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Julian D. Paulsen

Why Trump's bid to peel Russia from China won't work

Trump thinks that lifting sanctions and reintegrating Russia will weaken Moscow's alliance with Beijing. That is short-sighted. The world Henry Kissinger exploited in 1970 is no longer.

Shirley Ze Yu 08 April 2025
Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) hugs Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari at a signing ceremony in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on February 5, 2025. WU HAO / AFP

Beijing visit sees Pakistan recommit to its China alliance

The two states are deeply engaged in developing a trade route that would help China avoid a naval blockade. Now they are looking to move beyond trade

Kaswar Klasra 10 February 2025
Alex Wiliam

China's DeepSeek deals early blow to Trump’s AI dream

When a start-up using 2,000 old Nvidia chips produced a ChatGPT rival for $6mn, investors took around $1tn out of the big US tech firms. Donald Trump called it 'a wake-up call'. Never a truer word.

Abdulfattah Khattab 05 February 2025

China's DeepSeek AI crushes the competition

Fares Garabet 30 January 2025
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Chinese AI is catching up, posing a dilemma for Donald Trump

The success of cheap Chinese models threatens America's technological lead

The Economist 27 January 2025
Dominic Bugatto

Trump’s Three Ts—tariffs, tech and Taiwan—set to define US-China relations

As the world braces for the return of a president who sees Beijing as Washington's main rival, Trump's second act may look different this time around

Shirley Ze Yu 19 January 2025
A TikTok influencer holds a sign that reads "Keep TikTok" outside the US Supreme Court as it hears oral arguments on whether to overturn or delay a law that could lead to a ban of TikTok in the US on January 10, 2024. Kayla Bartkowski / AFP

The TikTok ban explained

What to know about the popular social media app's US ban

Rishi Iyengar 17 January 2025
Al Majalla

Why Trump wants the Panama Canal and Greenland

The president-elect wants the sovereign territory of friendly nations because China has designs on them

Abdulfattah Khattab 12 January 2025
A long March-2F carrier rocket carrying the Shenzhou-19 spacecraft and crew of three astronauts lifts off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, in the Gobi desert, northwest China, on October 30, 2024. ADEK BERRY / AFP

Why China is building a Starlink system of its own

When it is finished, Qianfan could number 14,000 satellites

The Economist 13 December 2024
President Donald Trump on October 11, 2019 hailed a breakthrough in his drawn-out trade war with China, saying the two sides reached an initial deal covering intellectual property, financial services and currencies. Nicholas Kamm / AFP

What an even more hawkish China policy could look like

A new report lays out recommendations on artificial intelligence, trade, and investment as Trump prepares to take office

Rishi Iyengar 23 November 2024
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Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa in Damascus, Syria, December 22, 2024.
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Politics

Ahmed Sharaa on Syria's 'zero-problems' strategy

26 August 2025

Syria's president says the Abraham Accords aren't the right fit for Damascus. Instead, he hopes to reinstate the 1974 disengagement agreement with Israel or something similar

Ibrahim Hamidi
Tunisia's President Kais Saied (R) shows Massad Boulos, senior adviser to the US president for Africa, pictures of starving children in Gaza during their meeting at the presidential palace in Carthage on July 22, 2025. Tunisian Presidency / AFP
Business & Economy

The US returns to North Africa with an eye on Beijing and Moscow

29 August 2025

The US is prioritising trade, investment, and regional stability as it reasserts influence from Morocco to Libya

Mohamed Sharki
France's President Emmanuel Macron (L), Germany’s Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer meet on the sidelines of the two-day NATO Heads of State and Government summit in The Hague on June 24, 2025. Ludovic MARIN / AFP
Politics

European countries trigger the ‘snapback’ of Iran sanctions

29 August 2025

France, Germany, and the UK ran out of patience with Tehran and are bringing back previously halted UN measures

Keith Johnson
People mourn for Palestinian journalists Moaz Abu Taha and Hussam al-Masri, a Reuters contractor, who were killed in an Israeli strike on Nasser hospital in Khan Yunis in Gaza on August 25, 2025, along with 15 others. AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

'Genocide didn't unfold in Gaza; it was the intent all along'

25 August 2025

A new book by Lebanese jurist Mazen Shindab provides an invaluable legal resource on the genocide in Gaza, laying bare the flaws of international law and the moral imperative to hold Israel to account

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Sara Padovan
Politics

Are land grabs becoming the norm in today's world?

25 August 2025

Trump's willingness to cede Ukrainian land to Russia will have global repercussions, but the acceptance of land seizures actually goes back decades, with Israel being a serial offender

Christopher Phillips

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