Taiwan: the world’s tinderbox

Oil shock averted? World leaders and commodity traders have spent the past fortnight on edge as the long-running Iran-Israel conflict turned hot. Matters came to a head at the weekend when the US dire

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When the president of the US is a former television show host, it’s no wonder that world politics resembles a bad am-dram production with a furious director. “I’m not happy with Israel… I’m not happy

In this first of a two-part series, read how when faced with total defeat, China’s Nationalists held on to a small island off the Fujian coast and defended it at all costs

Renowned historian challenges comparisons between the Cold War and the modern world, where the stakes, players and rules of engagement are multidimensional

IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re