Geoff Dyer

Iran’s nuclear programme: a test of Obama’s sway with Hu

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By Geoff Dyer, China bureau chief Barack Obama has already moved on to the next aspiring Asian superpower - today he meets India’s prime minister Manmohan Singh - but plenty of people are still trying absorb what really...

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A high-wire act

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12 hrs ago
 

Climate change: As a result of its pledges on energy use, China no longer risks pariah status at Copenhagen – but ever bigger snags will hinder the roll-out of its plans, write Geoff Dyer and Fiona Harvey

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Books of the year

guardian.co.uk
Nov 22, 2009
 

Was it Thomas Cromwell's machinations, a frustrated MP's diaries, or a novelist's treatment of his father's suicide? We asked a few people… Peter Carey – novelist Kamila Shamsie's Burnt Shadows (Bloomsbury) has huge ambition...

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Stories From the Hunt for Evan Ratliff

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Nov 21, 2009
 

Writer Evan Ratliff Tried to Vanish: Here’s What Happened After Evan Ratliff was captured, Wired asked the most active hunters to send in their stories. Here are the answers: Mike Selinker Lone Shark Games Before the hunt...

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Revenge of the real

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Nov 21, 2009 7 related
 

Suffering from 'novel nausea', Zadie Smith wonders if the essay lives up to its promise Why do novelists write essays? Most publishers would rather have a novel. Bookshops don't know where to put them. It's a rare reader who...

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Muted welcome in Asia for EU appointments

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Nov 20, 2009
 

By Kevin Brown, Geoff Dyer, James Lamont and Jonathan Soble News of the appointments of Herman Van Rompuy and Baroness Ashton received a polite but muted response in Asia, where the European Union is widely regarded as...

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Obama makes final effort to reach out to Chinese

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Nov 19, 2009 2,004 related
 

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...

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A wary willingness

ft.com
Nov 19, 2009
 

By Geoff Dyer and Edward Luce In one of those happy coincidences of presidential scheduling, just as Barack Obama was receiving a private tour of the Forbidden City in Beijing on Tuesday afternoon following three hours of...

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Documentaries of bliss

guardian.co.uk
Nov 19, 2009
 

The re-released cinematic head-trip Forest of Bliss adheres firmly to the purer school of documentary-making The lowest form of documentary involves a presenter setting off on a journey to discover why he or she didn't yet know...

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FT Audio: President Obama’s visit to China

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Nov 18, 2009 1 related
 

In this audio interview, Edward Luce, the FT’s Washington bureau chief, analyses the significance of President Barack Obama’s first visit to China. Launch in Pop-up Download mp3 | RSS Feed | Add to iTunes | Audio Home

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