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  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
    Nato
    Nato’s European members discuss 3% target for defence spending

    Increased military expenditure could be agreed at next year’s summit, intensifying pressure on national budgets

    Donald Trump and Mark Rutte
  • Thursday, 12 December, 2024
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    Will Trump pull America back from the world?

    So-called restrainers reject post-Cold War foreign policy consensus

  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    Janan Ganesh
    The western myth of the ‘guy we can do business with’

    Assad, Putin, Gaddafi — the free world too often gets its hopes up about despots

    Carl Godfrey illustration of a snake hidden in flowers.
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
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    ‘Race against time’: US struggles to respond to Syria turmoil during presidential transition

    Fast-moving events leave Washington fearful of Isis resurgence and divided over troop deployment

    Montage of Capitol Hill and images of rebel fighter with Syria’s flast and ruined poster image of Assad
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    US-China trade dispute
    Biden to hit Chinese cleantech imports with more tariffs

    Parting shot at geopolitical rival is effort to shelter US manufacturers from green-energy powerhouse

    Workers on a solar photovoltaic automatic intelligent equipment production line in Qinhuangdao, China
  • Wednesday, 11 December, 2024
    South Korea Politics & Policy
    South Korean upheaval rattles US plan to counter China

    Washington’s attempt to build alliance in east Asia could founder if a left-wing president succeeds Yoon Suk Yeol

    A protester holds a sign reading: ‘Arrest Yoon Suk Yeol’
  • Tuesday, 10 December, 2024
    Edward Luce
    Iran and the onset of a Trumpian world

    The end of the US-led order is giving way to a kind of chaos that chimes with the president-elect’s preferences

  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Syrian crisis
    ‘Terrorist’ label of Syria’s new rulers will need to be reconsidered, says UN envoy

    Geir Pedersen warns there is ‘no way to exclude’ Islamist group that led offensive against Assad regime

    HTS leader Abu Mohammad al-Jolani is greeted by supporters at the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus on Sunday
  • Monday, 9 December, 2024
    Gideon Rachman
    The west should not succumb to cynical regret over Syria

    Lots could still go wrong but the demise of one of the world’s most cruel dictators is welcome

    Illustration of a poster of Assad’s face poster torn to reveal the Syrian flag
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    The use and misuse of the presidential pardon

    Both Trump and Biden have abused a power that needs to be reformed

    US President Joe Biden talks with his son, Hunter Biden
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    Victor Cha
    The resilience of South Korea’s democracy remains in doubt

    How this ends is uncertain, but the nightmare scenario would be a return of the military to the streets

    Protesters gather in protest against President Yoon Suk-yeol near the National Assembly
  • Friday, 6 December, 2024
    US-China relations
    Trump picks former senator Perdue for ambassador to China

    President-elect says candidate’s international business career will help build relations with Beijing

    David Perdue in 2016
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    EU defence
    Europe races to set up €500bn defence fund

    Initiative is open to UK and would tap bond markets to boost spending for Trump’s White House return

    Live firing of the British Army’s new Archer Mobile Howitzer gun near Rovaniemi in the Arctic Circle, Finland
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    Adam Tooze
    Only China can now lead the world on climate

    As far as global environmental concerns go, the US has an irretrievably split personality

    Oil pump jacks in Midland, Texas
  • Thursday, 5 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    Warren Stephens: the Arkansan Spurs fan Trump is sending to London

    The billionaire history buff and former Clinton backer will be the US president-elect’s man in the UK

    Warren Stephens and Harriet Stephens pose together
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Peter Navarro
    Trump nominates Peter Navarro as senior economic adviser

    China hawk who served in president-elect’s first term was imprisoned for contempt of Congress over 2021 Capitol attack

    Peter Navarro
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    Mexico
    Mexico makes largest fentanyl bust as Trump’s tariff threat looms

    Drugs seizure comes after US president-elect says he will impose levies if flow of narcotics is not halted

    Packages of fentanyl and meth next to a vehicle, being guarded by a soldier, outside Mexico’s attorney-general’s headquarters in Tijuana, Mexico
  • Wednesday, 4 December, 2024
    UK foreign policy
    Sadiq Khan warns UK leaders not to be ‘sycophantic’ towards Trump

    London mayor’s comments come as he backs FT seasonal appeal with Magic Breakfast charity

    Sadiq Khan
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Trump picks Arkansas banker Warren Stephens as ambassador to UK

    Executive donated to president-elect’s campaign but his family’s bank was once associated with the Clintons

    Warren Stephens and his wife Harriet in December 2022
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Israel-Hamas war
    Trump warns of ‘hell to pay’ if Israeli hostages not released by January

    US president-elect’s comments come as Gaza ceasefire talks fail to make progress

    Donald Trump speaks at a podium. An American flag is visible in the background.
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Nato chief warns Trump of ‘dire threat’ to US if Ukraine pushed into bad deal

    Mark Rutte says risks to America will increase if China, Russia, Iran and North Korea are empowered

    Mark Rutte in a formal suit standing in front of several national flags and a Nato flag
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    Putin to reject Trump’s opening peace offer, says Russian tycoon

    Konstantin Malofeyev says Russian president to engage in talks only if they include broader conflicts

    Konstantin Malofeyev is seen attending a farewell ceremony for a journalist in Moscow.
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    Middle East war
    Amos Hochstein: US envoy who forged rare truce in Middle East

    Biden’s energy adviser exudes ‘positive American arrogance . . . he gets results’, says one official

    Amos Hochstein arrives for a meeting
  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    News in-depth
    Biden embarks on first and final Africa trip as US president with Angola visit

    African allies concerned incoming Trump administration will take stronger line on trade and security ‘reciprocity’

    João Lourenço shakes hands with Joe Biden
  • Sunday, 1 December, 2024
    US politics & policy
    Trump selects in-laws for key foreign policy posts

    Massad Boulos named adviser on Middle East while Charles Kushner will be US ambassador to Paris

    Charles Kushner and Massad Boulos
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