For most of this year, Beijing’s economic managers have offered a familiar reassurance: growth is cooling, but it’s cooling in a controlled, deliberate way — the natural byproduct of a planned shift
It arrived in the early hours: a low-altitude drone crossing into Romanian airspace, moving through the sky near Galați. Radar locked on, authorization was given, and a NATO fighter jet — a
For four decades, “the China story” was the only story worth telling about Asian growth. A command economy poured concrete, wired factories, and moved hundreds of millions of people from farms to
In a coordinated effort to de-escalate mounting economic tensions, China and the United States have begun rolling back a series of export restrictions that had threatened to choke off critical supplies to
A newly released CIA review has backed the core conclusion of a 2016 intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election to harm Hillary Clinton and aid Donald Trump. However,
A much-anticipated trade agreement between the United States and India—touted early on as one of former President Donald Trump’s signature achievements in his second White House term—remains elusive, as political sensitivities and
In the hushed buzz of a packed Turkish restaurant on Monday night, two of Labour’s old power brokers — Peter Mandelson and No. 10 Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeney — took centre
What might have passed as a routine NATO summit quickly earned a new name from U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio: “The Trump Summit.” And not without reason. In The Hague this
In the wake of President Trump’s recent decision to launch a full-scale strike against Iran’s nuclear facilities, the geopolitical axis of the Middle East has shifted dramatically—and perhaps irrevocably. Just over a
U.S. President Donald Trump’s unprecedented White House meeting with Pakistan’s Army Chief Asim Munir, bypassing Pakistan’s elected government, has sparked global concern. Such high-level engagement with a military leader, not a civilian
The 2025 G7 summit concluded in the Canadian Rockies under a cloud of fractured consensus and absent leadership, as world leaders failed to issue a unified declaration on the war in Ukraine
In the shadow of Iran’s Alvand Mountain, near the city of Qom, lies a facility that has quietly become the fulcrum of global nuclear anxiety. The Fordow Fuel Enrichment Plant—heavily fortified, deeply
Canada stands to gain significantly from strengthening its partnership with India, now the world’s fourth-largest economy and a major importer of Canadian agricultural products and crude oil. As trade tensions with the