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• FirstFT: Taiwan hit by unprecedented ‘autonomous’ AI hack linked to China

  12-08-2026 23:36 via ft.com
  Also in today’s newsletter: Tata chair to step down and former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji dies aged 97
  
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• Indonesia’s Prabowo retreats on commodities reform amid market pressure

  14-08-2026 10:05 via ft.com
  State-owned agency had threatened to shake up trade of nickel, thermal coal and palm oil
  
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• Karthik Sankaran on the case for yen intervention

  14-08-2026 07:30 via ft.com
  ‘I’ve been calling for an intervention at least since dollar-yen was at 150’
  
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• Shares of China’s JD.com slide after rare revenue plunge

  14-08-2026 07:04 via ft.com
  Ecommerce platform suffered first sales decline in more than a decade after end of government subsidy programme
  
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• Shares of China’s JD.com slide 10% after first revenue drop in more than a decade

  14-08-2026 07:04 via ft.com
  Ecommerce platform suffered sales decline after end of government subsidy programme
  
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• Chinese retailer JD.com’s shares slide 10% after first revenue drop in over a decade

  14-08-2026 07:04 via ft.com
  Ecommerce platform suffered sales decline after end of government subsidy programme
  
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• Chinese retailer JD.com’s shares slide 10% after first revenue decline since listing

  14-08-2026 07:04 via ft.com
  Ecommerce platforms suffered sales drop after end of government subsidy programme
  
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• Pakistan and the new great game of Risk

  14-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Islamabad has bold ambitions to play a more proactive role in the world
  
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• Why the ‘dirt cheap’ yen is proving hard to fix

  14-08-2026 04:46 via ft.com
  The Japanese currency is undervalued on many metrics
  
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• AI frenzy drives Chinese tech valuations to multiples of US peers

  14-08-2026 03:43 via ft.com
  Support from Beijing has helped power 29% gain for Star 50 index this year
  
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• Is AI coming for Indian jobs? It’s already here

  14-08-2026 03:30 via ft.com
  Also in this newsletter: equity investments skew towards risk
  
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• Trump launches tariffs targeting Chinese drone technology

  14-08-2026 02:40 via ft.com
  US to impose up to 100% levies on unmanned aircraft and their components
  
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• Seoul soars past Dubai as world’s busiest international airport

  13-08-2026 18:46 via ft.com
  South Korean hub receives boost as Iran war hits Middle East transfer passengers
  
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• US accuses more than 40 countries of helping China avoid Trump’s tariffs

  13-08-2026 17:55 via ft.com
  White House says Canada, Japan, EU and others enabling the evasion of levies for $60bn in trade via ‘transshipment scam’
  
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• Japan needs deterrence and renewal — not managed decline

  13-08-2026 14:42 via ft.com
  More than eight decades after the end of the second world war, the country must rethink its role in the world
  
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• Price of niche rare earth jumps on fears of renewed Chinese export controls

  13-08-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Erbium, used widely in infrastructure, is among the broad range of metals that China dominates production of
  
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• Takaichi slams Putin’s visit to disputed Pacific islands

  13-08-2026 12:47 via ft.com
  Japan’s prime minister rebukes Russian president’s first-ever trip to Kuril Islands
  
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• South Korea orders new investors to take classes after single-stock trading frenzy

  13-08-2026 09:44 via ft.com
  Regulators tighten curbs less than three months after controversial products were introduced
  
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• Back to school for South Korean ‘ant’ investors

  13-08-2026 09:44 via ft.com
  Regulators impose mandatory classes for new traders of single-stock leveraged funds
  
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• The battle for control of India’s $280bn Tata Group

  13-08-2026 06:50 via ft.com
  Turbulent transition awaits N Chandrasekaran’s successor at Tata Sons, which owns Air India and Jaguar Land Rover
  
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• La Tour d’Argent Tokyo: how a French legend took root in Japan

  13-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Haute cuisine meets local ingredients and old-world ceremony in the grand dining room of the historic Paris restaurant’s sole international outpost
  
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• China is winning the race for the Ice Silk Road

  12-08-2026 18:40 via ft.com
  Melting in the Arctic is unleashing a geopolitical tussle over new trade routes
  
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• The west has given China the keys to the medicine cabinet

  12-08-2026 15:00 via ft.com
  The US and Europe led the antibiotic era but then outsourced the means to sustain it
  
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• Zhu Rongji, reforming Chinese premier, 1928-2026

  12-08-2026 12:19 via ft.com
  Jiang Zemin’s right-hand man laid the foundation for the country’s leap to economic superpower
  
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• Tata chair to step down as succession row escalates

  12-08-2026 09:13 via ft.com
  N Chandrasekaran to depart India’s largest conglomerate amid dispute with Noel Tata
  
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• Tata chair resigns as succession row escalates

  12-08-2026 08:42 via ft.com
  N Chandrasekaran to depart India’s largest conglomerate amid dispute with Noel Tata
  
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• Taiwan hits out at China over naval drill with Indonesia

  12-08-2026 07:14 via ft.com
  Rare joint exercises raise concerns over Beijing’s more assertive conduct in disputed waters
  
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• Taiwan nuclear agency hit by ‘autonomous’ AI hack linked to China

  12-08-2026 06:11 via ft.com
  AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare
  
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• China-linked hackers hit Taiwan in unprecedented ‘autonomous’ AI cyber attack

  12-08-2026 06:11 via ft.com
  AI agents ran simultaneous reconnaissance and break-ins in display of new phase of cyberwarfare
  
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• Chinese students in the UK pressured by criminal gangs, expert says

  12-08-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  Senior Home Office leader surveyed 916 Chinese students in the UK for his doctoral research
  
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