Pakistan’s Imran Khan fights an election from jail
FT News Briefing
Forhecz Topher
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🗓️ 6 February 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
China’s national chip champions expect to make next-generation smartphone processors as early as this year, and Northern Ireland is trying to chart a path forward under a new, historic power-sharing agreement. Plus, a former Pakistan prime minister is barred from this week’s election but is using chatbots and social media to energise his party’s supporters.
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China on cusp of next-generation chip production despite US curbs
Imran Khan taps AI and TikTok to fight Pakistan election from jail
Cash crisis waits for Northern Ireland’s restored executive
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:08.0 | Equinore. |
| 0:10.0 | Good morning for the Financial Times. Today is Tuesday, February 6th, and this is your |
| 0:16.4 | F.T. News briefing. China is getting closer to making competitive semiconductors, and an ex-prime minister in Pakistan |
| 0:25.9 | is trying to sway this week's election. Plus, could a new power sharing agreement in Northern Ireland |
| 0:32.1 | pave the way for reunification? |
| 0:34.0 | I'm Mark Filipino and here's the news you need to start your day. |
| 0:38.0 | It looks like China's biggest chipmaker SMIC will start producing advanced |
| 0:47.2 | smartphone processors for Huawei later this year. That's a pretty big |
| 0:51.9 | surprise because this is exactly what Washington did not want. |
| 0:56.0 | The US has been trying hard to restrict China's ability to make these chips. |
| 1:00.6 | Huawei has shocked the industry lately with advances to its latest smartphone design. |
| 1:05.0 | If SMIC does end up successfully producing these new chips, |
| 1:09.0 | it would narrow the gap between China's alternatives |
| 1:12.0 | and the ones Invidia is producing. |
| 1:14.4 | It has been two years since Northern Ireland had a functioning government, but on Saturday Stormont was back in business. |
| 1:29.0 | Northern Ireland's two main parties have finally agreed on how to share power and form a government. |
| 1:35.0 | On the one hand, you have the Unionists who support close ties to the UK, and on the other, |
| 1:40.1 | the nationalists who want to reunite Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland. |
| 1:45.2 | Here to talk to us about how the two parties came together as the F.T's Ireland correspondent, Jude Weber. |
| 1:50.3 | Hi Jude. |
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