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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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  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    Geopolitics
    China, Japan and the Ukraine war

    The merging of geopolitical rivalries in Asia and Europe has disturbing echoes of the 1930s

  • Monday, 20 March, 2023
    Geopolitics
    The real meaning of Xi’s visit to Putin

    Talk of a peace plan for Ukraine will obscure the tightening of ties between China and Russia

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    Asia maritime tensions
    Aukus, the Anglosphere and the return of great power rivalry

    The US, the UK and Australia believe that preparing for a war with China may be the best way of preventing one

  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    Chinese politics & policy
    China has a fateful choice to make on Ukraine

    A decision to supply Russia with weapons would bring Beijing’s rivalry with Washington to boiling point

  • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
    Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
    Bill Gates on Ukraine’s ‘shock to the system’

    US philanthropist on shrinking aid budgets, climate, technology and China-US tensions

  • Monday, 27 February, 2023
    Mexico
    Amlo’s strongman act is weakening Mexico

    The president’s attacks on national institutions threaten democracy and stability

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Ukraine: a year at war

    Listen to a special podcast series hosted by Gideon Rachman

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Life in a war zone

    Ukraine MP Lesia Vasylenko describes what it was like to wake up in a war zone

  • Thursday, 23 February, 2023
    Rachman Review podcast21 min listen
    Ukraine series: the battle for Bakhmut

    How the eastern city came to play a central role in the war

  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    There is no quick path to peace in Ukraine

    The western alliance’s public confidence over the war masks private anxiety 

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    Ukraine
    It makes no sense to blame the west for the Ukraine war

    The controversial arguments of John Mearsheimer have gained a worldwide audience. But they fail to convince

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    ReviewPolitical books
    Politics round-up — inside stories on turbulent times

    Observant accounts tackle Trump’s footsoldiers, Biden’s White House, Johnson’s downfall and Brussels diplomacy

  • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
    Rachman Review podcast28 min listen
    Ukraine series: life in a war zone

    MP Lesia Vasylenko on Ukraine’s resilience and why Russia must be held to account

  • Monday, 6 February, 2023
    Brexit
    Brexit could be reversed — here’s how

    Opinion is shifting but the public are running ahead of the politicians

  • Sunday, 5 February, 2023
    Chinese politics & policy
    How the spy balloon popped a US-China rapprochement

    Relations between Washington and Beijing remain trapped in a downward spiral

  • Thursday, 2 February, 2023
    Aukus
    White House optimistic on tech sharing for Aukus security pact

    Top US official sees ‘pathway’ for allies to build nuclear-powered submarines for Australia

  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    How the war in Ukraine met the culture wars

    Vladimir Putin has found friends in the west by posing as a defender of traditional values

  • Friday, 27 January, 2023
    FT Swamp Notes
    Tanks and the middle class Premium content

    Does pouring military aid into Ukraine really qualify as a ‘foreign policy for the middle class’?

  • Monday, 23 January, 2023
    Geopolitics
    The world’s democracies need to stick together

    Maintaining a united front on Ukraine and on China is getting harder

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    Global Economy
    Ghosts of former delegates haunt Davos cocktail parties

    Past attendees are dead, disappeared or in disgrace. What accounts for this run of ill-fortune?

  • Friday, 20 January, 2023
    FT Swamp Notes
    Celebrity speed dating in Davos Premium content

    A flavour of my experience at the World Economic Forum

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    InterviewFerdinand 'Bongbong' Marcos Jr.
    Marcos Jr says Taiwan tensions ‘worrisome’ for Philippines

    President to tighten military ties with US but also hopes for better links with China

  • Monday, 16 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    There is no path to lasting Russian victory

    Putin’s war has left his country isolated in Europe, while permanent occupation of Ukraine is unfeasible

  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    World Economic Forum
    Geopolitics threatens to destroy the world Davos made

    World Economic Forum delegates fear that a long period of peace and economic integration could be coming to a close

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    Rachman Review podcast23 min listen
    America’s hard right

    Republican zealots make a lot of noise but what is their policy agenda?

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