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	<title>Gideon Rachman's Blog</title>
	
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	<description>This blog covers a wide range of topics, from US foreign policy to the European Union and the "war on terror"</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Europe’s computer-dating system malfunctions</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/europes-computer-dating-system-malfunctions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:48:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gideon Rachman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Gideon Rachman 
If the answer is Herman Van Rompuy and Cathy Ashton, what the hell was the question? Europe&#8217;s choices for its new &#8220;president&#8221; and &#8220;foreign minister&#8221; are like the result of some sort of computer-dating programme that has gone badly wrong. If you fed in all the criteria for the jobs into your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Send veto, guns and money: the EU “presidency”</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/send-veto-guns-and-money-the-eu-presidency/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Beattie</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alan Beattie, the FT&#8217;s world trade editor
Look, not my specialist subject, but here&#8217;s my eurocent&#8217;s-worth on the appointment of the Baroness High Representative and the Lord High Everything Else.
(Incidentally, I&#8217;d have stuck with the classic original song for this blog post title, but if there&#8217;s one thing Brussels isn&#8217;t short of, it&#8217;s lawyers.)
The biggest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Saudi Arabia should rethink its Yemen strategy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/why-saudi-arabia-should-rethink-its-yemen-strategy/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/why-saudi-arabia-should-rethink-its-yemen-strategy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gideon Rachman</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Roula Khalaf, the FT’s Middle East editor

It was a distinctly un-Saudi affair. The traditionally cautious kingdom, careful to the point where its diplomatic initiatives must be guaranteed to succeed before they are even launched, found itself militarily thrown into the internal conflict in neighbouring Yemen.
In the past two weeks Saudi warplanes have bombed border [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Afghanistan: Karzai’s commitment on Afghan army and police</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/afghanistan-karzais-commitment-on-afghan-army-and-police/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/afghanistan-karzais-commitment-on-afghan-army-and-police/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:20:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>FT</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Blitz, defence and diplomatic editor, in Kabul
President Hamid Karzai&#8217;s inauguration speech has long been seen as a critical moment for him to spell out his determination to improve Afghan governance in his second term of office and begin the fight against corruption.
But the part of the speech that will make the headlines tonight [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama makes final effort to reach out to Chinese</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/obama-makes-final-effort-to-reach-out-to-chinese/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/obama-makes-final-effort-to-reach-out-to-chinese/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 11:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>demetrisevastopulo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Geoff Dyer, FT China bureau chief
Barack Obama made one last final attempt to speak directly to ordinary Chinese people at the end of his three-day visit, giving an interview in Beijing yesterday to Southern Weekend, one of China’s more outspoken newspapers.
Yet even that small gesture seems to have led to some minor skirmishes with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Chinese ‘dissidents’ glad to see the back of Obama</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/chinese-dissidents-glad-to-see-the-back-of-obama/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/chinese-dissidents-glad-to-see-the-back-of-obama/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>enidtsui</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/?p=4701</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Geoff Dyer, FT China bureau chief
Now that the Obama circus has left town, the biggest sigh of relief comes from the group of people often labelled as China’s &#8220;dissidents&#8221;: human rights lawyers, serial petitioners and democracy advocates. Even though the US president went out of his way to be diplomatic about human rights issues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How might Obama reduce his carbon footprint in South Korea?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/how-might-obama-reduce-his-carbon-footprint-in-south-korea/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/how-might-obama-reduce-his-carbon-footprint-in-south-korea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>demetrisevastopulo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Zach Coleman, FT Asia world news editor
Lee Myung-bak, the South Korean president, may have looked like he was bulking up ahead of Barack Obama&#8217;s first presidential visit to Seoul this week when he sported a sweater under his suit jacket.
In fact, Lee and his cabinet - who joined him adding some layers of protection [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FT Audio: President Obama’s visit to China</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/ft-audio-president-obamas-visit-to-china/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/ft-audio-president-obamas-visit-to-china/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:47:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ed Cheng</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/?p=4541</guid>
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In this audio interview, Edward Luce, the FT&#8217;s Washington bureau chief, analyses the significance of President Barack Obama&#8217;s first visit to China.
 Launch in Pop-up Download mp3  &#124;   RSS Feed   &#124;  Add to iTunes   &#124;   Audio Home
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		<title>Obama and Hu - Are they G2?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/obama-and-hu-are-they-g2/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/obama-and-hu-are-they-g2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 12:06:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>demetrisevastopulo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Geoff Dyer, FT China bureau chief
Have we just watched the launch of the G2? As Barack Obama has said several times this week, there are few big global problems that can be solved without the agreement of the US and China. And talking in terms of a G2 captures some of the shifting balance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Obama stoops but fails to conquer</title>
		<link>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/obama-stoops-but-fails-to-conquer/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.ft.com/rachmanblog/2009/11/obama-stoops-but-fails-to-conquer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>demetrisevastopulo</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mure Dickie, FT Tokyo bureau chief

The depth of Barack Obama&#8217;s pavement-scraping bow to Japan&#8217;s Emperor Akihito last weekend has become a matter of controversy at home drawing individous comparisons with the upright Dick Cheney  (see this Los Angeles Times blog).
So here&#8217;s my verdict on the president&#8217;s protocol performance.
First off, Obama definitely wins some credit [...]]]></description>
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