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But US influence will be decisive ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/981f42b4-6565-4b26-be49-ba06bddab193</link><guid isPermaLink="false">981f42b4-6565-4b26-be49-ba06bddab193</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 17:50:22 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pitch for growth: will football help regenerate England’s cities?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Clubs in several big cities want to use new stadiums to redevelop entire areas. But they seek government funding to make the projects work]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b49e569a-179f-4c8f-a2d7-f759c821c436</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b49e569a-179f-4c8f-a2d7-f759c821c436</guid><pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 04:00:29 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is South Africa’s Cyril Ramaphosa running out of time?]]></title><description><![CDATA[He may have survived a bruising encounter with Donald Trump, but the veteran ANC politician is facing forbidding challenges at home and abroad]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d34a8363-487b-4950-bc6e-d11680b7f5b7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d34a8363-487b-4950-bc6e-d11680b7f5b7</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2025 04:00:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The lessons from China’s dominance in manufacturing]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beijing’s aggressive investments in domestic production have strained trade relations with western partners. But can the world learn from it?]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/724431ad-26db-4f6d-acab-ccb3cad11daa</link><guid isPermaLink="false">724431ad-26db-4f6d-acab-ccb3cad11daa</guid><pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2025 04:00:46 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The ‘quiet’ crisis brewing between the US and South Korea]]></title><description><![CDATA[Trade tensions are building, the military alliance is under pressure and Korean domestic politics are fraught. Can Seoul negotiate a way out?]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/337ee9b3-208b-447c-9172-8e8f29f7d15d</link><guid isPermaLink="false">337ee9b3-208b-447c-9172-8e8f29f7d15d</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 23:00:48 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Robert F Kennedy Jr’s battle with Big Food]]></title><description><![CDATA[The US health secretary is defying the industry to improve America’s diet. Is he going about it the right way?]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/7520dfbf-49b2-4d9b-8247-a0b80c5f1314</link><guid isPermaLink="false">7520dfbf-49b2-4d9b-8247-a0b80c5f1314</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 04:00:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Google still dominate search in the age of AI chatbots?]]></title><description><![CDATA[For the first time in a generation, its monopoly is under threat. After two years of false starts, the company is trying to regain the initiative ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/dec83193-c787-4301-8098-4277fdd0e5af</link><guid isPermaLink="false">dec83193-c787-4301-8098-4277fdd0e5af</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 18:21:12 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How the US plans to break China’s stranglehold on lithium]]></title><description><![CDATA[New technology that extracts the metal from underground brines has been compared to the shale revolution]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/ab1f74c5-4b07-465f-aa1f-3bf89418ba87</link><guid isPermaLink="false">ab1f74c5-4b07-465f-aa1f-3bf89418ba87</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2025 04:00:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Has Starlink already won the new space race? ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Elon Musk’s satellite system dominates the battle for the future of global connectivity. Amazon and Chinese rivals are working to catch up]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b635423f-e721-454c-b75c-98d0ad8fedf1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b635423f-e721-454c-b75c-98d0ad8fedf1</guid><pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2025 04:00:02 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Total’s risky bet on a natural gas megaproject in southern Africa]]></title><description><![CDATA[The French energy giant was forced to pause a huge LNG scheme in Mozambique after Islamist militants launched a deadly attack. Is the region safe enough for it to restart?]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/c0629936-79c8-4528-9b00-7456d042b6c9</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c0629936-79c8-4528-9b00-7456d042b6c9</guid><pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2025 04:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Will Trump’s tariff climbdown save the US from recession?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Markets cheered the deal with China. But away from Wall Street, confidence is plummeting and prices are on the rise]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/b27e769f-3266-4803-9128-ec7e6d635a2c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">b27e769f-3266-4803-9128-ec7e6d635a2c</guid><pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2025 04:00:56 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[The AI revolution changing how we predict the weather]]></title><description><![CDATA[Rapidly advancing technology is helping meteorologists to make more accurate and detailed forecasts even further into the future]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a1b6ab08-9703-45fb-b967-a40b4855bc17</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a1b6ab08-9703-45fb-b967-a40b4855bc17</guid><pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2025 04:00:25 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Flatter or confront? How