FT News Briefing

China keeps peeling off Taiwan’s allies

The pace of US job growth is expected to have cooled in September, Ukrainian forces are continuing their counteroffensive in the southern part of their country, and China keeps trying to pick off Taiwan’s allies.   Mentioned in this podcast:<a href="https://www.ft.com/content/226135a7-0c73-45cb-a4ba-d8c5e4f415c5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">US jobs growth expected to have cooled in August</a><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4a154db7-a832-4bf7-80b4-09d4ff1954fa" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russian troops retreat from front lines in southern Ukraine</a><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/4351d5b0-0888-4b47-9368-6bc4dfbccbf5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in maps — latest updates</a><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/9d752c51-2c3d-4f93-85c1-49b4d663f075" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Paraguay calls for Taiwan to invest $1bn to remain allies</a> The FT News Briefing is produced by Fiona Symon, Sonja Hutson and Marc Filippino. The show’s editor is Jess Smith. Additional help by Peter Barber, Michael Lello, David da Silva and Gavin Kallmann. Topher Forhecz is the FT’s executive producer. The FT’s global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley. The show’s theme song is by Metaphor Music.  <a href="https://www.ft.com/content/6d7298d3-e732-48cd-83e1-c474865b472f" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com</a> Hosted on Acast. See <a href="https://acast.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:grey;" target="_blank">acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.

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