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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
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Will it be Ukraine today, Taiwan tomorrow?
How Donald Trump’s about-turn in Europe will affect Asia
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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
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China’s stunning new campaign to turn the world against Taiwan
Seventy countries have recently backed “all Chinese efforts” to take the island
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Xi Jinping swings his “assassin’s mace” of economic warfare
China is weaponising its supply chains, but risks blowback if it goes too far
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Allies will not appease Donald Trump for ever
If Trump convinces partners that the post-1945 order really is dead, things will get ugly
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As adoptions collapse, demand for international surrogacy is soaring
Yet it is facing a growing backlash from religious conservatives and some feminists
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A big, beautiful Trump deal with China?
Washington hawks puzzle over calls for China to help in Ukraine, and hints of a possible TikTok reprieve
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Why don’t more countries import their electricity?
The economics make sense, but the geopolitics are nerve-racking
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Trump unmasks American selfishness, say cynics
But sceptics are wrong to call America First business as usual
Inside the Houthis’ moneymaking machine
After a ceasefire in Gaza, they may continue their Red Sea racket
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Marco Rubio will find China is hard to beat in Latin America
China buys lithium, copper and bull semen, and doesn’t export its ideology
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Donald Trump has a strong foreign-policy hand, but could blow it
Bullying foreigners can be sadly effective, but also a dangerous distraction
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Women warriors and the war on woke
Trump’s Pentagon pick wants women off the battlefield
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Why people over the age of 55 are the new problem generation
Baby-boomers are keeping their bad habits into retirement
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Young people are having less fun
Youthful excess continues to decline
The A to Z of international relations
Geopolitics terms, from “Abraham accords” to “zero-sum game”, explained in plain English
The A to Z of military terms
Modern warfare, from “ambush” to “zapad”, explained to you in plain English
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Why warriors should welcome laws of war
Lessons from a 17th-century thinker on preventing crimes against humanity
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Is the age of American air superiority coming to an end?
The growing effectiveness of air-defence systems could blunt the West’s most powerful weapons