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Trump tariffs await their date with destiny

The US president's use of executive power to drive his economic agenda will face the ultimate test at a US Supreme Court hearing set for 5 November

Toufic Chanbour 20 September 2025
Barbara Gibson

China’s Victory Day Parade: symbolic or seismic?

Beijing would like the week to mark a historic turning point in which a unipolar world finally gave way to multipolarity. To others, it was just tub-thumping bravura. In reality, it was a bit of both.

Shirley Ze Yu 05 September 2025
An M23 soldier holds damaged weapons in the Stade de l’Unité (Unity Stadium) in Goma, DRC on May 13, 2025. Jospin Mwisha / AFP

Tariffs and minerals: when trade and resource wars collide

China's iron grip on the rare earths needed in today's most strategic industries is something that US President Donald Trump appears to be focused on, but the fight also involves Europe

Mohamed Sharki 23 August 2025
The 90-day trade truce is seen in Beijing as but a brief pause to recalibrate strategy in a longer-term Cold War-style rivalry. Ewan White

US–China trade truce is a pause for breath in a new Cold War

Donald Trump's tariff blitz was matched by China, so the two quickly agreed a temporary truce in Geneva. Yet the clock is ticking on this pause, which will not be long enough to fix all the issues.

Shirley Ze Yu 06 June 2025
US Secretary of the Treasury Scott Bessent and US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer attend a news conference after trade talks with China in Geneva, Switzerland, 12 May 2025. REUTERS/Olivia Le Poidevin

America has given China a strangely good tariff deal

If only US officials had hit upon the ingenious idea of meeting their Chinese counterparts in person before Liberation Day, much global economic turmoil could have been avoided

The Economist 13 May 2025
Sara Padovan

A new economic order is emerging, and tariffs play no part in it

China has been quietly working to rewrite the rules of global trade and finds itself in a strong position in the current trade war launched by Washington. A look around the world shows why.

Shirley Ze Yu 07 May 2025
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US-China battle for tech dominance heats up

Amidst a larger trade war, the race to establish dominance in the AI industry is in full flow, the winner likely to set the rules of the game. A recent meeting in Beijing is evidence of its importance

Marco Mossad 18 March 2025
US President Donald Trump holds the executive order he signed in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on January 23, 2025. ROBERTO SCHMIDT / AFP

Trump’s tariffs run the risk of tit-for-tat moves on a global scale

How much of the US president's rhetoric on trade translates into actual action will soon become clear, but there are risks to his tactics at home as well as worldwide

Nazareth Seferian 31 January 2025
Businessman Walter London reveals a T-shirt with US President-elect Donald Trump on it, at the headquarters of the New York Stock Exchange after he was announced the winner of the election on November 6, 2024. AFP

The world braces for Trump's America First economic promises

Plans for trade tariffs, deregulation, and mass deportations will have huge repercussions on industries like finance, oil, and manufacturing. Meanwhile, the deficit is set to balloon.

Abdulfattah Khattab 17 November 2024

The World Trade Organization, in Ruling for China, Bares its Toothless Gums

A World Trade Organization panel ruled Tuesday the Trump administration violated international trade rules by trying to stop China's blatant violations of international trade rules. The ruling…

Jon Healey 18 September 2020
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From siege to slaughter: the fall of el-Fasher

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Governor of the Public Investment Fund of Saudi Arabia, Yasir Al-Rumayyan, delivers his speech at the opening of the ninth edition of the Future Investment Initiative (FII), in Riyadh, 28 October 2025. Reuters
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Investing in people and AI: Saudi Arabia’s vision for a new Middle East

29 October 2025

Now in its ninth edition, Riyadh's Future Investment Initiative has transformed from an investment forum into a geo-economic platform redefining how nations link peace, progress, and technology

Omar Harkous
Activists hold a demonstration in lower Manhattan against the arrest by ICE of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at Columbia University, on 20 March 2025 in New York City. SPENCER PLATT / AFP
Politics

The Gaza war has damaged the West

01 November 2025

The West's response to Israel's war on Gaza exposed its weakness and damaged its collective reputation, while also eroding civil liberties at home

Christopher Phillips
A visitor walks near a bust of the ancient Egyptian King Akhenaten while touring the Grand Egyptian Museum, in Giza on the southwestern outskirts of the capital Cairo on 7 February 2025. Khaled DESOUKI / AFP
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The Grand Egyptian Museum: ancient answers to contemporary questions

30 October 2025

As the Grand Egyptian Museum officially opens its doors, it ushers in a new era for archaeology and modern scientific discovery

Ibrahim Tutunji

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