Revealed: Chinese bank's £9bn raid on British shares

By Mark Kleinman and Damian Reece INVESTIGATION China's central bank has built stakes worth an estimated £9bn in Britain's index of leading blue-chip companies, including HSBC, Tesco and Unilever, an investigation by The Sunday Telegraph reveals today. The scale of the investments by Beijing's State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE), an arm of the People's Bank of China, goes far beyond previous... [read full story]