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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, 18 January, 2021
    Geopolitics
    America’s disarray is China’s opportunity

    China’s economy is growing strongly while the US is mired in a political crisis

  • Monday, 11 January, 2021
    Populism
    Europe is not immune from America’s political madness

    Conspiracy theories and political extremism are flourishing across the continent

  • Monday, 4 January, 2021
    Chinese trade
    Europe has handed China a strategic victory

    This is the wrong time for the EU to agree an investment treaty with Beijing

  • Wednesday, 30 December, 2020
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    Year in a word: Cancelled

    Public campaigns against alleged bigotry sparked high-profile resistance

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    FT journalists make their predictions for the coming year

  • Monday, 28 December, 2020
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    The perverse political effects of Covid-19

    Both the US and EU may end up being politically strengthened by the pandemic

  • Friday, 25 December, 2020
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    2020: A year in protests

    Protest movements abounded even as the pandemic raged but few led to victory

  • Thursday, 17 December, 2020
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    A World Safe for Democracy by G John Ikenberry — free thinking

    This thoughtful and profound defence of liberal internationalism looks at the political philosophy as a guide to future actions

  • Monday, 14 December, 2020
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    Britain will do a Brexit deal on Europe’s terms

    A power asymmetry puts the UK at a disadvantage in the negotiations

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  • Monday, 7 December, 2020
    European Union
    Europe is right to risk a double ‘no deal’

    The consequences of bad agreements over Brexit and with Poland and Hungary would last decades

  • Monday, 30 November, 2020
    Politics
    The perils and pitfalls of building multiracial democracies

    Managing ethnic, religious and cultural tensions is a challenge for countries all over the world

  • Monday, 23 November, 2020
    European Union
    Corruption is rotting the periphery of Europe

    The continent’s problems extend to troubled democracies beyond Hungary and Poland

  • Wednesday, 18 November, 2020
    FT SeriesBest Books of the Year 2020
    Best books of 2020: Politics

    Gideon Rachman selects his must-read titles 

  • Monday, 16 November, 2020
    US foreign policy
    Biden’s flawed plan for global leadership

    The signing of a huge trade deal in Asia shows the world is moving on without the US

  • Wednesday, 11 November, 2020
    News in-depthUS foreign policy
    Biden in the White House: which world leaders stand to lose out?

    For Russia’s Putin, India’s Modi and the UK’s Johnson, relations with the US will become more challenging

  • Monday, 9 November, 2020
    Populism
    Populists worldwide have lost their leader

    Donald Trump’s loss will deflate many autocrats outside the US, but it will not defeat them

  • Monday, 2 November, 2020
    US presidential election 2020
    Democracy can fail anywhere, even in America

    Trump’s suggestions that he will not accept defeat puts the country’s values under unprecedented strain

  • Monday, 26 October, 2020
    Chinese politics & policy
    China’s Covid triumphalism could be premature

    A cult of personality around President Xi threatens to bring bad government in its wake

  • Monday, 19 October, 2020
    Taiwan
    A distracted US is dangerous for Taiwan

    Political turmoil in Washington may open a window of opportunity for Beijing

  • Monday, 12 October, 2020
    Middle Eastern politics & society
    Three strongmen and their battle for the Middle East

    The Russian, Turkish and Saudi leaders are engaged in a struggle for power and influence

  • Tuesday, 6 October, 2020
    US foreign policy
    The Johnson government should fear Trump, not Biden

    A second Trump administration would adopt a much more coercive foreign policy towards the UK

  • Monday, 5 October, 2020
    FT SeriesNew Cold War
    A new cold war: Trump, Xi and the escalating US-China confrontation

    In the first of a series, Gideon Rachman explores how the rivalry between the two superpowers is starting to feel eerily familiar

  • Monday, 28 September, 2020
    US politics & policy
    America’s history war looms over the presidential election

    Trump’s call for ‘patriotic education’ creates a dilemma for the Democrats

  • Monday, 21 September, 2020
    Geopolitics
    Beware the long arms of American and Chinese law

    A rules-based order is giving way to something that feels more like 19th-century imperialism

  • Friday, 18 September, 2020
    FT SeriesFantasy dinner parties
    Gideon Rachman’s fantasy dinner party

    The FT columnist talks 20th-century history with some of its key figures

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