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Vladimir Putin and Wang Yi, China’s top diplomat, vowed to strengthen ties between their two countries despite “pressure from the international community” ahead of the first anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Wang’s visit to Moscow, the first by a senior Chinese official since Putin ordered the invasion last year, highlights the deepening relationship between
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The writer is an FT contributing editor and global chief economist at Kroll  Quantitative easing has developed a certain resemblance to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” — you can check out any time you like, but you can never leave. We should pay more attention to quantitative tightening, suggest former Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram
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Investors are betting the European Central Bank will raise interest rates to all-time highs, spurred on by the eurozone economy’s resilience and signs that inflation could prove tougher to rein in than expected. The Frankfurt-based central bank, widely seen as one of the world’s most dovish during its eight-year experiment with negative borrowing costs, is
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China and Russia agreed to oppose all forms of “unilateral bullying” and “promote democracy in international relations” during a meeting of Beijing’s top diplomat and Vladimir Putin’s security chief in Moscow on Tuesday, China’s state-run news service Xinhua said. The meeting between Wang Yi and Nikolai Patrushev came after the Chinese diplomat attended the Munich
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Joe Biden heaped blame on Vladimir Putin for waging a war of “choice” in Ukraine that Russia will “never” win, as the US president sought to rally the west for a long and bloody campaign to defend democracy in Kyiv. Speaking against the backdrop of Warsaw’s Royal Castle, Biden delivered a keynote speech that directly
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Israeli politics is in crisis. A large number of people have demonstrated on the streets against the rightwing coalition’s extensively criticised “judicial reforms”. The president, Isaac Herzog, has even declared that “We are no longer in a political debate but on the brink of constitutional and social collapse.” The programme of this government is of
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