EUROPE SEEMS to be caught in a pincer. On one side, Donald Trump is ramping up America’s effort to gain sovereignty over Greenland, a Danish territory. “Nobody is going to fight the US militarily over the future of Greenland,” boasted Stephen Miller, the White House’s deputy chief of staff, on January 5th. On the other…
It has been a turbulent year for the fraught US-China relationship. In the fourth part of a series looking back at the events of 2025, we examine the impacts of Trump’s foreign policy on global geopolitics. As the administration of US President Donald Trump ends its first year, expect the unabashed disrupter to continue applying…
China’s leaders increasingly see the path to strategic advantage running through economic power, not just military might. From shipyards to semiconductors, and robotics to unmanned systems, Beijing is mobilizing its entire economy to win what one expert calls a contest for “economic victory” that lets it rewrite rules and norms in its favor across the…
United States President Donald Trump said on Thursday (local time) that the ongoing war in Ukraine risks escalating into a ‘world war’ with as many as 25,000 people, both soldiers and civilians, dying last month and that he would like to “see the killing stop”. Donald Trump also said that the United States is not…
The US defence chief touted a message of peace, communication and “flexible realism” with China in a speech over the weekend, foreshadowing an American national defence strategy that is expected to be released soon. In his keynote address at the annual Reagan National Defence Forum on Saturday, US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said Washington was…
China’s “mega embassy” planned for London could act as Beijing’s “interference hub” for the whole of Europe, a group opposing the plan has told Newsweek. The proposed mission would consolidate seven Chinese diplomatic sites around London, and while the embassy has faced delays and not yet been approved, it could get the green light in January, it has been reported The Inter Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC) executive director, Luke de Pulford, told Newsweek on Thursday that the site “poses unacceptable risks” regarding security and espionage. …
NATO air planners looking east during the Cold War faced a vast, intimidating armada of bombers and attack aircraft. With superior numbers, the Soviet Union and the other Warsaw Pact nations brandished a massive hammer of both nuclear and ‘conventional’ destructive force. Here are 12 Soviet combat aircraft that kept NATO awake at night: 12:…
A former French diplomat has urged Europe and China to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, describing the issue as “the major challenge” facing the two sides. “The Ukraine war is fracturing the dialogue between two parts of the world,” Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, France’s ambassador to China between 2014 and 2017, said in an interview. “It shouldn’t…
A man from southern China who donated 140 yuan (US$20) as a child to help build an aircraft carrier has seen his dream of the country becoming a stronger nation come true. To top his wish, in November, the China State Shipbuilding Corporation invited him to visit the carrier fleet and gave him a commemorative…
MOSCOW, Nov 14 (Reuters) – Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday that it had thwarted a Ukrainian plot to assassinate an unnamed top Russian government official and accused Kyiv of planning similar attacks in other parts of the country. The FSB said in a statement that the Ukrainian plot had aimed to kill the…