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Diplomats share tips on how to avoid humiliation in Trump meetings
Flattery can make the Republican receptive to a leader’s words, but only if he also thinks that leader strong.
- The Economist
Business owners warn Trump’s deportation plan could shut them down
Food producers, manufacturers and hotels are hiring lawyers to audit the legal status of their workers ahead of the president-elect’s deportation orders.
- Taylor Nicole Rogers
Why even Toyota is falling behind in the EV race
Japan’s automotive giants are racing to develop solid-state batteries and forge foreign alliances to regain the edge in global sales as electric vehicle leaders BYD and Tesla take over.
- Jessica Sier
- Updated
- Russia-Ukraine war
Ukraine will soon fire missiles 300km into Russia after US clearance
The US president has reversed his policy in the Russia-Ukraine war as Donald Trump takes over the Oval Office in two months.
- Updated
- Mike Stone and Humeyra Pamuk
The RFK Jr diet: No Big Macs, Cokes or dogs
Donald Trump’s public-health czar likes to talk about vitamins and has been known to post videos of himself lifting weights, shirtless.
- Rebecca Davis O’Brien
Trump seeks assurance that his economic chief will enact tough tariffs
The president-elect’s Treasury secretary appointment has kicked off a fierce lobbying effort among his loyalists.
- James Politi, Colby Smith and Demetri Sevastopulo
Opinion & Analysis
How Australia and Japan can keep global trade going
Middle powers can’t do much unilaterally but are large enough to mobilise coalitions for change to keep the world economy open and save the multilateral trading system.
Trade expert
The dark, unspoken promise of Trump’s return
The president-elect has laid out a blueprint for trampling the system of government as it is currently constituted, a blueprint of destruction.
Contributor
The meaning of Amsterdam’s ‘Jew Hunt’
Recent street violence in Amsterdam reveals profound changes in how the left and right deal with antisemitism. For European Jews, it’s a strange new world.
Europe correspondent
Why November 5 will not become the Waterloo of wokery
American voters rejected the culture warriors of the left when they picked Donald Trump. But don’t imagine those views won’t still be very powerful in 2044.
Bloomberg columist
From the Financial Times
Business owners warn Trump’s deportation plan could shut them down
Food producers, manufacturers and hotels are hiring lawyers to audit the legal status of their workers ahead of the president-elect’s deportation orders.
- Taylor Nicole Rogers
Trump seeks assurance that his economic chief will enact tough tariffs
The president-elect’s Treasury secretary appointment has kicked off a fierce lobbying effort among his loyalists.
- James Politi, Colby Smith and Demetri Sevastopulo
‘Anti-woke’ companies set to boom under Trump
Some in the president’s inner circle invest in the “parallel economy” of companies financing gun sales and a right-wing alternative to YouTube.
- Hannah Murphy, Stephen Gandel and Patrick Temple-West
Yesterday
‘Anti-woke’ companies set to boom under Trump
Some in the president’s inner circle invest in the “parallel economy” of companies financing gun sales and a right-wing alternative to YouTube.
- Hannah Murphy, Stephen Gandel and Patrick Temple-West
This Month
Trump’s new energy secretary linked to Beetaloo Basin gas project
Chris Wright’s Liberty Energy is behind the fracking fleet used for extraction from developing fields in the Northern Territory.
- Matthew Cranston
Advertisers set to return to X as they seek favour with Musk and Trump
Media executives said brands were preparing to advertise on X again, as its billionaire owner was likely to gain influence in the White House.
- Hannah Murphy, Daniel Thomas and Eric Platt
Albemarle says West cannot end reliance on China in critical minerals
CEO Kent Masters says “returns are not there” to pivot lithium supply, crucial for the EV industry, to the West because of low prices and high operating costs.
- Amanda Chu
Biden, Xi deliver messages seemingly intended for Trump
The US president seems to try to make the case for maintaining a relationship with Beijing, as Trump talks about imposing more punishing tariffs on China.
- Zolan Kanno-Youngs
China’s $2b Peru port faces obstacles from the Andes to the Amazon
While Chancay may rekindle an old dream of integrating South America’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts, there is no effective way to make it happen.
- Dayanne Sousa and Rachel Gamarski
Bessent, Lutnick in final push for Trump’s Treasury pick
Allies of both men have been lobbying in calls to the president-elect, which is creating tension and increasing the chance that another candidate emerges.
- Nancy Cook, Saleha Mohsin and Annmarie Hordern
- Opinion
- Trade wars
How Australia and Japan can keep global trade going
Middle powers can’t do much unilaterally but are large enough to mobilise coalitions for change to keep the world economy open and save the multilateral trading system.
- Shiro Armstrong
Why Musk will struggle to reinvent American government
Those carrying scars from previous efforts to streamline US bureaucracy are sceptical about the billionaire’s ability to get any of his agenda through.
- Joe Miller, Stefania Palma and Stephen Morris
Xi defends globalisation as Trump threatens tariffs
In his first major remarks since the US election, Xi Jinping’s message to the APEC summit was that the world was entering “a new period of turbulence and change”.
- Bloomberg News
Israel pounds area near Beirut amid signs of a widening offensive
Airstrikes on the Dahiya area, south of Beirut, where the militant group Hezbollah holds sway, were the latest in a string of bombings this week.
- Euan Ward, Aaron Boxerman and Farnaz Fassihi
Gaetz ethics report should be kept secret: Republican leader
Mike Johnson said releasing a report examining allegations of sexual misconduct against Donald Trump’s pick for attorney-general would be a “terrible” breach of protocol and tradition.
- David Morgan
Ukraine’s Zelensky slams Scholz’s call with Putin
The German chancellor spoke with the Kremlin leader despite objections from the Ukrainian president that it would play into the Russian’s hands.
- Michael Nienaber, Daryna Krasnolutska and Alberto Nardelli
- Opinion
- Trump's America
The dark, unspoken promise of Trump’s return
The president-elect has laid out a blueprint for trampling the system of government as it is currently constituted, a blueprint of destruction.
- M. Gessen
- Updated
- Inside China
China’s retail sales jump as economy shows green shoots
Stronger consumption figures suggest stimulus measures may be filtering through to household spending. But the property sector still faces major problems.
- Jessica Sier
Civil servants to flee as Trump ‘drains the swamp’ (again)
Everyone knew Trump’s cabinet picks would be provocative and a purge of government workers was coming. But they have arrived with stunning speed.
- Matthew Cranston
- Updated
- US Votes 2024
Trump picks ‘absolutely frightening’ Kennedy to run health
The president-elect’s choice to run US health has called vaccines a “crime against humanity” and has been linked to dumping a dead bear and decapitating a whale.
- Sheryl Gay Stolberg
- Analysis
- Antisemitism
The meaning of Amsterdam’s ‘Jew Hunt’
Recent street violence in Amsterdam reveals profound changes in how the left and right deal with antisemitism. For European Jews, it’s a strange new world.
- Hans van Leeuwen
In Kyiv, a message for Trump: Don’t sell us out to Putin
Ukraine-based Australian artists George Gittoes and Hellen Rose say the mood in the country is that far too much blood has been spilt to give up now.
- Elizabeth Fortescue
Trump to kill EV tax credit, ‘devastating’ industry
Ending the dollar incentive to buy electric vehicles could have grave implications for an already stalling US green transition. But it would probably benefit Elon Musk’s Tesla.
- Jarrett Renshaw, Chris Kirkham and Nora Eckert
