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...As the FT reported last week, US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and Philippine counterpart Jose Faustino Jr will join bilateral military co-ordination talks on Thursday, the first time such senior government...
...The plans come as the US and several of its allies in the region are escalating joint planning and training to cope with China’s growing military power....
...But with China having far more facilities to operate from, argues Cooper, this means the US “era of seamlessly projecting power in Asia in a contingency is over”....
...US-Philippine talks US defence secretary Lloyd Austin and Philippine counterpart Jose Faustino Jr will join bilateral military co-ordination talks in Hawaii, the first time such senior figures have participated...
...even more power than they already have....
...Frankly, Wright is a bizarre choice to direct a film about the power of words, things in which he has never seemed interested. Odder still, he doesn’t feel much engaged with the music either....
...Monday Philippines, newly elected president Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr delivers his first State of the Nation address. He has promised to “sweat” on Filipinos’ behalf....
...But while many swing — sometimes too quickly — between the public and private sectors, a different crop of Washington power brokers have made their fortunes floating seamlessly between both worlds....
...Two regional elections proved disastrous for Angela Merkel’s CDU, which could find itself out of power for the first time since 2005....
...That could give the centrists power to water down the new president’s plans, triggering disappointment on the progressive left....
...In London, the V&A is undertaking the restoration of an interior by the great American architect Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959)....
...The same couldn’t be said of Jimmy Carter, who had been governor of Georgia, Bill Clinton (Arkansas), Bush Jr (Texas), or Barack Obama (two years in the US Senate)....
...Robert Wann Jr has been hired by law firm Baker Botts as a partner in its corporate practice in New York. Wann joins from White & Case....
...Many of the most damaging disclosures, such as details of Donald Trump Jr’s 2016 meeting with a Russian lawyer, have come from within the White House....
...London’s power would have felt as permanent as stone....
...Barbara Mason, a Philadelphia soul singer, sang it, as did southern soul belter Oscar Toney Jr....
...Kornegay, Jr. Senior vice-president, supply management, Hilton Worldwide 11. Ken Olisa Chairman, Restoration Partners 12....
...John Lloyd is an FT contributing editor...
...John.Lloyd@ft.com...
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