Month: July 2025

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Foreign spies are “aggressively” targeting Australia in sectors spanning rare earths to Antarctic research and even stealing rare plants, according to the head of the country’s intelligence service, as he estimated the financial damage from espionage for the first time. Australia’s role in the Aukus nuclear submarine pact with the US and UK was also the subject of “a very unhealthy” amount of interest from foreign intelligence services, said Mike…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Bank of Japan governor Kazuo Ueda has said the US-Japan tariff deal was a “big step forward”, as the central bank raised its inflation forecasts, prompting speculation that it will resume its monetary tightening cycle this year. The BoJ said on Thursday that it had unanimously decided to hold short-term interest rates at 0.5 per cent following its two-day meeting, a move widely expected by analysts. The US and Japan…

Hello. This is Kenji from Tokyo, your host for this week’s #techAsia newsletter. Much of Japan has been hit by blistering heatwaves for days and weeks, and the debate over US President Donald Trump’s tariff, trade and investment policy remains just as hot. Under the scorching Tokyo sun on Tuesday, Chinese government officials extended an olive branch to Japanese businesses, promoting the country’s biggest trade exhibition, the Canton Fair. Luo Xiaomei, minister in charge of economic and commercial affairs at the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo, and Ma Fengmin, deputy director-general…

Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world Donald Trump has described India as a “dead economy” and said the US does “very little business” with the country, ratcheting up his fiery rhetoric against the world’s fifth-largest economy as the two sides hit an impasse over his threat of 25 per cent tariffs on Indian goods. The US president, writing on his Truth Social platform early on Thursday, attacked India alongside its long-standing defence and trade partner Russia,…