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Gideon Rachman

FT WRITER

A gradual reopening of the Strait of Hormuz – while talks begin over Iran’s nuclear programme – leaves a lot of room for disputes and misunderstandings.

A fragile Iran peace follows a war without victors

Trump’s deal reflects the failure of the military option in Iran

European confidence in American leadership is at an all-time low; more people in Spain, Italy, France and Germany now regard the US as a threat than a “close ally”, a poll shows.
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Are Europe and America headed for divorce?

For now, the two sides remain locked in an unhappy marriage

Anti-Trump protestors in Nuuk, Greenland's capital. US President Donald Trump’s threat to annex Greenland raises the once-unthinkable prospect that America could use its military to seize territory from Denmark – a Nato ally.

Europe must not appease Trump on Greenland

By capitulating again, the EU and UK would signal that we are now irrevocably in a might-makes-right world

A new analysis shows that China is the sole supplier of key chemicals in widely used pharmaceutical products.

China is well positioned for a trade showdown with Trump

Rare earths are not the only Chinese product that America would struggle to replace

If Maga makes Americans poorer, Trump and his movement are likely to pay the price.
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How Trump could destroy his own political movement

The US president and his followers are entering new and dangerous territory

Photovoltaic modules for solar panels being made in a factory in China. European policymakers know that the green transition targets they have set will be impossible without Chinese electric vehicles, batteries and solar panels.

Trump is sowing the seeds of an anti-American alliance

By targeting allies and neighbours with tariffs, the US is playing into the hands of China

People taking cover by the side of a road in Tel Aviv as a siren sounds, after Iran fired a salvo of ballistic missiles at Israel on Oct 1.

Israel and Iran have just delivered the US election’s ‘October surprise’

With American policy in the Middle East in tatters, Donald Trump could be the principal beneficiary of escalation in the region

The popularity of Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida with the Biden administration goes well beyond routine backslapping for a close ally.

Japan doubles down on US alliance as China looms

Tokyo and Washington are both determined to prevent Beijing from dominating the Indo-Pacific

For the Biden administration, Aukus is a centrepiece of efforts to contain Chinese power.

The squawkus about Aukus is getting louder

The strategic case for the Australia-UK-US pact is sound, but technical and political doubts are growing

A makeshift memorial to late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny in front of the former Russian consulate in Frankfurt, Germany, on Feb 20.

The strange loyalty of Putin’s global fan club

Admirers of the Russian leader may soon lead the world’s three largest democracies

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