Xie Zhenhua: can China’s climate envoy make a difference at Cop26?
The highly regarded veteran of China’s climate team embodies an important and rare openness to the world.
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Fiona Hill: “US democracy is on a precipice right now”
The woman who made international headlines with her testimony on Trump talks Russia, conspiracy theories, sexism and Joe Biden.
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Afghanistan shows the American dream of remaking the world is over
If the US’s occupation of Afghanistan was a failed exercise in nation-building, its withdrawal could mark a long overdue shift…
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Bernard-Henri Lévy: “Defining oneself by an identity is an impoverishment of what you are”
The French intellectual on culture wars and global crises.
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Can G20 leaders keep their promise to prevent economic collapse in Afghanistan?
Saving the country from economic ruin will be difficult without normalising the Taliban's hold on power.
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Fighter jets and street markets: Taiwan’s daily dissonance as tensions with China ramp up
Invasion by China remains an abstract threat, but it is hard to shake the anxiety that the worst could happen.
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Massacred by Islamic State, Yazidis now face Turkish airstrikes
Data analysis shows that civilians are often the victims.
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As China stumbles, the West must ask: what if its rise is not inevitable?
As Beijing reckons with corporate excess, power cuts and a rapidly ageing population, the image of an ever-mightier China is…
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