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Gideon Rachman

Chief Foreign Affairs Commentator

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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    How Donald Trump's disruptive foreign policy affects the world

    Gideon Rachman, FT chief foreign affairs commentator, looks at the impact of the president's decision-making

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    Events in both places show how single-grievance protests can evolve into wider movements

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    From Kashmir to Ukraine, several flashpoints highlight the instability that flows from unpredictable foreign policy

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    Forty years of prosperity in the region are now under threat

  • Thursday, 1 August, 2019
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    Hong Kong protests: what happens next?

    In this special episode from Hong Kong, Gideon Rachman talks to Regina Ip, a member …

  • Monday, 29 July, 2019
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    Hong Kong is a flashpoint in the new cold war

    Beijing is likely to prioritise political control of the territory over the economy

  • Monday, 29 July, 2019
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    Escalating Hong Kong protests challenge Beijing

    The FT's Gideon Rachman examines the impact of pro-democracy demonstrations

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
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    Why US-Iran tensions spell danger for Britain's new PM

    The diplomatic crisis with Iran could push the UK into a military conflict

  • Monday, 22 July, 2019
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    Global Britain assumes a world that is moving towards free trade, rather than against it

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    Gideon Rachman selects his mid-year reads

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    There is no reason why an ethnic Chinese society cannot also be a democracy

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    The author’s follow-up book on Trump’s second year is hilarious, scary and filled with a sense of impending doom

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    The more the president deploys weapons of economic destruction, the more he undermines trust in the US

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    Beijing, Berlin and the two 1989s

    Events have upended western assumptions about China’s path to democracy

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