David Pilling - Financial Times

David Pilling is the Asia editor of the Financial Times. He was previously Tokyo Bureau Chief for the FT from January 2002 to August 2008. His column ranges over business, investment, politics and economics.

He joined the FT in 1990. He has worked in London as an editor, in Chile and Argentina as a correspondent and covered the global pharmeutical and biotechnology industry.

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China still has the firepower to engineer growth, something it badly needs in a year of fraught political transition

A proliferation of agencies may be pushing the boundaries of Chinese policy

The Chen Guangcheng case exposes China’s moral vacuum

The Philippines may be getting its act together

Japan is divided over politics and economics, energy and tax policy

The arbitrariness of China’s system harms its image, writes David Pilling

Leung Chun-ying is likely to be a different sort of leader of the world’s third-largest business centre

Bullet trains have made the ancient Chinese city of Hangzhou, capital of the 12th-century Southern Song dynasty, more accessible to tourists

China’s technocratic, consensus-driven system is under strain

The region’s tailwind will soon blow the other way

Akash Kapur skillfully gets people talking

People are voting for governance, they are voting against corruption and for development

If a desperately poor state of some 100m people can haul itself from the mire, nothing is hopeless

The territory’s citizens have rebelled before

Henry Tang alleged to have built an illegal cellar

Although political weakness seems to have sapped economic strength, the country’s growth story remains pretty robust

Village protesters will not unnerve the state

As commercial needs suck it into a troubled world, China’s desire for a low international profile is at odds with reality

Poor infrastructure is deterring foreign investors

Even if the door leading to reform is open only a crack, it is better to stick one’s foot in than to see it slam shut

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