Edward Luce
@EdwardGLuce
Associate Ed at the FT, US-based writer/columnist. Author of Zbig, America's Cold War Prophet. On the Economist, Foreign Affairs, FT & Wapo's best books of 2025
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"The term “lame duck” would be haunting any other president’s sleep. But the concept is alien to Trump. He spends more of his time telling people about his architectural plans than he devotes to Iran, AI or the economy. Insoluble problems hold no interest." My column.
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"Were America consciously trying to put China off from talking about AI it could not have arranged it better." My Swamp Notes with @AsiaLens on next week's stillborn Xi-Trump summit.
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"Bessent is badly harming himself in his quest not to disappoint the president. As one Washington veteran quipped: “Bessent makes Steve Mnuchin look like Alexander Hamilton.”" My column.
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The next 9/11, or far worse, is there in plain sight. Yet apparently it is communism not AI that threatens America. Me on Dallas, Trump and our unlearning species. Free to read.
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Rarely has a geopolitical roll of the dice gone so rapidly wrong. Netanyahu played on Trump’s vanity to help convince him to start this war. That same vanity will now be deaf to any future bridges Netanyahu might try to sell.” My column
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"As case studies of how to throw away strong hands, Putin and Trump are without peer. As the lap into which most of their cards have fallen, China is the main beneficiary." My column.
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