May 6, 2013

Toxic smog smothers the Chinese dream

©Matt Kenyon

Beijing may be ready to act over the country’s appalling pollution

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Syria undermines Obama’s strategy

The president’s aim is to pivot to Asia rather than the Middle East

An Ingram Pinn illustration of a French guillotine ©Ingram Pinn Apr 22, 2013

France should shun talk of revolution

The public mood is dark but the country’s situation is not so bad

An Ingram Pinn illustration of Mariano Rajoy, Spain's prime minister ©Ingram Pinn Apr 15, 2013

Europe is no longer Spain’s solution

The people are losing faith in national and EU institutions

Thatcher & Gorbachev ©AFP From WORLD Apr 8, 2013

Thatcher backed globalisation but defended nation state

Tension defined her relationship to EU – and continues to mould Britain

Kim Jong Un ©AFP Apr 1, 2013

North Korea tests the limits of a MAD world

If there is a state that might defy the logic of nuclear deterrence, it is Kim Jong-eun’s

Ingram Pinn illustration ©Ingram Pinn Mar 25, 2013

The making of a German Europe

A project designed to avoid conflict has led to hostility towards Berlin

Ingram Pinn illustration ©Ingram Pinn Mar 18, 2013

Europe’s leaders run out of credit in Cyprus

The bigger problem remains the gap in trust between the north and the south

Disordered sofas and tables on a terrace overlooking the Oriental Pearl TV tower in Shanghai ©Bruno Barbey/Magnum From LIFE & ARTS Mar 15, 2013

The middling kingdom

A challenge to the view that China is poised to supplant the US as dominant global superpower. The FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator reviews ‘China Goes Global’, by David Shambaugh

©Dreamstime From SPECIAL REPORTS Mar 12, 2013

International affairs: Rising with the tide

Future policy must ensure the capital continues to benefit from globalisation

Mar 11, 2013

Prepare for endgame in North Korea

The US and China should pool ideas on the nuclear threat

Mar 4, 2013

Euro crisis is breeding comics not fascists

Times may be tough but this is not the 1930s. Modern Europe is a richer, less traumatised continent

Feb 25, 2013

West complacent over why nations fail

Politics is too often captive to procedures and principles

Feb 18, 2013

Disarmed Europe will face the world alone

One day Europeans may find that the US military is not there to deal with threats lapping at their frontiers

Feb 11, 2013

A rare sighting of good news in Europe

The gloom that has haunted the region has lifted slightly

Feb 4, 2013

The shadow of 1914 falls over the Pacific

China, like Germany 100 years ago, fears the established power is intent on blocking its ascent

Jan 31, 2013

Obama looks inward, America’s allies worry

US strength in the world rests on the power of its economy

Jan 28, 2013

A conspiracy of reasonable people

But if China stops playing by Davos rules, the golden years of the WEF will be over

From WORLD Jan 25, 2013

Syria consensus coalesces in Davos

There is much less agreement on how to end the civil war

From LIFE & ARTS Jan 25, 2013

The Diary: Gideon Rachman

The FT’s chief foreign affairs commentator seeks out a Buddhist monk on the ‘Secrets of Success’ on his first night in Davos

ABOUT GIDEON

Gideon RachmanGideon 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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