FOR XI JINPING, a leader who aspires to place China at the centre of world affairs, it was a triumphant week of diplomacy. Just four days after Donald Trump concluded a visit to Beijing, looking for business deals and help with Iran, Vladimir...
RICHARD NIXON’S surprise trip to China to meet Mao Zedong in 1972 came to be known in Japan as a “Nixon shock”. Donald Trump’s choreographed meeting with Xi Jinping was not quite as shocking. But his recalibration of America’s relationship...
SOLDIERS OF the “Black Jack” brigade ritually furled and packed their unit’s colours in Fort Hood, Texas in early May, as the tank unit’s 4,000 troops prepared to deploy to Poland to help defend NATO against the Russian threat. “When an armoured...
“SINCE APRIL, we’ve seen people dying,” says Sylvie Kabuo-Kinyoma, who sells vegetables in Mongbwalu, a gold-mining town in Ituri, a province in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. At first she blamed the deaths on witchcraft. But then a...
