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Look to Myanmar for a vision of a world where authoritarians have unfettered power | Simon Tisdall
The brutality and repression there highlight the failings of a dysfunctional world order. Unless we do better,…
- Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Haiti, Iran, Mexico, Myanmar, Pakistan, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, US news, World news, Yemen
The world at war: the flashpoints that the west ignores
While all eyes are on the Middle East and Ukraine, brutality still reigns in many other regions suffering many…
- Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), China, Global development, Myanmar, South and Central Asia, United Nations, World news
China’s deadly divide-and-rule tactics in Myanmar risk shock waves across region | Simon Tisdall
Far from acting as a broker, Beijing is playing both sides in a state torn by brutality and chaosThings fall a…
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A nagging doubt plagues world leaders wooing India: whose side is Narendra Modi really on? | Simon Tisdall
His cult-like status is likely to hand him victory in the coming elections, but to democracy’s costSuddenly, e…
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Democracy’s Super Bowl: 40 elections that will shape global politics in 2024
From Russia to South Africa, India to the US, the coming year’s contests could embolden dictators or revitalis…
- Asia Pacific, China, Human rights, Joe Biden, Russia, Surveillance, Vladimir Putin, World news, Xi Jinping
Putin and Xi are the Laurel and Hardy of statesmen – but it’s no laughing matter | Simon Tisdall
China’s paramount leader, like his Russian counterpart, is making a fine mess of his country’s economy and wor…
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The Myanmar junta kills … and the rest of the world looks away
Since the coup in 2021 the carnage has been unceasing, meanwhile Russia and China continue to send weaponsIn t…
- Asia Pacific, China, Emmanuel Macron, Europe, European Union, Joe Biden, Politics, Rishi Sunak, UK news, Ursula von der Leyen, US news, Vladimir Putin, World news, Xi Jinping
When Macron met Xi: welcome to the new world disorder
China’s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respon…
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War in Taiwan will dwarf Ukraine unless the US shows China its teeth | Simon Tisdall
Putin thought he could get away with his invasion. Xi Jinping must be deterred from making a similarly fatal m…
- China, Democrats, Donald Trump, Europe, Joe Biden, Republicans, Russia, Ukraine, US news, Vladimir Putin, World news, Xi Jinping
The world still needs a policeman. Let’s hope the US doesn’t quit the job | Simon Tisdall
America’s record at keeping global order is deeply flawed, but the only winners from its drift towards isolati…
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How to break the Xi-Putin axis? Biden must engage with Beijing
Beijing is following Vladimir Putin’s aggressive playbook. The US can counter the march of the autocrats, but …
- Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Asia Pacific, Aung San Suu Kyi, China, Foreign policy, Myanmar, South and Central Asia, World news
Global action is needed to topple Myanmar’s criminal junta boss
From brutal murders and military parades to jailed opponents, Min Aung Hlaing is true to the tyrant’s playbook…
- China, Europe, European Union, Joe Biden, Kyiv, Nato, Nuclear weapons, Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, US news, Vladimir Putin, World news, Xi Jinping
What happens if Putin goes nuclear in Ukraine? Biden has a choice to make
Russian forces are in retreat yet Nato still holds back for fear of what a humiliated Kremlin might do. But no…
- China, Europe, Joe Biden, Russia, Ukraine, US foreign policy, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, World news, Xi Jinping
How Ukraine has become the crucible of the new world order
From Russia’s threat of nuclear weapons to the patriotic courage of Volodymyr Zelenskiy, an A to Z of how the …
- Boris Johnson, China, Liz Truss, Nato, Russia, Taiwan, Ukraine, US news, Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, World news, Xi Jinping
Biden rattles his sabre at Putin … but it’s Xi he really wants to scare
Tub-thumping talk of all-out war in Ukraine seems overblown but the White House knows the fledgling Sino-Russi…