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Howard W. French

Reporter · US

Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Sep 28, 2026
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Jul 23, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Howard W. French

    What Xi Actually Thinks of Trump (opens the original)

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    Get audio access with any FP subscription. One of the most important outcomes of the recent summit in Washington between U.S. President Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, is something we are unlikely to learn soon, if ever. This has nothing to do with the failure of the delegations to release a joint statement, or even the large discrepancies between each side’s readout of their meetings. Rather, it is about the private estimates that Xi must have made at the conclusion of his

  2. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Howard W. French

    Discarding an Old Map and Seeing Africa With Fresh Eyes (opens the original)

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    Get audio access with any FP subscription. Since the advent of social media a couple of decades ago, hardly a week has gone by when I haven’t noted, often with a smirk or a shrug, some poster’s belated discovery of a long-known fact: The most commonly used cartographical representations of the world drastically understate the size of southern land masses, especially Africa, giving it an appearance far short of its true dimensions. Now, even the United Nations seems to have caught up. With one no

  3. Article · Aug 28, 2026 · Howard W. French

    Yes, We’re in an AI Bubble. Just Look to 1980s Japan. (opens the original)

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    Get audio access with any FP subscription. When the artificial intelligence sector’s overwhelmingly dominant chipmaker, Nvidia, announced quarterly results this week, many took this as a reason for confidence in the economic future of AI. Not me. My primary reflex, in fact, was fear. On their face, Nvidia’s results were unambiguously spectacular. Reported net profit doubled from a year ago to roughly $60 billion, compared with $6.2 billion just three years ago. The company’s revenues have double

  4. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Howard W. French

    Trump’s Twin Blunders (opens the original)

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    Get audio access with any FP subscription. In 2011, during the first term of President Barack Obama, the United States trotted out a new orientation for its foreign policy, which it dubbed a “pivot to Asia.” The central goal underpinning this strategy was to gradually downscale the United States’ profound, extravagantly costly, and—over a succession of administrations, both Democratic and Republican—ever-deepening security commitments in the Middle East so as to better face what it expected to b

  5. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Howard W. French

    Trump’s Twin Blunders (opens the original)

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    Get audio access with any FP subscription. In 2011, during the first term of President Barack Obama, the United States trotted out a new orientation for its foreign policy, which it dubbed a “pivot to Asia.” The central goal underpinning this strategy was to gradually downscale the United States’ profound, extravagantly costly, and—over a succession of administrations, both Democratic and Republican—ever-deepening security commitments in the Middle East so as to better face what it expected to b

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