Will China stop Russia going nuclear?
When Chinese diplomats say they want the war to end, they undoubtedly mean it – but not at any cost.
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We started the Kyiv Independent as the horror of war loomed – and now Biden and Zelensky walk through the…
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Letter of the week: Our duty to Afghanistan
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine.
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How Putin lost the energy war
European gaspolitik has defeated Russia this winter.
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Why Europeans should not get too used to Joe Biden, the last of the Atlanticists
After the traumas of the Trump presidency, Europe is mistaking his successor’s leadership for the new normal.
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The West is betraying Armenia
A humanitarian catastrophe will result unless the US and EU change course.
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Asia’s dangerous new arms race
Russia’s war and China’s military build-up are provoking an unprecedented change in Japan’s approach to its defence.
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The war in Ukraine will go on for years – and so will its consequences for Britain
We need to change our thinking: this may become an unresolved global conflict of a kind we haven’t seen before.
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