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John Paul Rathbone

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John Paul Rathbone is the defence and security correspondent of the Financial Times. He was previously Latin America editor; Tokyo-based business and markets editor at Nikkei Asia, a sister publication that covers Asian business and politics; and deputy editor of the Lex column.

Author of the 2010 New York Times best-seller “The Sugar King of Havana: the rise and fall of Julio Lobo, Cuba’s last tycoon”, John Paul joined the FT in 2008.

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  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    The Big Read
    Saving Ukraine’s economy: the grain giant fighting for survival

    Nibulon helped turn the country into the ‘breadbasket of the world’. The Russian invasion has brought it to its knees

  • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
    UK Budget
    UK defence ministry to receive extra £6bn over next five years

    Budget allocation comes on top of £5bn for next two years promised by Rishi Sunak

  • Monday, 13 March, 2023
    UK defence spending
    UK warns China poses ‘epoch-defining challenge’ to world order

    Government’s updated integrated review of foreign and defence policy lists Russia as the most immediate challenge

  • Sunday, 12 March, 2023
    UK foreign policy
    Sunak promises to ‘fortify’ Britain against Russia and China

    Extra £5bn boost to military spending included in update to UK defence and foreign policy

  • Saturday, 11 March, 2023
    Military technology
    Aukus: the industrial challenges of delivering a new defence pact

    The deal to supply Australia with nuclear-powered submarines will test the countries’ abilities to share technology

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Aukus
    Australia to buy US submarines to bridge gap before UK-design boats

    Multi-stage Aukus pact will culminate in 2040s with next- generation nuclear-powered fleet

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    US-Iran tensions
    US issues sanctions on Chinese companies for supplying parts in Iranian drones

    Treasury says Russia used the unmanned aerial vehicles in Ukraine

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Ukraine’s battle of diminishing returns for Bakhmut

    Eastern Ukrainian city has become an attritional trap where both sides seek to deplete each other’s ranks

  • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
    Aukus
    Britain to play bigger role in Aukus submarine deal than envisaged

    UK minister says negotiations have ‘gone our way’ ahead of unveiling of new designs

  • Tuesday, 7 March, 2023
    UK defence spending
    Failure to sustain defence spending would imperil Nato pledge, MPs warn

    British army’s capacity to deploy effective force to mainland Europe questioned in parliamentary report

  • Monday, 6 March, 2023
    News in-depthRussian politics
    Russia and Iran hesitate over co-operation as west warns of costs

    Moscow held off buying Iranian missiles over fears Ukraine would receive long-range rockets, say officials

  • Monday, 20 February, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast11 min listen
    Biden in Poland for Ukraine War anniversary

    FT correspondents weigh in on the war after one year of fighting

  • Saturday, 18 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Chinese peace proposal on Ukraine provokes western scepticism

    Beijing’s top diplomat said its position paper would be based on respecting national sovereignties

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    InterviewWar in Ukraine
    Russia’s ‘big’ Ukraine offensive advancing in ‘metres not kilometres’, says UK defence secretary

    Ben Wallace says Russia is suffering heavy losses from ‘meat grinder’ tactics that may be unsustainable

  • Friday, 17 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Germany’s Scholz airs frustration over allies’ stance on tanks for Ukraine

    Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy urges Munich Security Conference to help him win against ‘Goliath’

  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    UK politics & policy
    UK defence secretary braced for ‘uphill battle’ with Treasury on military spend

    Ben Wallace to argue for extra funding ‘because the world is much more dangerous and unstable’

  • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Russia prepares Ukraine spring offensive

    Kyiv’s allies expect Moscow to alter combat tactics and employ more air power in planned attack

  • Monday, 13 February, 2023
    UK foreign policy
    Sunak says UK will do ‘whatever it takes’ as concern mounts over spy balloons

    London launches security review after US shoots down ‘unidentified object’

  • Friday, 10 February, 2023
    UK defence spending
    UK armed forces would last just ‘five days’ in a war, senior MP warns

    Tory chair of defence committee says cost of replacing kit sent to Ukraine and high inflation had created ‘a really grim picture’

  • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: how the UK took a vanguard role on arms for Ukraine

    British leaders have been feted in Kyiv for their role in galvanising allies to provide weapons

  • Wednesday, 8 February, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Zelenskyy’s speech spurs UK to look at sending fighter jets to Ukraine

    Ukraine’s president delivers impassioned call for ‘wings for freedom’ at historic address in London

  • Thursday, 26 January, 2023
    ExplainerWar in Ukraine
    Why are Ukraine’s allies arguing about tanks?

    Heavy fighting vehicles would give Kyiv a military advantage against Russia

  • Thursday, 19 January, 2023
    News in-depthWar in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Western allies at ‘inflection point’ on tank deliveries to Ukraine

    Tanks could help Kyiv expel Russia rather than just resist it, but escalation fears remain

  • Saturday, 14 January, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Military briefing: Soledar victory could cost Russia dear

    Ukraine may be deliberately wearing down its foe ahead of a counter-offensive, although both sides suffered heavy losses

  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    FT News Briefing podcast9 min listen
    Moscow’s military reshuffle

    EU draws up plans to stockpile scarce medicines

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