Financial Times – EU launches subsidy probe into Chinese electric cars 

The Financial Times leads with the EU investigating China’s electric cars amid claims the “cheaper” vehicles are “flooding” global markets  – it says the probe “could become one of the world’s biggest trade cases”.

The paper also features more women going back to full-time employment given the rise in hybrid working.

After a memorable meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, the FT reports that Kim has given his “full backing to Russia’s ‘sacred fight against imperialism’ in Ukraine”. 

The front page pictures the two world leaders shaking hands in what was Kim’s first overseas trip since the Covid-19 outbreak.