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China’s economy loses steam ahead of new year holiday
The official manufacturing purchasing managers’ index fell to 49.1, the lowest since August, missing economists’ forecast for a modest expansion.
- Yujing Liu
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- Trump diplomacy
Trump pauses tariffs as Colombia backs down on migrant flights
The US and Colombia have pulled back from the brink of a trade war over military aircraft carrying deported migrants.
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- Phil Stewart and Oliver Griffin
Elon Musk: Tech giant, political force and video game king. Or is he?
For the US billionaire, being a “hardcore gamer” is a key part of his identity. But some in the community are starting to doubt whether he has the time or skill to be on the leaderboards.
- Eli Tan and Mike Isaac
NATO alarm as another undersea cable ‘sabotaged’
Disruption of the line between Sweden and Latvia follows earlier incidents linked to suspected sabotage by Russia and China.
- Richard Milne
Trump’s Palestinian refugee idea falls flat with Arab allies
Middle East nations rejected Donald Trump’s idea to resettle Gaza’s population as the Israel-Hamas ceasefire in the enclave held after a major crisis.
- Updated
- Wafaa Shurafa, Samy Magdy and Joseph Krauss
Greenland would be sold to UK before Trump due to 100-year-old deal
The US president needs approval from the UK prime minister to buy the island because of an agreement signed the first time America was interested in doing so.
- Dominic Penna
Opinion & Analysis
A woke mining boss shows why Trump’s DEI crusade will fail
Davos showed how many companies are convinced diversity and environmental measures make financial sense.
Columnist
Why nothing can stop Trump now
Very little stands in the way of the president’s goal of remaking America as he ploughs ahead with signing executive orders.
Columnist
Trump will only make China great
Readers’ letters on Donald Trump’s White House return, the ESG revolt, taxpayer-funded lunches, DEI initiatives, antisemitic attacks, and the return of Joe Aston.
Contributor
CEOs at Davos feel ready, even heady, for Trump 2.0
At the World Economic Forum, much of the global corporate elite is responding with surprising optimism to the new president’s radical and hyperactive agenda.
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From the Financial Times
- Opinion
- Workplace
A woke mining boss shows why Trump’s DEI crusade will fail
Davos showed how many companies are convinced diversity and environmental measures make financial sense.
- Updated
- Pilita Clark
NATO alarm as another undersea cable ‘sabotaged’
Disruption of the line between Sweden and Latvia follows earlier incidents linked to suspected sabotage by Russia and China.
- Richard Milne
War room, webinars: Corporate America tries to cope with Trump blitz
Businesses have been left trying to nail down what the tax, immigration, DEI and energy orders will mean for them.
- Stephen Foley, James Fontanella-Khan and Jamie Smyth
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- Workplace
A woke mining boss shows why Trump’s DEI crusade will fail
Davos showed how many companies are convinced diversity and environmental measures make financial sense.
- Pilita Clark
War room, webinars: Corporate America tries to cope with Trump blitz
Businesses have been left trying to nail down what the tax, immigration, DEI and energy orders will mean for them.
- Stephen Foley, James Fontanella-Khan and Jamie Smyth
- Updated
- Antisemitism
Stop ‘grotesque’ politicising of antisemitism: Dreyfus at Auschwitz
In Poland for a Holocaust remembrance service, Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus took aim at those he says are politicising attacks on the Jewish community.
- Hans van Leeuwen
Yesterday
Is Ukraine scamming Russian pensioners into blowing up ATMs?
Ukrainian phone scammers posing as Russian security agents are thought to be encouraging elderly Russians to set fire to infrastructure in Russia.
- Daniel Hardaker
Musk praises ‘German values’ at far-right rally
The tech billionaire made a surprise appearance during an AfD rally, speaking in support of the far-right party for the second time in as many weeks.
- Emma-Victoria Farr
This Month
Hamas frees four Israeli hostages in second swap
The four hostages Karina Ariev, Daniella Gilboa, Naama Levy, 20, and Liri Albag, 19, are all conscripts from a military surveillance unit.
- Maayan Lubell, Nidal al-Mughrabi and Dawoud Abu Alkas
Hegseth wins US defence secretary confirmation after historic tie-break
Donald Trump-backed Pete Hegseth narrowly secured enough votes on Saturday to become the next US defence secretary in what was only the second time in history a cabinet nominee needed a tie-break to be confirmed.
- Phil Stewart, Idrees Ali and Patricia Zengerle
Shackled migrants marched onto military plane
“Deportation flights have begun,” Mr Trump’s press secretary declared, sharing photos of men on an airfield wearing chains around their ankles and wrists.
- Ben Smith and Cameron Henderson
‘They can hire their own’: Trump ends security for Fauci, Bolton
President Donald Trump said he would feel no responsibility if Anthony Fauci or John Bolton were attacked.
- Stephanie Lai
Putin ready to meet Trump to ‘talk about’ Ukraine
If the 2020 US election had not been stolen, then “perhaps there would not have been the crisis in Ukraine that arose in 2022”, Vladimir Putin said.
- Vladimir Soldatkin and Anastasia Lyrchikova
Trump says he would ‘rather not’ impose tariffs on China
The president says threatening tariffs is his “one very big power” over Beijing, but he would prefer not to have to use it.
- Iris Ouyang
Trump moves fast to deport 1m legal migrants
A memo appears to allow Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to target programs that let in more than a million people.
- Hamed Aleaziz
Rude discovery: Trump confronts limits to his power in the complex US
Supreme power appealed to Donald Trump’s supporters, but the reality is America’s complex and at times cumbersome democracy just won’t allow for it.
- Matthew Cranston
Inside Musk’s huge White House power grab
The billionaire is pushing ahead with plans to infiltrate all parts of Trump’s administration after axing his co-leader at DOGE.
- James Crisp
- Updated
- International affairs
Argentina’s Milei tells West: Join Trump’s anti-woke alliance
The firebrand, chainsaw-wielding libertarian says a new axis is forming that wants to stamp out bloated bureaucracy and politically correct ideology.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Updated
- Energy
Trump slams Europe, threatens ‘trillions’ in tariffs
The president lambasted Canada’s trade surplus with the US and also fired a verbal volley at the European Union’s restrictions on his country.
- Hans van Leeuwen
The Queen, the spy and the decade-long conspiracy of silence
Anthony Blunt was a Russian spy for decades but he always told the Kremlin the Royal Family was off limits.
- James Hanning
Trump shrugs off China TikTok spying threat
The president downplayed any national security risk posed by TikTok, saying it doesn’t matter if China spies on “young kids watching crazy videos”.
- Ben Smith
Gas hopeful Tamboran pitches Trump on $8b outback data centre plan
The ASX-listed LNG developer is backed by incoming US energy secretary Chris Wright, and wants to power defence-focused digital infrastructure in the Northern Territory.
- Matthew Cranston
Why nothing can stop Trump now
Very little stands in the way of the president’s goal of remaking America as he ploughs ahead with signing executive orders.
- Edward Luce