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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, 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

    • Thursday, 29 December, 2022
      Hong Kong economy
      Hong Kong’s dollar peg is on increasingly thin ice

      Economically, it is close to impregnable. Politically, it is at the whim of the China-US relationship

      Three Hong Kong 100-dollar bills are clipped by clothes pegs that are decorated with the American stars and stripes
    • Thursday, 13 October, 2022
      Chinese economy
      Slowing Chinese growth is a recipe for global instability

      Beijing contemplates a future in which its economy remains well below the income levels of the US

      A man rides a bicycle through a wet market in China, while a woman in the foreground wears a mask and looks at her phone
    • Saturday, 9 July, 2022
      Japan
      Japan mourns Shinzo Abe as police investigate fatal shooting

      Crowds gather to pay respects to former prime minister at a memorial site close to where he was attacked

      People line up on Saturday to place flowers at a makeshift memorial outside Yamato-Saidaiji Station in Nara where former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe was shot on Friday
    • Monday, 4 July, 2022
      The Big Read
      Global inflation: Japan faces a moment of truth

      The collapse of the yen piles pressure on the central bank to change course after decades of loose monetary policy

      Montage of images of a yen note and a dollar bill and Haruhiko Kuroda with a red graph line showing the decline in the yen
    • Monday, 27 June, 2022
      Special ReportThe Future of Cities
      Radical neighbourhood redevelopment model splits opinion in Tokyo

      Mori Building pioneered developing large areas of the city, attracting interest across Asia

      Mori Tower, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo
    • Wednesday, 1 June, 2022
      Chinese trade
      Electric vehicles accelerate China’s looming dominance as a car exporter

      For Japanese and European carmakers, the challenge is that while EVs may be high-tech, they are not complex

      Rows of electric vehicles to be shipped abroad at Nangang port in Shanghai
    • Friday, 20 May, 2022
      Japanese economy
      ‘Different from the US’: why Japan does not worry about inflation

      After decades of stagnation, workers no longer demand higher wages and companies do not pass on price rises

      The Shibuya shopping district of Tokyo
    • Thursday, 28 April, 2022
      Yen
      Yen slides to 20-year low as BoJ defies global shift to higher rates

      Currency’s fall through ¥130 against the dollar follows central bank vow to keep bond yields at zero

      A Japanese flag over the Bank of Japan
    • Tuesday, 12 April, 2022
      Coronavirus
      The rest of the world should watch what is happening in Shanghai

      Covid lockdown in China’s biggest city will have global economic reverberations

      A James Ferguson illustration featuring the Chinese flag, with outlines of people in protective garb replacing the five stars
    • Tuesday, 29 March, 2022
      InterviewJapanese economy
      Japan must hit inflation target via domestic demand, Kishida aide insists

      Powerful adviser Seiji Kihara rules out Japan quitting joint energy projects with Russia

      Shoppers in protective face masks at a supermarket in Tokyo
    • Thursday, 10 March, 2022
      US Dollar
      Toppling the dollar as reserve currency risks harmful fragmentation

      Sanctions against Russia have spurred calls for an alternative holding, but this would only destabilise the financial system

      The 1881 painting by Robert Gibb showing the 93rd (Sutherland Highlanders) Regiment of Foot standing against Russian cavalry at the Battle of Balaclava on 25 October 1854 during the Crimean War
    • Thursday, 17 February, 2022
      News in-depthFutures contracts
      Hong Kong breaks Singapore’s grip on China stock futures

      Battle between rival exchanges for control comes as demand booms for Chinese equities

      People wearing protective masks walk past screens outside the Hong Kong Exchanges
    • Sunday, 23 January, 2022
      Hong Kong
      Don’t write off Hong Kong as a financial centre just yet

      Despite a political crackdown, people who want to move capital into China will continue to use the territory to do so

      An aerial view of Hong Kong
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