Last week, a Chinese start-up founded by engineers who have risen on the tide of the country’s maritime ambitions, announced it had sold its cutting-edge deep-sea surveillance robots to an unidentified Middle Eastern nation. Details of the deal were scant, and little was known about the buyer’s intentions, but the implications for China’s rapidly growing…
Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, set European pigeons flying in circles when he suggested last month that given rising mistrust in President Trump’s commitment to NATO, he wanted to talk to France and Britain about extending nuclear deterrence over Germany. Warning that a “profound change of American geopolitics” had put Poland, as well as Ukraine,…
Since taking office, President Trump has threatened European countries’ security and economies, angled to take control of Greenland, and promised to “definitely” slap the nations with tariffs. Even parties that would seem to be his natural allies are nervous. Some have quietly tiptoed back from the American president. But Saturday was not the day for…
At the start of his second term President Trump has positioned himself at the crest of a global wave of hard-line conservative populism, offering fuel and inspiration to surging nationalist parties in the European Union and beyond. Those parties are generally united by tough stances against immigrants, support for what they call “traditional” values in…
On a Wednesday night in October, a group of corporate executives took off their suits and jumped into the water at Repulse Bay on Hong Kong Island to escape their busy schedules. But they lost their sense of direction in the murky water despite being experienced swimmers and having two headlights. “It’s actually pretty scary…