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Peter Simpson
Peter Simpson is a China-UK based journalist and the SCMP’s former Beijing 2008 Olympics news editor. He has covered major international news and sporting events, most recently the London 2012 Olympics and Euro 2012 in Poland and Ukraine. Peter is a Premier League season ticket holder at newly promoted Southampton FC.
Beijing’s 2018 purchase of the Royal Mint Court was welcomed, but the intervening years have seen the British view of China sour and residents and councillors have vowed to make their disapproval known.
Chiang Yee, the Jiangxi-born writer of the Silent Traveller series of books, showed wartime Britons a unique view of China. He is honoured by a blue plaque on the facade of the Oxford house in which he lodged, lived and worked for 15 years.
China’s Gao Jisheng’s ownership in question with the club currently sitting 17th in the Premier League standings
Anna Lo, the Hong Kong-born former Alliance Party politician, talks backstop, borders and the Democratic Unionist Party.
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