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Japan’s Diet could elect a new PM, UK’s Labour will pick a deputy leader and Ireland set to get a new president

Ed Miliband says the government must act to tackle the country’s ‘affordability crisis’ and outlines clean jobs package

China’s critical minerals chokepoint has been hiding in plain sight for decades

Market Questions is the FT’s guide to the week ahead

Industrial policy has delivered impressive technological gains without productivity growth

BoE governor was speaking as central bankers debate rising trade barriers including from Donald Trump’s policies

Dutch seizure of a Chinese-owned chipmaker show EU’s balancing act between Washington and Beijing under strain

Gathering next week is seen as progress after new rupture in trade relationship over critical minerals

Carve-outs are for heavy vehicles and their parts that are compliant with Donald Trump’s 2020 trade pact

NHS likely to pay billions more for some medicines in exchange for lower tariffs on British pharma exports

The AI boom is helping to sustain growth but demand is coming from the richest consumers who own stocks while poorer Americans are being squeezed

Delay and darkness suggest the UK government is scared of making decisions

Eleventh hour derailment of the UN-backed emissions deal comes after US president labels it ‘green new scam’

Industry warns of disruption to European production following Beijing’s retaliation for Dutch government’s seizure

The contradictions in economic signals can still hold lessons for investors

Financial crises and their consequences may be harder to arrest today than in the past

Also in today’s newsletter, commander of US Southern Command to step down, and John Bolton charged

Its dual dependence on America’s digital services and Beijing’s critical mineral processing industry leaves it highly vulnerable

Goldwind’s vice-president Kai Wu says the country’s cost advantage has become ‘huge’

The US and China stand-off over the metals of the future