カテゴリー: US politics
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From India to Venezuela and Senegal to the US, democracy was tested, as more people voted than in any year beforeIn January, as this bumper year of elections got under way, breathless editorials and reheated hot takes made it clear the stakes could not…
Japan’s complex defence alliances built up over years as protection against China could be put at risk in a Trump-launched trade warArguably, no country in Asia has better reason to be in a state of anxiety over the return of Donald Trump to the White …
Hugo Wong says the question today should be how much value the free movement of products and people has brought to our nationsReading “made in China” on his toys for the first time, my young Chinese nephew asked me innocently whether Santa was Chinese….
Xi is expected to rebuff the offer, as attending the event might put the Chinese president in a subservient positionDonald Trump has invited China’s hardline president, Xi Jinping, to his inauguration next month in an audacious diplomatic gambit that B…
With $500bn worth of trade in the crosshairs of Donald Trump’s tariffs, Xi Jinping is preparing for four more years of unpredictabilityChina is bracing itself for four years of volatile relations with its biggest trading partner and geopolitical rival,…
Billboards with Harris’s face wishing her good luck erected across sleepy village and daily prayers held at local templeKamala Harris may never have visited Thulasendrapuram, a sleepy village in south India, but its residents claim to be some of her mo…
Fumio Kishida warns of risks from China in address to Congress and says Japan determined to do more to share responsibilityJapan’s prime minister, Fumio Kishida, on Thursday called on Americans to overcome their “self-doubt” as he offered a paean to US…
The Internationalists details how the president was determined to leave a country in which 2,324 US troops were killed since 2001Joe Biden is “privately defiant” that he made the right calls on the US withdrawal from Afghanistan in summer 2021, a new b…
In 1971 he advised Nixon to side with Pakistan’s military dictator in his war with Bangladesh, then East Pakistan, writes Robert EvansJonathan Steele’s obituary of Henry Kissinger (29 November) omits reference to his part in what the author G…
Announcement fuels hope rivals can use Apec summit as a chance to reduce tensionsChina and the US have pledged to work together more closely to fight global heating, declaring the climate crisis “one of the greatest challenges of our time”, hours befor…
Getting approval for nuclear submarine plan through legislature a question of ‘not if, but when’Joe Biden has played down congressional jitters over the Aukus nuclear-powered submarine deal and has revealed he assured Xi Jinping that the countries invo…
New report airs arguments for and against nuclear-powered submarine sale to Australia Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDoubts about Australia’s willingness to…
‘Candid, substantive and constructive’ talks were held as a possible prelude to a Joe Biden-Xi Jinping meeting in NovemberTop US and Chinese diplomats met in Malta over the weekend as the world’s two largest economies attempted to smooth strained relat…