China
Donald Trump returned from Beijing with talk of deals, aircraft and cooperation. But Xi Jinping used the visit to frame a new reality: U.S.-China relations are now about managed rivalry, strategic stability and hard…
Diplomacy
The Islamabad talks failed not because diplomacy was impossible, but because Tehran saw the United States as a…
Diplomacy
From the 1953 coup to the destruction of the nuclear deal, from sanctions and assassination to the killing…
Diplomacy
Pakistan’s prime minister said the new two week U.S. Iran ceasefire covered Lebanon, and Reuters reported that Iran…
Diplomacy
Defence
Diplomacy
Defence
Defence
The Middle East security architecture does not exist in any meaningful sense. Fragmented regional actors, weak institutions, and rival alignments leave Iran negotiating deterrence…
Diplomacy
Kemi Badenoch’s attack on Keir Starmer’s China visit rests on a deeper assumption rarely examined in British politics: that Britain…
Diplomacy
American protection is no longer automatic. Europe is exposed, China is unavoidable but risky, and Britain is rebuilding optionality. Keir…
Diplomacy
Canada’s sudden pivot toward China is not a diplomatic awakening but a reckoning. After years of enforcing American power from extraditions to trade policy Ottawa discovered that loyalty did not guarantee protection. The detention…
Defence
The United States is not short of power. It is short of closure. From Iran to Venezuela, Greenland…
Law
This article is a legal analysis. It is written from a legal perspective and proceeds deliberately, without media…
Britain
The proposed Chinese embassy at Royal Mint Court has become a proxy battlefield for Britain’s unresolved China policy.…
Diplomacy
Europe keeps invoking international law while lacking the power to enforce it. This article sets out the internal structures Europe must dismantle if rules…
Law
World
Diplomacy
USA
Diplomacy
JOHANNESBURG — South Africa has asked China to postpone joint naval exercises with Russia until after November’s Group of 20…
Europe
How sabotage, austerity and Trump’s shadow left the continent exposed By Jaffa Levy Europe has slipped into a brittle bargain.…
Diplomacy
By Jaffa Donald Trump boarded Air Force One bound for Alaska repeating the same line he had clung to for weeks: Russia must accept a ceasefire or face consequences. Two hours before…