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The Artemis Accords at five

This fall marked five years since eight countries, including the United States, announced that they were signing the new...

Russia-China ties crucial for global stability: Putin at annual conference

Chinese FM strongly condemns $11b US arms sales to Taiwan; DPP authorities 'thanking' Washington slammed by island netizens

LongNosedGoblin tries to sniff out governmental affairs in Southeast Asia and Japan

ESET researchers discovered a China-aligned APT group, LongNosedGoblin, which uses Group Policy to deploy cyberespionage...

Risky Business #819 -- Venezuela (credibly?!) blames USA for wiper attack

In the final show of 2025, Patrick Gray and Adam Boileau discuss the week’s cybersecurity news, including: React2Shell a...

How to survive abandonment by America

Allies are planning for a lonelier, harsher world: a report from South Korea

Inside the fight for MAGA’s foreign policy

Donald Trump’s court squabbles over the future of American power

What’s worse for innovation: MAGA or Mao?

Donald Trump and Xi Jinping share a dangerous nostalgia

In defense of Mark Kelly

Mark Kelly, a former astronaut who is now a US senator, has been the target of a potential court martial over comments h...

The American fixation on white Afrikaners in South Africa stretches back nearly a century

Political scientist Carolyn Holmes speaks to The Conversation Weekly podcast about the history of American interest in S...

Chinese Embassy in UK urges London to recognize reality, adopt correct mindset following Starmer's China-related remarks

China, Russia conduct strategic alignment on issues related to Japan

Trumpworld thinks Europe has betrayed the West

Centrist governments across the continent rightly sense a trap

MuddyWater: Snakes by the riverbank

MuddyWater targets critical infrastructure in Israel and Egypt, relying on custom malware, improved tactics, and a predi...

2025 Understanding China Conference opens in Guangzhou, spotlighting 15th Five-Year Plan and China's global initiatives

Civic groups in Taiwan protest Lai's arms push, oppose being dragged toward battlefield

The wrong sort of peace leads to the next war

Donald Trump’s approach to peacemaking ignores crucial lessons from history

John Bolton thinks America is past “peak Trump”

Donald Trump’s former national security adviser speaks to The Economist

Revisiting the Wolf Amendment after 15 years

It's been nearly 15 years since Congress passed legislation with a provision sharply restricting bilateral cooperation b...

COP30 ends with a whimper

The climate conference acknowledged that more climate action is needed, then failed to provide it

Chinese premier arrives in Johannesburg for 1st G20 summit in Africa

Erik Prince, America’s most notorious mercenary, spies opportunity in chaos

The return of the Blackwater founder is a sign of the times

How Chinese underground banks became the world’s biggest money-launderers

They connect rich Chinese, drug cartels and North Korean hackers—without anyone meeting

GT investigates: From political opportunist to militarist advocate: An expose of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's radical path

GT investigates: How Japan's PM revives bellicism mindset, perpetuates 'victim narrative' pushed by right-wing forces since WWI

The loneliness of America’s model ally

Donald Trump has no desire to play global cop. That is tough on Denmark, a loyal sheriff’s deputy

China’s creepiest export surge

Countries are queuing to buy the tools and techniques of the CCP’s security state

Beijing insiders’ plan to play Donald Trump

They see America’s president as a golden opportunity for China

China places a Hong Kong-sized bet on Western decline

The territory aims to prove that a non-free society can be a global financial hub

What will it cost to make Vladimir Putin stop?

Europe must offer Ukraine a big enough financial package to deter the Kremlin

Donald Trump’s trade power is vast, but self-defeating

The view from Canada, as Trumpian threats fly

China is backing Russia’s war to keep America distracted, says Kaja Kallas

China’s rulers want to show it is in their people’s interests to keep America focused on Europe, according to the EU’s f...

Brussels feels like a city preparing for war

Europe readies itself to survive in a world of hostile strongmen

The War Room newsletter: Three lessons from a spy scandal

Shashank Joshi, our defence editor, looks at an espionage fiasco in Britain

The icy cold war America is busy losing

Its weakest flank isn’t Greenland, but around Alaska

China tries shock-and-awe on Donald Trump

Xi Jinping’s bet that dramatic escalation is the way to win a trade war

The Economist today newsletter: What happens when migrants stop coming?

We are witnessing a turning point in migration, writes Adam Roberts, our digital editor

Can the West survive an age of brinkmanship?

It is time to relearn the cold-war arts of escalation management

The flashing red threat from Russia’s dark fleet

NATO navies struggle to contain a new danger on the seas

Europe’s astonishing drop in illegal migration

Europe’s big, invisible wall is slowing boat crossings by migrants