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Ferdinand Marcos Jr and Joe Biden are expected to discuss the security situation in the South China SeaThe president of the Philippines is meeting his US counterpart in Washington as the two countries draw closer together against what they say is growi…
Kim Yo-jong’s broadside came after US and South Korea enhance nuclear cooperation and Biden warns Pyongyang an attack would end the regimeThe powerful sister of North Korea’s leader has said her country will stage more displays of military might in res…
Yoon Suk Yeol impresses US president with rendition of 70s hit before being presented with guitar signed by Don McLeanFrom discussing nuclear war to belting out a beloved hit: South Korean president Yoon Suk Yeol’s White House visit ended on a high not…
China’s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respond, and the French president just lobbed a grenade onto the field of international diplomacyIt is perhaps no surprise that Emmanuel Macron is i…
‘Top secret’ document reportedly warned Kyiv faced shortfalls in troops and weaponry and suggested any gains would be modestPentagon leak traced to video game chat about UkraineUS intelligence reportedly warned in February that Ukraine might fail to am…
Governments on both sides of the Atlantic are still failing to take responsibility for abandoning the Afghan people to the TalibanThe fall of Kabul in August 2021 and the accompanying chaotic evacuation of US and UK forces, foreign nationals and limite…
Putin thought he could get away with his invasion. Xi Jinping must be deterred from making a similarly fatal miscalculationIt is generally acknowledged that a Chinese invasion of Taiwan, drawing in the US and possibly Japan, Australia and Britain, coul…
America’s record at keeping global order is deeply flawed, but the only winners from its drift towards isolationism will be Xi Jinping and Vladimir PutinAmerican global leadership took a serious kicking last week. Politicians and pundits on both sides …
Move poses political risk for US president, who has a difficult relationship with his Chinese counterpart Xi JinpingA bill requiring the release of intelligence materials on potential links between the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic and a laboratory…
China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin told reporters that the US, UK and Australia ‘are walking further down the path of error and danger’. The comments were made in a press conference in response to the Aukus partners’ announcement of a mu…
The four-phase plan has made nuclear arms control experts nervous … here’s whyAukus: nuclear submarines deal will cost Australia up to $368bnIn a tripartite deal with the US and the UK, Australia has unveiled a plan to acquire a fleet of up to eight nu…
This blog is now closed.Penny Wong hits back at China’s claim Aukus nuclear submarines will fuel an arms raceGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastDaniel Hurst is out of the Aukus lockup – here is his first take.The m…
Beijing is following Vladimir Putin’s aggressive playbook. The US can counter the march of the autocrats, but only if it stops feeding their paranoiaIs there a school for autocrats? As if by rote, authoritarian leaders around the world trot out remarka…
Marshall Islands, Micronesia and Palau stand to benefit as White House warns of Beijing’s intent and ability to ‘reshape the international order’ Alarmed by China’s success in wooing Pacific island nations, the Biden administration is proposing to spen…
Comments from French president come after Joe Biden said it was ‘not rational’ for Beijing to be negotiating a peace dealAt a glance: what we know on day 367 of the invasionUkraine has issued a postage stamp with a reproduction of a Banksy mural, of a …