
  • Thursday, 13 July, 2023
    Thailand
    Thailand faces political deadlock after election winner blocked from power

    Senators appointed by former military junta reject Pita Limjaroenrat’s bid to become prime minister

    Election winner Pita Limjaroenrat
  • Thursday, 15 June, 2023
    Chinese business & finance
    China to deploy deposit insurance to repay victims of rural banking fraud

    Central bank agrees to share cost with local government in precedent for resolving future financial crises

    Security guards scuffle with demonstrators during a protest outside a People’s Bank of China branch in Henan, China, in July 2022
  • Tuesday, 13 June, 2023
    InterviewCitadel LLC
    Citadel’s Griffin optimistic on growth in China

    Billionaire investor warns it will be ‘ugly’ for the US if the Chinese economy falters

    A picture of Ken Griffin speaking
  • Tuesday, 30 May, 2023
    Banks
    SVB’s collapse was one thing, Credit Suisse’s quite another

    If a run on a liquid, well-capitalised bank is possible, it could happen to anyone

    James Ferguson illustration of a Credit Suisse   building with the face of the killer from the movie ‘Scream’ projected on to its facade
  • Wednesday, 5 April, 2023
    Bank of Japan
    The dovish case for the BoJ to abolish yield curve control

    New governor Kazuo Ueda has the toughest job in central banking

    Kazuo Ueda
  • Wednesday, 22 February, 2023
    InterviewAustralian politics
    Australia’s treasurer says $2.3tn pensions pool should fund ‘nation-building’

    Jim Chalmers argues energy and social care investments would not compromise retirement savings

    Australia’s treasurer Jim Chalmers
  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    Electric vehicles
    Beware the great battery industry fallacy

    Despite the rush for dominance, the economics are not promising

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