https://www.scmp.com/rss/267571/feed Peter McGill is a contributing editor of The Banker. He began his career in the Hong Kong government, and then spent two decades as a journalist in Japan, including as Tokyo-based correspondent of The Observer. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Hardly a day goes by without the United States warning of some threat posed by China that justifies economic sanctions. Amid all the smoke from this “new cold war”, scant attention has been paid to what is actually happening on the ground in finance. Here, American banks, insurance companies and asset managers have lost none of their appetite for making money in China and have met with remarkably little deterrence from US President Donald Trump’s administration. Far from decoupling from China,... https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3105348/us-china-decoupling-wall-street-missed-memo?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/opinion/article/3105348/us-china-decoupling-wall-street-missed-memo?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 14 Oct 2020 14:00:07 +0000 To viewers around the world, John Cantlie has become the unwilling voice of Islamic State, voicing the militant group's propaganda in a series of video released to the media. The kidnapped British journalist was most recently seen in a video, purportedly filmed in the embattled Syrian town of Kobani, asserting that Islamic State fighters were defying US-led air strikes to close in on the town. But what most television viewers - and probably the Islamist kidnappers - won't realise is that... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1630229/kidnapped-british-journalists-link-chinas-founding-father?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1630229/kidnapped-british-journalists-link-chinas-founding-father?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 01 Nov 2014 22:15:45 +0000