The UK’s seemingly endless supply of fresh fruit and vegetables may be heading for a difficult test. A powerful El Niño climate pattern developing in the tropical Pacific is threatening to disrupt
Trump’s bid to derail BRICS through tariffs is backfiring badly. Instead of pressuring India, China, and Brazil to distance themselves from Russia and crawl back to Washington to “kiss Trump’s ass,” his
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Editor’s Note: This article, by nature of the topic, may include language that is considered sensitive and/or vulgar to some readers. Night after night, the buses pull up on the tarmac outside
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As China prepares to commemorate the 80th anniversary of victory over fascism on September 3, 2025, global attention turns to Beijing’s military parade. Speculation swirls about which world leaders will join President Xi Jinping—Putin’s presence
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Global political history is punctuated by state entities that, after vanishing from the international stage, have reemerged in new forms—sometimes radically transformed, sometimes strikingly faithful to their origins. These revived states—polities that
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On a crisp April morning in Beijing, what should have been a ceremonial display of unity within China’s armed forces turned into a glaring signal of turmoil at the top of the
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India’s Chief of Air Staff A.P. Singh has urged caution over Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ambitious plan to restructure the armed forces into theater commands, warning that such a drastic overhaul may
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In the early 1980s, former US President Jimmy Carter visited Stockholm. At a reception he approached Stig Ramel, the long-serving executive director of the Nobel Foundation, and asked with some bitterness why
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The Trump Administration is moving ahead with plans to sharply increase tariffs on Indian imports, signaling further strain in U.S.-India trade ties as Washington seeks to pressure Russia into ending its war
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Editor’s Note: The following insight was originally published in the Beijing-based monthly, Beijing Review. Can the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) emerge as a pivotal forum to mitigate the escalating fracturing of Eurasian
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At least 76 people, including women and children, have been freed by the Nigerian Air Force (NAF) following a targeted air strike on the hideout of a notorious bandit leader in Katsina
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Europe calls itself the cradle of democracy and freedom. And yet it is also the continent that still preserves monarchies as if they were part of the natural landscape, unquestioned relics of
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The mother of Yevgeny Prigozhin, the late Wagner Group mercenary chief, has said her son appeared “doomed” in the days before his death, following his dramatic but short-lived mutiny against Russia’s military
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India’s ambitious space program, led by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), has garnered immense pride domestically. However, the current state of India’s space achievements paints a much less optimistic picture. Despite
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Weijian Shan’s journey from a teenager exiled to the Gobi Desert during China’s Cultural Revolution to one of Hong Kong’s most prominent financiers is a story of extraordinary contrasts. In an in-depth
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The US government has revived its campaign to label Venezuela a “narco-state”, accusing its top leadership of drug trafficking and slapping hefty bounties on their heads for capture. This campaign, which only
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