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Car and phone theft were once the preserve of petty crooks in London. Now they underpin a vast and spreading international criminal network. Why you should consider consulting a new oracle for making big life decisions: an economist. And the cult of the private chef.Listen to wha ... Show More

As temperatures climb, mosquitoes will migrate to places where natural resistance to malaria is lower. More and more severe natural disasters will make for more breeding grounds. How to stop a deadly disease getting deadlier? In China’s cut-throat food-delivery war, absolutely no ... Show More

Less than nine months after Syria’s dictator Bashar al-Assad was toppled, the honeymoon is over. How is the new regime responding to rising dissent? Introducing Britain’s revolutionary retirees: why pensioners increasingly dominate political protest. And celebrating the life of o ... Show More

From May 25, 2019: Our friends from the National Security Institute at George Mason University stopped by earlier this week to discuss U.S.-China relations. Lester Munson, Jodi Herman, Jamil Jaffer, and Dana Stroul, former Senate Foreign Relations Committee staffers who collabora ... Show More

This week, in the debut edition of the SpyTalk podcast, co-host Jeff Stein talks to the Washington Post’s Joby Warrick about an extraordinary CIA operation in Syria, as told in his new book, Red Line. Jeff and co-host Jeanne Meserve also discuss the Biden administration’s recent ... Show More

In this episode of Alphachat, Cardiff Garcia previews an interviewwith Anne-Marie Slaughter about her newly released book, UnfinishedBusiness, on gender equality in the workplace and at home. ShannonBond calls in from Washington to explain how the visit to the US ofPresident Xi J ... Show More

How the Biden administration steers the relationship between Washington and Beijing could have more impact on the rest of the world than just about any other American policy in the coming years.On this episode of Global Reboot, FP Editor in Chief Ravi Agrawal interviews former Pr ... Show More

Uber chief executive Dara Khosrowshahi has received about $136mn in stock options after hitting a performance target, and Adani is working to push India’s military capabilities. Plus, the FT’s Stephen Foley explains why McKinsey is drawing ire from US lawmakers.  Mentioned in thi ... Show More

Leland Miller, CEO of China Beige Book International, shares his thoughts on the latest economic data out of China. Dana Simberkoff, Chief Risk, Privacy and Information Security Officer at AvePoint, explains why cybersecurity is not ready for the boom in AI. Edelman CEO Richard E ... Show More

Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, met Xi Jinping, China’s president, in Beijing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

Antony Blinken, America’s secretary of state, met Xi Jinping, China’s president, as part of a three-day visit to China Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

What's behind Suella Braverman's comeback? Rishi Sunak defends the home secretary's return to the Home Office at his first PMQs. Chris Mason joins Adam to assess how it went, and updates us on the future of the government’s economic plan.Historian and host of the BBC podcast You’ ... Show More