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    • Monday, 17 April, 2023
      ReviewBooks
      The Dean of Shandong — a westerner’s defence of China’s political system

      Daniel Bell gives a perceptive insider account of Chinese university life but is less than convincing in his support for authoritarianism

    • Friday, 14 April, 2023
      US-China trade dispute
      The west is in the grip of a decoupling delusion

      Trying to move production from China is much harder than many companies and governments think

    • Wednesday, 24 August, 2022
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      What kind of great power will India become?

      Three books offer insights into New Delhi’s relationship with the US and China — and ask where the rising nation will go from here

    • Friday, 27 May, 2022
      The Weekend Essay
      Still Top Gun? What Tom Cruise’s new movie tells us about American power

      The film reflects anxiety over the US’s relative decline in the face of China’s high-tech military might

    • Monday, 2 May, 2022
      ReviewPolitical books
      The Avoidable War — averting a conflict between the US and China

      In his new book, former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd urges a policy of ‘managed strategic competition’

    • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Seven Games by Oliver Roeder — let us play

      Humans have always loved to play games such as chess and poker, whether for reasons of survival, control or just plain fun

    • Thursday, 4 November, 2021
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      Give war a chance — the new global balance of power

      Three books give their views on rising tensions between east and west, the theatres of battle and what must be done to gain ascendancy

    • Wednesday, 25 August, 2021
      ReviewPolitical books
      To Kill a Democracy and Modi’s India — a dream in peril

      Two books look at the rise of autocracy and inequality in the country

    • Monday, 19 April, 2021
      Business travel
      Airtight rooms and glass walls — Singapore pioneers pandemic-era meetings

      A new facility at Changi allows travellers to fly in for contact-free meetings

    • Wednesday, 14 April, 2021
      ReviewFT Books Essay
      The lay of the land: how geography shapes national destiny

      Is a country’s fate determined by its terrain? Three new books examine the links between territory, power and conflict

    • Monday, 28 December, 2020
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      The Weirdest People in the World by Joseph Henrich — natural selection

      This eclectic account of why the west prospered rests on a bold claim — not marrying cousins

    • Friday, 27 March, 2020
      Coronavirus
      Checkmate for Earth’s last big sporting contest

      Ekaterinburg’s Candidates Tournament succumbs to the inevitable while Singapore’s coronavirus siege goes on

    • Thursday, 19 March, 2020
      Weekend long reads
      How to save the human race from extinction

      If coronavirus doesn’t kill us, what about climate or AI? Here’s why we must get serious about saving the world

    • Friday, 20 December, 2019
      Chess
      Magnus Carlsen’s fantasy football ascent is a triumph of data mastery

      The chess grandmaster shows what you can do with the clever analysis of numbers

    • Friday, 19 July, 2019
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Is it time to declare the end of globalisation?

      Two books try to make sense of what has gone wrong — but ignore the successes of emerging markets

    • Thursday, 25 April, 2019
      Belt and Road Initiative
      China needs to make BRI more transparent and predictable

      Global infrastructure project must move beyond mish-mash of opaque bilateral deals

    • Wednesday, 6 March, 2019
      ReviewEconomics books
      Have markets and states forgotten about people?

      Raghuram Rajan’s The Third Pillar skilfully unpicks the tensions between capitalism, democracy and community

    • Wednesday, 23 January, 2019
      ReviewEconomics books
      The Globotics Upheaval by Richard Baldwin — white-collar disruption

      When globalisation meshes with robotics, the losers will be the middle classes

    • Friday, 16 November, 2018
      Chess
      The next big move for chess

      The game is now fashionable for a different reason: artificial intelligence

    • Friday, 26 October, 2018
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Farsighted by Steven Johnson — precision planning or gut instinct?

      We still have a lot to learn about decision-making, and while organisations could learn a lot from military strategy — individuals may struggle to follow

    • Friday, 17 August, 2018
      Life & Arts
      ‘Crazy Rich Asians’ and the new face of the 1 per cent

      The groundbreaking film offers a timely insight into how the world’s wealth is shifting eastward

    • Tuesday, 12 June, 2018
      Indian business & finance
      London as a ‘Bollygarch’ bolthole rankles with New Delhi

      India makes no secret of its displeasure with the UK’s role as a haven for its tycoons

    • Tuesday, 22 May, 2018
      FT Books Essay
      The new world disorder: is war inevitable in the Asian century?

      A hard-headed realpolitik now governs the battle for influence between China, the US and India

    • Tuesday, 1 May, 2018
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Should democracy favour the elite?

      Dambisa Moyo’s ‘Edge of Chaos’ presents a divisive manifesto on how to fix democracy

    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2017
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Re-engineering an exodus: David Miliband on how to tackle the refugee crisis

      The former British foreign secretary sets out his proposals, which include giving cash directly to migrants

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