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Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China Axel Rangel Garcia
Politics

Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

Xiaotong Yang 05 May 2026
Global power projection: US vs China
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Global power projection: US vs China

Fares Garabet 04 May 2026
BYD electric cars waiting to be loaded onto a ship are seen stacked at the international container terminal of Taicang Port in Suzhou, in China’s eastern Jiangsu province on February 8, 2024 AFP

China seeking EV opportunities in Middle East and North Africa

The MENA region looks increasingly appealing to China as a tariff-free trade route into the European Union

Sharif Mohammad 05 August 2024
An employee works on a production line at a car wheel rim factory in Qingzhou, in eastern China's Shandong province on June 17, 2024. AFP

Xi Jinping really is unshakeably committed to the private sector

He balances that with being unshakeably committed to state-owned enterprises, too

The Economist 30 July 2024
Indiaís Prime Minister Narendra Modi (C) flashes victory sign as he arrives at the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headquarters to celebrate the partyís win in country's general election, in New Delhi on June 4, 2024 AFP

India's electoral politics and religious hatred

A series of violent and even fatal attacks on Muslims hit BJP-controlled areas amid concern the party is doubling down on its divisive Hindu nationalism after the setback in the national vote in June

Shakir Husain 28 July 2024
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How Lebanon’s banks can get money back to depositors

One of the biggest names in the stricken financial sector calls for 'hope' amid the crisis that has reduced millions to poverty and ruined the country's reputation. There is now a detailed plan.

Salwa Baalbaki 20 July 2024
Nash Weerasekera

China-Israel relations were waning long before Gaza war

Wider geopolitical shifts are behind a decline in trade and investment, and Tel Aviv's ties with Beijing will always come second to Washington

Shirley Ze Yu 14 July 2024
China's President Xi Jinping arrives for the opening ceremony of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on 4 March 2024. Greg Baker/AFP

Why is Xi not fixing China's economy?

Explanations from insiders range from ignorance to ideology

Scott Kennedy 19 June 2024
Taiwan's armed forces conduct a two-day routine drill to demonstrate combat readiness on 11 January 2023. Getty Images

Taiwan trap: Will China and the US still go to war over the island?

Beijing reacted with war exercises to Taiwan's new pro-independence president. China is adamant that Taiwan must be reunified, Washington is adamant that it is independent. Is this the next war?

Mohammed AlSadiq 18 June 2024
Hindutva has come to mean the belief in Hindu supremacy and the extremism, anti-egalitarianism, ultra-nationalism, and authoritarianism that accompany it. Eduardo Ramon_Getty Images

Understanding Hindutva ideology: Origins and future

A look at a powerful ideology born from historical grudges against Muslims and how its ascension under Prime Minister Narendra Modi has jeopardised India's secular democracy

Shakir Husain 08 June 2024
The assembly line in a factory making supersonic defect detectors and diagnostic devices in Shantou (Swatow), China. Bettman Archive/Getty

How ‘Made in China’ became American gospel

The canny marketing of imports from vodka to basketballs transformed the US-China trade relationship

Elizabeth O’Brien Ingleson 05 June 2024
Gurjeet Singh Aujla (C), an election candidate of the Indian National Congress (INC) party alongside supporters, celebrates after taking the lead in vote count figures for India's general election in Amritsar on June 4, 2024. Narinder NANU / AFP

Indian voters shatter BJP's dream of domination

The BJP's poorer-than-expected performance gives its potential coalition partners more leeway as Modi awaits an invitation from India's president to form a new government

Shakir Husain 05 June 2024
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Axel Rangel Garcia
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Why a cornered Iran is also a problem for China

02 May 2026

Even when appeals to open the Hormuz Strait come from a close ally like Beijing, they fall on deaf ears in Tehran. But hope is not yet lost.

Xiaotong Yang
Sara Padovan
Business & Economy

Global airfares soar amid ongoing US-Iran turmoil

04 May 2026

Airspace closures, rising fuel costs, shifting flight maps and delayed aircraft deliveries have repriced flights around the world, with some travel routes hit worse than others

Abdel-Rahman Ayas
A man holds a flag featuring the late leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late Supreme Leader of Iran Ali Khamenei and the new leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, at a rally in Tehran on 29 April 2026. Majid Asgaripour / Reuters
Politics

Real Iran splits and the myth of division

04 May 2026

The argument is over the price and presentation, not the basic instinct to preserve the system

Alex Vatanka
A Lebanese guard stands in front of  Magen Abraham, the last Jewish synagogue in Lebanon at Wadi Abou Jmil, Beirut's former Jewish neighbourhood, in the war-devastated city centre. JOSEPH BARRAK / AFP
Culture & Social Affairs

New book recalls Beirut’s once-vibrant Jewish quarter

01 May 2026

Veteran Lebanese journalist Nada Abdelsamad transports readers back to the time when Beirut's Jewish quarter, known at the time as Wadi al-Yahud, was thriving

Abdul Rahman Mazhar Halloush
Turkish fighter jets fly over a warship in Kyrenia, in the self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. AFP
Politics

How the Iran war changed Türkiye’s security calculus

05 May 2026

Ankara's national security priority is no longer Kurds or Gülenists, but Israel. Likewise, in Tel Aviv, Türkiye is increasingly seen as a future Israeli adversary. Both are preparing accordingly

Rustum Mahmud

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