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Edward White

China Correspondent

Edward White joined the Financial Times in 2017. He was previously the FT’s Seoul bureau chief, covering North Korea and South Korea, a correspondent in Taiwan and breaking news reporter. He has won awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia for coverage of North Korean human rights abuses and the dark side of South Korea's entertainment industry. He has also received a Citation for Excellence from the Overseas Press Club of America for magazine feature writing. Based in Shanghai since 2023, his coverage includes China’s clean technology sector, elite politics in the Chinese Communist party and corruption, as well as foreign policy, the environment and human rights.

Email Edward White @edwardwhitenz  on Twitter (link opens in a new browser window)
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    ExplainerChinese economy
    As Chinese stocks slide, should investors bet on a Beijing bazooka?

    Expectations of fiscal stimulus stoked a market rally that fizzled out this week

    The financial district of Pudong in Shanghai, China, is visible through a circular hole on a bridge. The scene includes the Oriental Pearl Tower and other skyscrapers
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Chinese equities
    Chinese stock rally cools after Beijing holds off on fiscal stimulus

    Investor disappointment with lack of detailed plans limits gains in CSI 300 and triggers sharp sell-off in Hong Kong

    A security guard stands guard on the Bund with the backdrop of the financial district of Pudong in Shanghai
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    EU-China relations
    China targets EU brandy imports with anti-dumping penalties

    Trade retaliation comes after bloc voted to approve steep tariff increases on Chinese electric cars

    Frederic Barbot, a producer of Cognac, smells a barrel of ageing cognac at Domaine Marcadier-Barbot in Segonzac, south-western France
  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU member states agree to impose tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles

    China’s carmakers have been increasing market share in Europe

    New vehicles are being loaded on to special frame transports at the International Container Terminal in Taicang Port, Suzhou, China.
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast12 min listen
    Displacement pushes Lebanon to the brink

    Over 1mn people have fled their homes, adding to the economic crisis battering the country

  • Wednesday, 2 October, 2024
    Asia maritime tensions
    Vietnamese fishermen injured in clash with Chinese vessels

    Confrontation near Paracel Islands highlights rising hostilities in disputed waters of South China Sea

    A Chinese coastguard vessel passes near a Chinese oil rig in the South China Sea
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    Chinese outbound investment surges to record on clean energy ‘tsunami’

    Beijing’s booming green tech sector is increasingly driving FDI flows into global markets

    Wind turbines across a snow-covered mountain landscape in Yichang, China
  • Thursday, 26 September, 2024
    The Big Read
    China’s accelerating green transition

    Two-thirds of all new solar and wind power projects are based in the country. But to wean industry off coal, Beijing needs to set up a real energy market

    Montage of images of Xi Jinping against a backdrop of solar panels, wind turbines and power pylons
  • Monday, 23 September, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    US proposes banning Chinese software and components in vehicles

    Move prompted by fears Beijing could collect data on American drivers and hack internet-connected cars

    Connected vehicles include EVs like this Seagull car from Chinese automaker BYD on display in a showroom in Beijing
  • Sunday, 22 September, 2024
    BYD Co Ltd
    China’s BYD raises car export hopes in Pakistan after being spurned by India

    Planned assembly plant in the country would mark carmaker’s first venture into south Asia as it expands globally

    Several grey BYD electric vehicles are lined up inside an illuminated, tunnel-like structure within BYD's factory in Rayong, Thailand.
  • Thursday, 19 September, 2024
    Volkswagen AG
    VW audit of Xinjiang plant failed to meet international standards

    Leaked report, which the carmaker claimed cleared it from forced labour allegations, shows audit fell short, according to experts

  • Thursday, 12 September, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU rejects Chinese EV makers’ bid to avert hefty tariffs

    Commission dismisses offers to adjust pricing of allegedly subsidised vehicles

    BYD electric cars for export are parked in rows, waiting to be loaded on to a ship at a port in Shandong province, China
  • Tuesday, 10 September, 2024
    Inside BusinessAutomobiles
    Foreign carmakers also have a China overcapacity problem

    None predicted just how fast China’s own industry would develop in the age of EVs

    EV cars are pictured inside BYD’s first electric vehicle factory in Southeast Asia
  • Monday, 9 September, 2024
    FT News Briefing podcast10 min listen
    Tesla’s EVs stall in China

    Chinese car buyers avoid Tesla as more advanced electric vehicles flood the market

  • Sunday, 8 September, 2024
    InterviewEnergy sector
    Chinese start-up aims for nuclear fusion at half the cost of US rivals

    Shanghai’s Energy Singularity looks to raise $500mn to develop clean energy breakthrough using locally sourced materials

  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    News in-depthTesla Inc
    Elon Musk’s China dream stalls as hybrids rush past Tesla

    Consumers shift to plug-in models from local rivals such as BYD

    A BYD electric vehicle
  • Monday, 2 September, 2024
    Russian politics
    Putin visits Mongolia despite international arrest warrant

    Russia confident Ulan Bator will not act despite being an International Criminal Court member

    Vladimir Putin walks with Mongolia’s foreign minister along a red carpet lined by brightly uniformed Mongolian soldiers
  • Thursday, 29 August, 2024
    EU-China relations
    China says EU companies dumped brandy but holds off on tariffs

    Shares in Pernod Ricard and Rémy Cointreau jump after preliminary ruling but industry ‘disappointed’

    A hand pours cognac spirit from a bottle into a tulip-shaped glass in a distillery house cellar. The liquid is amber-colored, reflecting the light as it fills the glass.
  • Monday, 26 August, 2024
    Semiconductors
    China’s export curbs on semiconductor materials stoke chip output fears

    Western customers say restrictions on supply could hit production of advanced microprocessors and optical products

    A worker places lighting components on crystal displays and modules on a production line at a semiconductor production workshop in China
  • Wednesday, 21 August, 2024
    EU-China relations
    China hits back at EV tariffs with European dairy probe

    Beijing escalates trade dispute after Brussels unveils additional levies on vehicles

    Dairy products in a supermarket in Beijing
  • Tuesday, 13 August, 2024
    US-China relations
    China’s Hesai to be removed from US defence department blacklist

    U-turn on world’s biggest laser sensor maker is embarrassing reversal for the Pentagon

    A close-up of the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, the headquarters of the US defence department
  • Sunday, 11 August, 2024
    Chinese business & finance
    Multinationals sound alarm over weak demand in China

    World’s second-biggest economy is slowing, appetite for foreign brands has weakened and local competition is intense

    A large ad for Stella Artois in Shanghai
  • Friday, 9 August, 2024
    EU trade
    China challenges Brussels’ electric car tariffs with WTO complaint

    Beijing says EU trade measures undermine global co-operation on climate

    A large number of new energy vehicles are ready to be shipped for export in China
  • Sunday, 14 July, 2024
    News in-depthUS-China relations
    Chinese EV laser maker fights back against Pentagon blacklisting

    Hesai says it has been forced to sue US government after allegations of military links

  • Tuesday, 9 July, 2024
    News in-depthRenewable energy
    Gridlock in China: huge spending on network in shift to green energy

    Beijing rolls out $800bn investment over six years to upgrade system as shift from coal piles pressure on creaking grid

    A solar farm next to Donggou village in northern China’s Hebei province
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