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The American way

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An illustration of an orange hand, with a white shirt and black jacket sleeve showing, picking up a US flag-patterned king chess piece on a chess board. Behind are two more kings, one with the Russian flag colours and one with the Chinese flag.

America’s self-isolating president

No, Donald Trump’s Putin-wooing is not like Nixon going to China

British soldiers storm enemy poitions in a simulated attack during NATO military exercises

Can Europe confront Vladimir Putin’s Russia on its own?

An independent army, air force and nuclear bomb would come at a high price


An illustration of a kangaroo straffling a Chinese cargo ship on the right and an American submarine on the left and being forced in to splits.

Australia prepares for a lonelier, harsher world

The country has long relied on America for security and China for its prosperity. Those two pillars are wobbling


Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?

How Donald Trump’s about-turn in Europe will affect Asia

Donald Trump is junking the transatlantic alliance

Europe has been left scrambling after an attack on the partnership that kept the peace for nearly 80 years

China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan 

Seventy countries have recently backed “all Chinese efforts” to take the island