China

From Tehran to Beijing, parts of the left have become disturbingly willing to excuse authoritarian power

A thaw between Xi and Trump is worrying residents of the independent island

The current president is clueless on the world stage. But, if the Democrats ever get back into power, they won’t turn the US into an open, internationalist peacebroker. Their focus is their voters – it looks set to stay that way

The region is getting hotter and drier to the point of being uninhabitable. And in the coming decades, as the world moves to renewables and the oil price starts to collapse, what then?

If we look six months into the future, the consequences of this conflict for Iran, the region and for the world all look bad – there is no good outcome from this war

MAGA has made the land of the free more of a global danger than a repressive surveillance state that spies, steals and kills

In a multi-polar world, the big powerful states get to carve up the world as they see fit. In that scenario, it’s countries like mine that will end up on the chopping block

The country is teaching its people a version of the past in which China is always the victim. The consequences of that could be highly dangerous

Just an hour across the water is a city with a completely different history and culture. But how much longer can it last?