world leaders are dealing with Trump]]></title><description><![CDATA[Four months after Donald Trump returned to the White House, governments are still agonising over how to approach an erratic, unpredictable American president]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/c7a267a8-a66c-4fe3-aca8-e22422edc034</link><guid isPermaLink="false">c7a267a8-a66c-4fe3-aca8-e22422edc034</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 18:10:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Ukraine lost hundreds of millions on arms deals gone wrong]]></title><description><![CDATA[Desperate to source munitions, Kyiv paid foreign brokers for weapons and shells that were sometimes unusable or never arrived ]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/0bac7e00-1cd1-4874-aab7-011122752d9c</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0bac7e00-1cd1-4874-aab7-011122752d9c</guid><pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2025 04:00:11 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Deep-sea mining: Can the US turn science fiction into reality?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Donald Trump’s executive order on undersea minerals has encouraged mining companies — but critics say it will damage the environment and struggle to make money]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/a09e534b-8e62-4056-abe5-86f4df096a79</link><guid isPermaLink="false">a09e534b-8e62-4056-abe5-86f4df096a79</guid><pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2025 04:00:17 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[What has Elon Musk’s Doge actually achieved?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Six months after the so-called Department of Government Efficiency was unveiled, it has yet to find a fraction of the hoped for savings]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/085430ab-27fe-46fc-a798-1059649d3b32</link><guid isPermaLink="false">085430ab-27fe-46fc-a798-1059649d3b32</guid><pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 04:00:45 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Can Europe finally fix its capital markets?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Stung by its lack of competitiveness, the EU is making a new push to create a deep financial market. Some investors believe this time could be different]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/e23117c0-3fe6-4b89-b1fc-c99f49976dc0</link><guid isPermaLink="false">e23117c0-3fe6-4b89-b1fc-c99f49976dc0</guid><pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 04:00:31 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How Xi sparked China’s electricity revolution]]></title><description><![CDATA[Beijing’s aggressive pursuit of energy self-sufficiency could give it the upper hand in the trade war with the US]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/f86782fa-9f2e-448a-b710-29e787dc9831</link><guid isPermaLink="false">f86782fa-9f2e-448a-b710-29e787dc9831</guid><pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2025 04:00:21 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[India and Pakistan: a conflict in the hands of two religious strongmen]]></title><description><![CDATA[Indian leader Narendra Modi and Pakistan’s army chief Asim Munir both believe they are fighting a just war against a sworn enemy]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d0299bee-4e37-4bc7-a752-85bf1932cfe7</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d0299bee-4e37-4bc7-a752-85bf1932cfe7</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 03:58:51 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bill Gates is giving away $200bn. Can his plans survive in the Trump era?]]></title><description><![CDATA[The philanthropist intends to spend his fortune over the next 20 years. But government budget cuts threaten his ambitions in global health]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/0cb4b390-9150-46df-9d81-9c70806d7b50</link><guid isPermaLink="false">0cb4b390-9150-46df-9d81-9c70806d7b50</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 13:58:39 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is Japanese anime the next global IP gold mine?]]></title><description><![CDATA[Japan’s distinctive cartoons are attracting worldwide audiences, Hollywood studios and private equity companies alike. Who will reap the rewards?]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/d16c2ac8-3604-4967-8a7a-9beb06b395a1</link><guid isPermaLink="false">d16c2ac8-3604-4967-8a7a-9beb06b395a1</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 04:00:52 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[How dealmaking fever hit Italy’s banking sector]]></title><description><![CDATA[Several transactions are on the table with billionaire investors, overseas shareholders and domestic politicians all affected]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/20962025-a142-4c13-ba97-24139da34967</link><guid isPermaLink="false">20962025-a142-4c13-ba97-24139da34967</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 04:00:58 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[China’s diplomatic charm offensive]]></title><description><![CDATA[Leaders are touring the world both to push back against US influence and also to shore up its export markets as its trade surplus rises]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/1f83c330-9e00-4935-b069-90341e13392a</link><guid isPermaLink="false">1f83c330-9e00-4935-b069-90341e13392a</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 04:00:27 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title><![CDATA[‘Sitting ducks’: the cities most vulnerable to climate disasters]]></title><description><![CDATA[Extreme weather means wildfires and flooding are becoming more likely, posing a risk to urban areas around the world]]></description><link>https://www.ft.com/content/57835a0c-9e58-4c1a-9c5a-f6a4cbe3f748</link><guid isPermaLink="false">57835a0c-9e58-4c1a-9c5a-f6a4cbe3f748</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 04:00:25 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>