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CIA chief made secret trip to China in bid to thaw relations

Bill Burns is the most senior Biden administration official to have visited the country

US defence chief warns China against risky behaviour in Indo-Pacific

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The Big Read. How the US is deepening military alliances in China’s backyard

Saudi Arabia’s ‘prickly prince’ of oil bristles as crude price slides

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The Long View. Inflation back at the top of the fear list for worrywart investors

AI has given Palantir its mystique back

Top stories

More than 400 Grail patients incorrectly told they may have cancer

Error prompts life assurance customers to pause or review relationship with early detection biotech

The Big Read. Quick blood tests to spot cancer: will they help or harm patients?

Train crash in India kills more than 200 people

Investigation under way into cause of country’s deadliest rail accident in decades

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Six Glazer siblings could retain Manchester United stakes under Ratcliffe offer

Billionaire seeks enough B shares to take control in a years-long phased takeover of club

Women’s football prepares for record-breaking Champions League final

US economy defies expectations of slowdown to add 339,000 jobs in May

Unemployment rate climbs to 3.7% while wage growth cools

Why America’s economic policy muddle matters

Spotlight

Lunch with the FT. Sci-fi writer Ted Chiang: ‘The machines we have now are not conscious’

The visionary author on the limits of AI, the uses of science fiction — and why there’s a ‘market opportunity for volleyballs’

AI will create ‘more losers than winners’ even as Nvidia soars

Big investor says chipmaker will be among handful of tech groups to drive stocks higher

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US-China relations

Musk and Dimon lead corporate charge to Beijing as ties with US fray

China courts global business leaders in push to boost confidence in economic recovery

Airline orders point to resurgent post-pandemic travel demand

Airbus and Boeing struggle to meet delivery targets amid a shortage of components

Obituary. Harvey Pitt, former SEC chair, 1945-2023

He was deeply committed to shaping financial regulation but came under heavy criticism for his efforts to co-operate with industry

Technology

Ecuador’s president Lasso bows out of August election

Latin American country’s leader had dissolved congress and called snap poll after facing impeachment charges

Cryptocurrencies

Crypto addiction creates doubts over how to regulate digital trading

Debate over whether sector should come under scope of financial services or be treated like gambling

Middle Eastern politics

Investor favourite Mehmet Şimşek set to return as Turkish finance minister

Move signals that President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan may be open to a more orthodox economic approach

West considers renewed engagement on Iran nuclear crisis

Facebook to block news for some users in Canada

Social media platform’s parent company Meta seeks to deter law forcing online groups to pay publishers and broadcasters for content

US politics & policy

US Senate passes bill to end debt ceiling stand-off and avoid default

Legislation heads to Biden for his signature just four days before Treasury deadline

‘Faith in the Speaker’: McCarthy defies critics with US debt ceiling win

Opinion

Person in the News. Justine Triet, a Palme d’Or winner facing the spotlight

The filmmaker’s critical acceptance speech has set off a furore in France

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Rolling crises have ensured that government relations is no longer a backwater department

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US News

‘People rot from the inside out’: lethal xylazine deepens the US drug crisis

Cartels are cutting fentanyl with the cheap sedative, driving a surge in overdoses in cities such as Philadelphia

US-China tensions have upended global order, Jamie Dimon warns

Loan market braced for rush to Libor finish line

Top Fed official sees no ‘compelling’ reason to wait for fresh rate rise

Pentagon accuses Chinese fighter jet of ‘aggressive’ action near US plane

Total and Belgian energy start-up plan US synthetic gas investment

Goldman weighs another round of job cuts as dealmaking drought persists

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‘Stream’ and ‘Torch’: the Gazprom-backed militias fighting in Ukraine

Russia’s state gas company has recruited, equipped and paid security guards to join the invasion

Throwaway Britain: what happens to our old tech?

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Saudi crown prince turns to ‘state capitalism’ after change in the guard

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UK’s top private equity executives take home £2.7bn in carried interest

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