Bloomberg China appointed a new top liaison official for Hong Kong, replacing the former director amid months of protests in the financial hub. Luo Huining will take over from Wang Zhimin as the Hong Kong liaison office director, the government said in a two-sentence statement that didn’t elaborate on the changes. Wang was former director of China’s liaison office in ...

For decades, Indian foreign policy has been moving slowly but methodically in a single direction: towards a greater embrace of the West. The days of non-alignment, when India believed it led the developing world in standing apart from either Cold War bloc, are over. Although successive governments in New Delhi have worked hard to avoid antagonising Beijing, it has been ...

Robert Stheeman has been at the helm of the UK Treasury’s Debt Management Office since 2003, overseeing sales of more than $2.6 trillion of Gilts, as Britain’s sovereign bonds are known. He’s the government’s agent in the debt marketplace, the link that smooths communication between the finance ministry and its 15 primary “market-makers”. His job is to keep the UK’s ...