Just because an order is in irreversible decline does not mean that chaos or calamity is inevitable. But if the deterioration is managed... Read More

China and Russia are pushing a reluctant West to re-examine its most cherished assumptions about the shape of the global order. Read More

Since the heads of state of the world's 20 largest economies began meeting annually in 2008, the proportion of pomp to content has varied.... Read More

A full-blown trade war between the world's two largest economies would likely produce an unpredictable and disruptive an outcome. Read More

“Our whole history is a fight for freedom. It's been our dream to have a country like we have today. And we must do more,” a... Read More

The Marriott hack is part of a much larger project that has been going on for half a decade.  Read More

What is most notable about China's efforts to spread its influence abroad is not their success, but the ease with which they are exposed.... Read More

Beijing's social credit scheme can be an intelligence trove for Washington.   Read More

The Silk Road Economic Belt—the overland component of Xi Jinping's signature Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)—promises to bind... Read More

The arrest of a Red Princess has sent relations between China and the America into a tailspin. Meng Wanzhou, daughter of the founder of the... Read More

A New Era of Religious Persecution Has Arrived... Read More

Partition in Iraq rests on Orientalist ideas – and overlooks what many Iraqis, minorities included, say they want Read More

The British prime minister survived a no-confidence vote, but solved none of her problems. Read More

It'll need support from Japan and Europe. Read More

The made-for-TV movie The Day After had an enormous impact on America's national conversation about nuclear weapons in 1983. Resuming that... Read More

Naypyidaw picks up the pace on the China-Myanmar Economic Corridor as other options for FDI fade away. Read More

Theresa May's victory in the 1922 committee confidence vote is one of those boxing matches that leaves both sides preparing for an early... Read More

In the long term the EU would be weaker without the UK. Its leaders must speak out, says Guardian columnist Timothy Garton Ash Read More

SARAH VINE: I have a simple message for those Conservative MPs who thought the best Christmas present they could give the country was a... Read More

Meet Abrar, 12, a victim of that policy. Read More

It's going to get harder to be friends with both global economic giants.  Read More

The Trump administration's conflict with China has little to do with US external imbalances, closed Chinese markets, or even China's alleged... Read More

The more significant coincidence of timing, perhaps, is with the renewal of Chinese interest in a free trade agreement with Canada. That... Read More

The Meng case is going to test our courage and wits on the precipice of a Sino-American confrontation Read More

Trump's trade war with China could be a golden opportunity for India. But first, it'll need to revisit its trade policies and regulatory... Read More

The French president can make all the concessions he wants, but he can't make the public like him. Read More

The anti-tax protesters are being replaced by something closer to Antifa. What ultimately will emerge from all this? Read More

The Prime Minister's statement in Downing Street this morning presented three central arguments against MPs voting that they have no... Read More

This is a huge gamble for Theresa May's hardline Brexit critics, and they are by no means assured of success. It has taken them a long time... Read More

As we approach the Brexit cliff edge, the Conservatives are squandering the time we have left, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland Read More

BENGHAZI—The young fighters huddled on lawn chairs in the nighttime shadows of the militia camp, smoking and drinking coffee. Around... Read More

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's march to reform the war-renouncing Japanese Constitution is still mired in a slog of domestic political... Read More

by Sara Kayyali Things are changing in Syria. The Syrian government has won the war. Refugees are beginning to return. The creation of a... Read More

The Turkish government is investigating some 15,000 more military members suspected of being connected with the Gulenist movement, and 4,000... Read More

The US remains committed to its allies in the face of Moscow's reckless behaviour Read More

Donald Trump's ideological cousins around the world want to reverse the feminist gains of recent decades. Read More

Jews in the US were being increasingly defined as “white” and antisemitism being distanced from groups that fight against... Read More

European cities are vying to become the next center of high finance. They should be careful what they wish for. Read More

The suspect was reportedly radicalized in prison and known to authorities. Read More

Some of the root causes of the unrest in Paris are specifically French. But many of them are all too familiar to mature economies worldwide. Read More

"My remit is my elected office, my means is our elected parliament, my oath requires my service of the republic, and thus my duty is... Read More

The French contradiction of a demand for lower taxes and better public services will stay unresolved. Read More

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, born 100 years ago today, did more than anyone to bring the Soviet Union to its knees. Read More

A recent study confirms a disturbing trend: American college students are abandoning the study of history. Since 2008, the number of students... Read More

Matthew Hedges wasn't the first academic to stand accused of espionage, and he won't be the last. Read More

The most important development in Libya's recent history may have just taken place. And it was not a high-level summit, but a new expression... Read More

A second referendum is now the only way out of this car crash, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee Read More

If no deal was such a catastrophe, why isn't the Government preparing for it like a catastrophe? Theresa May seems to have painted her... Read More

Once considered the motor of the European Union, the German-French partnership no longer has the clout it once did. That has recently become... Read More

Kramp-Karrenbauer, often referred to as AKK, won with only 52 percent of the vote to 48 percent for Friedrich Merz, the strongly... Read More

High-tech dominance won't be solved with tariffs. Read More

Putin himself, not Germany, reopened the NS2 debate with his blocking the Sea of Azov, seizing Ukrainian naval vessels and charging Ukrainian... Read More

Like everyone nowadays, I can predict everything except the future. But if MPs reject the government's Withdrawal Agreement (whenever it ends... Read More

The tone of those grieving for George H. W. Bush has something to do with the diminished place not only of white Anglo-Saxon Protestants but... Read More

As the Iraqi government has failed to improve the education sector, the illiteracy rate has increased significantly in different parts of the... Read More

The French president's planned budget giveaways to appease protesters are music to Rome's ears. Read More

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