China musters ‘national team’ to fight on front line in trade war

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. As the Chinese stock market reeled this week from Donald Trump’s “liberation day” tariffs, Beijing launched a co-ordinated government effort to support share prices. Central Huijin, a sovereign wealth fund, issued a rare statement declaring…

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Ex-Russian politician found guilty in UK sanctions and money-laundering trial

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. A former Russian politician appointed by Vladimir Putin has been found guilty of sanctions breaches and money laundering by a London jury, in the first recent UK criminal prosecution for sanctions violations. Dmitrii Ovsiannikov, former…

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