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James Kynge

Global China editor

James Kynge is global China editor, based in Hong Kong. He writes about emerging markets and, in particular, China’s growing global footprint in business, finance and politics.

He won the 2016 Wincott Foundation award for Financial Journalist of the Year. His prize-winning 2006 book, “China Shakes the World”, was a bestseller translated into 19 languages.

He spent 25 years reporting from Asia with postings in China, Japan, former Soviet Central Asia and Southeast Asia. He is chairman of FT Confidential Research, having founded “China Confidential”, a research company, in 2009.

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