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US chair of joint chiefs has first bilateral conversation with counterpart in Beijing since 2022
...Felicia, I have two questions: are there other things Biden could do to eject Netanyahu? Do you feel the generational split on Israel to which Haass was referring?...
...“The administration is in a very difficult situation . . . it is being perceived as aiding and abetting the humanitarian disaster in Gaza,” says Edward Djerejian, a former US ambassador to Israel under Bill...
...Do read my colleague, Felicia Schwartz, on the Ukraine news from Aspen....
...Duncan Edwards, chief executive of the BritishAmerican Business group, said the Atlantic declaration was “laudable” but warned it only signalled “intent rather than actual agreement” on many of the issues...
...from insiders — Chelsea Manning, convicted of leaking the Iraq war logs and state department cables; Joshua Schulte, convicted of leaking the technical details of how the CIA hacks high-value targets; and Edward...
...The most recent leak appears to involve fewer materials than the terabytes of information stolen in 2013 by then National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden or the thousands of state department cables...
...“That’s a real problem after Snowden, it’s a lesson we should have learned after Manning,” the official added, referencing leaks by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden and former army intelligence analyst...
...At least 100 apparently classified documents have been leaked online in the most significant unauthorised release of US intelligence material since the large-scale disclosures by former contractor Edward...
...The breach — which appeared to be the most significant since Edward Snowden released a trove of classified documents about US intelligence activities a decade ago — included apparently highly classified...
...My colleague Felicia Schwartz poses an astute qualifier to Biden’s no-limits support for Ukraine by asking how long that will also be true of the US in general....
...Lauren Fedor and Felicia Schwartz have the latest here....
...Additional reporting by Gloria Li, Nian Liu, Qianer Liu, Wang Xueqiao, Cheng Leng, Arjun Neil Alim, Maiqi Ding, Primrose Riordan, Chan Ho-him, Hudson Lockett and Felicia Schwartz...
Tensions run high over senior US lawmaker’s planned visit to island
...james.politi@ft.com, mehul.srivastava@ft.com Additional reporting by Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...Except that it is shoddy history, argues Edward Luce....
...and Arjun Neil Alim in Beijing, Nic Fildes in Sydney, Chloe Cornish in Mumbai, Peter Wells in New York, Henry Foy in Brussels, Victor Mallet in Paris, Christian Davies in Seoul, Peter Wise in Lisbon and Felicia...
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-February....
...Additional reporting by Cheng Leng in Hong Kong, Edward White in Seoul, Joe Leahy in Beijing and Felicia Schwartz in Washington...
...Edward Luce is on book leave and will return in mid-February. Your feedback And now a word from our Swampians . . ....
...Biden’s China strategy cannot work with weapons alone The asymmetry of Biden’s China policy increases the danger of what everyone fears — a conflict with China, writes Edward Luce....
...Glorious disarray — mulch and junk, torn photos, scraps of notes (“the brutality of fact”, “highly controlled chaos”) — around the twisted “Study for a Portrait of John Edwards” in Francis Bacon’s studio...
...Edward Burra, in Spain at the outbreak of hostilities – “it was terrifying: strikes, churches on fire and pent-up hatred everywhere” – developed as a result a dark, politically ambivalent vision....
...Would a knowing gardener ever pay £17.50 for a straightforward red-flowered Ribes King Edward VII in a pot at a height of about 3ft?...
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