The troubled history of US-China relations

On Tuesday, the US Senate voted with “rare” bipartisan support to end the national emergency underpinning Donald Trump’s tariffs on Brazil, says Lauren Gambino in The Guardian. Although it is all but

Qatar’s lobbying blitz in Washington has seen its influence grow over U.S. lawmakers, raising questions about power, politics and global alignment

The soundtrack to Japanese politics was once “quiet, calm, ambient”, says The Economist. No longer. New prime minister Sanae Takaichi, a one-time heavy-metal drummer, is setting a new beat that is “br

When General Francisco Franco died on 20 November 1975 – 39 years after the start of the brutal civil war that brought him to power – the prospect of a bloodless transition to democracy in Spain appea

During a highly charged presidential campaign, a bomb explodes, unleashing panic and a wave of recriminations. Then a Chinese Y-8 reconnaissance aircraft vanishes in Taiwan’s eastern waters. Under the