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  Although diplomacy has long been at the forefront of Sino-American engagement, the rise of politically constrained coupled with new strains of nationalism in the US and China, has rendered it ineffective COMMENT | STEPHEN S. ROACH | With the United States in the hands of an unstable president, diplomacy …

US President Donald Trump has made good on his threat to take military action against Nigeria to save Christians from a “genocide.” COMMENT |  ADEKYE ADEBAJO | On the eve of America’s imperial invasion of the Philippines in 1899, the British poet and defender of empire Rudyard Kipling urged the United States …

Critics have compared the offensive against Venezuela to the Iraq war, citing a familiar mix of regime-change rhetoric and security pretexts, whose fundamental aim is to serve Washington’s oil interests. BEIJING | Xinhua | Since late August, the United States has ramped up military presence in the Caribbean off Venezuela’s …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky “doesn’t have anything until I approve it,” U.S. President Donald Trump said in an exclusive interview with Politico on Friday, two days ahead of his meeting with Zelensky in Florida over a peace plan to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict lasting nearly four …

  COMMENT | MICHAEL BURLEIGH | Until a few days ago, it had never crossed my mind that people across Europe – including Londoners like me – were living in a strife-afflicted hell hole, “suffocated” by regulations, stripped of political liberties, and bound for “civilizational erasure.” So, it was with …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump announced Monday that the U.S. Navy will build two new “Trump-class” warships, which he has claimed will be “the fastest, the biggest, and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built.” At a press conference along with Defense Secretary …

OSLO | Xinhua |  Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday that he would summon U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Kenneth Howery for talks following U.S. President Donald Trump’s appointment of a special envoy to Greenland. On Sunday, Trump appointed Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry as the U.S. special envoy …

    How the US president is breathing fresh air into international affairs that had been poisoned by too much moralism THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA |  For the first time in my adult life, I have read a United States National Security Strategy that speaks sense. What President …

WASHINGTON | Xinhua |  U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed a proclamation expanding the list of countries subject to full or partial entry restrictions to cover around 40 countries, effective on Jan. 1, 2026. Trump “signed a Proclamation expanding and strengthening entry restrictions on nationals from countries with demonstrated, …

BRUSSELS | Xinhua | European politicians and analysts are accusing Washington of waging a “political war” on Brussels after U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration unveiled a new national security strategy, pledging support for “patriotic European parties” and aiming to “cultivate resistance” to the continent’s current direction. The 33-page document, traditionally …