Good morning, and welcome to Wednesday’s Asia Links
China vice-premier pledges to support tech companies after rout (FT, Bloomberg, Caixin)
Supports overseas listings (Reuters)
PBoC isn’t done with fintech as ethics governance regulations loom (Caixin)
US tech shares rebound, leading stock rally (WSJ)
Shanghai reaches milestone, keeping community infections at zero (SCMP)
Is China’s zero-covid policy laying the foundations for a ‘growth recession’? (SCMP)
Hong Kong to ease covid curbs despite persistent new infection numbers (Caixin)
Reuters says Yellen and Tai disagree on lifting China tariffs
HSBC’s legion of Hong Kong retail investors warm up to breakup call (Bloomberg)
JPMorgan shareholders vote against Jamie Dimon’s $50m bonus (FT, WSJ)
Indian insurer LIC falls on stock market debut (FT)
India’s central bank spent $20 billion defending the value of the rupee in March (Reuters)
New Zealand banks predict house prices may drop by 20% over the next year (Guardian)
China Eastern air crash may have been deliberate, US says (WSJ, Guardian, SCMP)
India’s top court revokes ban on large prayer meetings at mosque (Reuters)
Qantas says synthetic fuel could power long flights by mid-2030s (FT)
Militant suspects held in Indonesia over the weekend had pledged allegiance to ISIS, authorities say (Reuters)
Opinion: Ed Luce -- Biden’s China strategy cannot work with weapons alone (FT)
Asia’s food crisis: Ukraine War triggers chain reaction of shortages (Nikkei Asia)
China’s whole-process people’s democracy revolutionizes understandings on democracy (People’s Daily)
And the full text of Xi Jinping’s speech (Qiushi – the CPC Central Committee Bimonthly)
Wonkery: the net effect of the China shock on US unemployment and welfare was positive overall (VoxEU)
Economic security in emerging markets: a look at India, Vietnam and Indonesia (CSIS)
Ten years from boom to bust: Chinese football in a tailspin (Reuters)
Forrest Li of Singapore’s Sea Ltd net value drops $18 billion in tech rout (SCMP)
And finally: Chinese university mocked for telling students to do a swimming test online (SCMP)