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Mar 2025
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Taiwan looks to play nice with Trump

Financial Times
About this episode

Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Ukraine was “ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible”, Taiwan is trying to get on US President Donald Trump’s good side, and private equity assets under management fell last year for the first time in decades. Plus, businesses are snapping up the wind and solar farms that governments are no longer backing.


Mentioned in this podcast:

Big businesses step up to buy energy from new wind and solar farms

‘Chips on the table’: Taiwan pushes for closer US ties as China threat looms

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine ‘ready’ to talk peace in bid to placate Donald Trump

Private equity industry shrinks for the first time in decades


The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson, Kasia Broussalian, Ethan Plotkin, Lulu Smyth, and Marc Filippino. Additional help from Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco, Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Our engineer is Joseph Salcedo. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.


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