Comment: A lesson in how not to deal with China, Britain’s ne...

To view this email as a webpage, click here     Friday December 06 2013     Comment   A lesson in how not to deal with China   Britain, a permanent member of the UN Security Council, apparently has nothing to say on the rising tensions in the East China Sea       Britain's needlessly slow recovery   The government has been led badly astray by its decision to concentrate on deficit and debt rather than the health of the economy     A deficit memento and a cap trap   The purpose is to reinstate the burden as the core subject of British politics and convince voters that only the Tories can handle it     Political discipline is as vital as fiscal   Genuine and reliable support for business requires a more consistently disciplined approach than this government has recently displayed     Editorial: Rebalancing and belt-tightening   The risk from a consumer-led recovery is that a better fiscal position will be accompanied by rises in already stratospheric household indebtedness     Removing the caps on caps and gowns   The flipside of the chancellor's changes is they are likely to increase very significantly the pressure on poor-performing universities     Kremlin's soft power is back-to-front   Moscow is making itself the west's cultural bogeyman in order to augment its position both at home and in the near-abroad     Japan is channelling the 1970s   Policy makers are trying to prod the Japanese out of their torpor. Far from fighting demands for higher wages, Abenomics is encouraging them     Delivery drones could change the world   We already drive heavy chunks of metal around, killing people every day, so it's safe to assume that we'll get over any safety concerns about drones     There's little to love in Amazon's drones   The online retailer's plan to replace package delivery staff with unmanned aerial vehicles is yet another way of preventing human interaction         Opinion   George Osborne sticks to the deficit   The chancellor's measures will go some way to reminding voters of the magnitude of Britain's borrowing, and of their preference for the Tories to bring it down       The difference that seven months can make   A great deal of change in the UK's government borrowing picture and yet no difference         Manage email    Forward this email   Feedback    Manage portfolio Subscribe to the FT Follow the FT   Unsubscribe | My Account | RSS | Privacy Policy | About Us | Help   © THE FINANCIAL TIMES LTD 2013 You have received this email because you have signed up from the NBE preference page. This email was sent by a company owned by Pearson plc, registered office at 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL. Registered in England and Wales with company number 53723.