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Patrick McGee

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Author of Apple in China — named a top book of 2025 by The New York Times, Foreign Affairs & the New Yorker. Contributor at @TheFP & @FT 🇨🇦
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VW emails reveal panic among engineers

VW emails reveal panic among engineers

Financial Times — Volkswagen employees attempted to cover up cheating as investigators closed in
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Running in the clouds: a new ultra-marathon in the Alps

Running in the clouds: a new ultra-marathon in the Alps

Financial Times — The 'beautiful and brutal' 116km race is the latest addition to the growing roster of ultra-marathons
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Linde chairman Reitzle's skills put to the test after deal collapse

Linde chairman Reitzle's skills put to the test after deal collapse

Financial Times — Corporate person in the news: Wolfgang Reitzle
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VW sets fresh record with historic car buy back - FT.com

VW sets fresh record with historic car buy back - FT.com

Financial Times — Volkswagen ran an ad for the Beetle in the 1960s that said "it runs and runs and runs". Seven months into the diesel emissions scandal, the motto looks apt again.
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Macau morphs from gambling haven to family-friendly zone

Macau morphs from gambling haven to family-friendly zone

Financial Times — It is a Saturday night in peak season August at Apex, an elite club in China's only legal gambling region. The entertainment is baccarat, a luck-driven card game that takes five minutes to learn and fewer than 30 seconds to play, with a HK$10,000 ($1,300) per hand minimum.
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Hong Kong's Hedge Fund Fight Nite

Hong Kong's Hedge Fund Fight Nite

FT Wealth — I am standing in shorts and an oversized tank top beneath a marquee wedged between the harbour front and Hong Kong's great skyscrapers while on the other side of the curtain sit 700 guests eager to watch me get punched in the face.
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Danger Lurks Inside the Bond Boom

Danger Lurks Inside the Bond Boom

The Wall Street Journal — Investors have been flocking to buy bonds issued by top-rated companies, putting them on pace for a record year of debt raising in the U.S. But some of the biggest fund managers warn that dangers are lurking in what were once seen as the safest investments.
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The New Haven for Investors

The New Haven for Investors

The Wall Street Journal — Bonds of Exxon and Johnson & Johnson are trading with yields below those of comparable Treasurys, a sign that investors perceive them as a safer bet. It could ultimately mean some companies will borrow at lower rates than the U.S. government.
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BMW marks journey from WW1 aero engines to luxury-car leader - FT.com

BMW marks journey from WW1 aero engines to luxury-car leader - FT.com

Financial Times — The car James Bond drives in GoldenEye accelerates down the open road. "Happiness isn't around the corner" - the words flash on the screen while the driver shifts gears, then owns a bend on the autobahn - "Happiness is the corner". The 1997 black &
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Chihuahua Airlift to East Coast

Chihuahua Airlift to East Coast

The Wall Street Journal — For a group of previously unloved dogs, Christmas came early this year. On Wednesday, 15 Chihuahuas that had been languishing in Los Angeles animal shelters landed in Washington, D.C., en route to Virginia, where they were expected to be snapped up by pet lovers.
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What went so right with Volkswagen’s restructuring?

What went so right with Volkswagen’s restructuring?

Financial Times — Two years after the emissions scandal threatened to destroy it, VW is more profitable than before and has €20bn plans for electric cars
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Carmakers face threat from new drivers of profit

Carmakers face threat from new drivers of profit

Financial Times — As vehicle ownership declines, industry leaders risk becoming low-margin businesses but their suppliers are in ever greater demand
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GE and Siemens: power pioneers flying too far from the sun

GE and Siemens: power pioneers flying too far from the sun

Financial Times — The two industrial titans are struggling to cope with the disruption to their business models from wind and solar
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Siemens’ chief delivers Alstom rail deal with a political punch

Siemens’ chief delivers Alstom rail deal with a political punch

Financial Times — Tie-up with rival sends a message, says Kaeser, who wants to bring world together
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Electric cars’ green image blackens beneath the bonnet

Electric cars’ green image blackens beneath the bonnet

Financial Times — Research into the lifecycle of electric vehicles is a wake-up call for an industry geared up to promote ‘zero emission cars’
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Big Read: Car emissions scandal: loopholes in the lab tests

Big Read: Car emissions scandal: loopholes in the lab tests

Financial Times — Three years after Dieselgate, automakers are still exploiting ‘the lawful but awful ways’ to achieve the best possible scores for CO2 testing in the EU
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Carmakers take electric fight to the factory floor

Carmakers take electric fight to the factory floor

Financial Times — With VW and GM pouring billions into production facilities for electric cars, Tesla’s supremacy is far from assured
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Can Germany survive the 'iPhone moment' for cars?

Can Germany survive the 'iPhone moment' for cars?

Financial Times — The significance of the iPhone when it was launched in 2007 was not that it was a better phone, a superior camera or an improved MP3 player. Nor was it the touch screen, wide display or range of apps. It was all of these things in one device - "a converged technology," as author Mario Herger puts it.
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