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    Gideon Rachman

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    Gideon Rachman became chief foreign affairs columnist for the Financial Times in July 2006. He joined the FT after a 15-year career at The Economist, which included spells as a foreign correspondent in Brussels, Washington and Bangkok.

    He also edited The Economist’s business and Asia sections. His particular interests include American foreign policy, the European Union and globalisation.

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    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Geopolitics
      China, Japan and the Ukraine war

      The merging of geopolitical rivalries in Asia and Europe has disturbing echoes of the 1930s

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Geopolitics
      The real meaning of Xi’s visit to Putin

      Talk of a peace plan for Ukraine will obscure the tightening of ties between China and Russia

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Asia maritime tensions
      Aukus, the Anglosphere and the return of great power rivalry

      The US, the UK and Australia believe that preparing for a war with China may be the best way of preventing one

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      China has a fateful choice to make on Ukraine

      A decision to supply Russia with weapons would bring Beijing’s rivalry with Washington to boiling point

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
      Bill Gates on Ukraine’s ‘shock to the system’

      US philanthropist on shrinking aid budgets, climate, technology and China-US tensions

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Mexico
      Amlo’s strongman act is weakening Mexico

      The president’s attacks on national institutions threaten democracy and stability

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Ukraine: a year at war

      Listen to a special podcast series hosted by Gideon Rachman

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
      Life in a war zone

      Ukraine MP Lesia Vasylenko describes what it was like to wake up in a war zone

    • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast21 min listen
      Ukraine series: the battle for Bakhmut

      How the eastern city came to play a central role in the war

    • Monday, 20 February, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      There is no quick path to peace in Ukraine

      The western alliance’s public confidence over the war masks private anxiety 

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Ukraine
      It makes no sense to blame the west for the Ukraine war

      The controversial arguments of John Mearsheimer have gained a worldwide audience. But they fail to convince

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      ReviewPolitical books
      Politics round-up — inside stories on turbulent times

      Observant accounts tackle Trump’s footsoldiers, Biden’s White House, Johnson’s downfall and Brussels diplomacy

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
      Ukraine series: life in a war zone

      MP Lesia Vasylenko on Ukraine’s resilience and why Russia must be held to account

    • Monday, 6 February, 2023
      Brexit
      Brexit could be reversed — here’s how

      Opinion is shifting but the public are running ahead of the politicians

    • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
      Chinese politics & policy
      How the spy balloon popped a US-China rapprochement

      Relations between Washington and Beijing remain trapped in a downward spiral

    • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
      Aukus
      White House optimistic on tech sharing for Aukus security pact

      Top US official sees ‘pathway’ for allies to build nuclear-powered submarines for Australia

    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      How the war in Ukraine met the culture wars

      Vladimir Putin has found friends in the west by posing as a defender of traditional values

    • Friday, 27 January, 2023
      FT Swamp Notes
      Tanks and the middle class Premium content

      Does pouring military aid into Ukraine really qualify as a ‘foreign policy for the middle class’?

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Geopolitics
      The world’s democracies need to stick together

      Maintaining a united front on Ukraine and on China is getting harder

    • Friday, 20 January, 2023
      Global Economy
      Ghosts of former delegates haunt Davos cocktail parties

      Past attendees are dead, disappeared or in disgrace. What accounts for this run of ill-fortune?

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      Celebrity speed dating in Davos Premium content

      A flavour of my experience at the World Economic Forum

    • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
      InterviewFerdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr.
      Marcos Jr says Taiwan tensions ‘worrisome’ for Philippines

      President to tighten military ties with US but also hopes for better links with China

    • Monday, 16 January, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      There is no path to lasting Russian victory

      Putin’s war has left his country isolated in Europe, while permanent occupation of Ukraine is unfeasible

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      World Economic Forum
      Geopolitics threatens to destroy the world Davos made

      World Economic Forum delegates fear that a long period of peace and economic integration could be coming to a close

    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      Rachman Review podcast23 min listen
      America’s hard right

      Republican zealots make a lot of noise but what is their policy agenda?

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