Leader: The long shadow of 9/11
After 20 years of failed interventionism and a humiliation in Afghanistan, Joe Biden's US may have found a role better…
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Why Joe Biden got everything wrong in Afghanistan
The Biden administration’s view of the world as a diplomatic conversation was disconnected from reality.
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Yalda Hakim’s Kabul notebook: Two faces of the Taliban, a violent new chapter, and why the Afghan War is not over
With Isis putting the lie to assertions that the terrorist threat has been dealt with, the West may soon discover…
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The US military arsenal now available to the Taliban
The Taliban may now be the only militant group in the world in possession of an air force.
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One year on from China’s national security crackdown, Hong Kong is a changed place
The legislation has amounted to a full-spectrum assault by China on the city’s vibrant civil society.
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Can the West exert any influence over the Taliban?
Foreign aid, without which Afghanistan’s economy could collapse, gives the outside world some leverage.
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How should American credibility be judged after Afghanistan?
If US credibility can only be shown through militarily occupying another country, then perhaps it wasn’t worth much to begin…
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Can authoritarianism ever be justified?
China may have performed better than many democratic countries on Covid-19, but good government can’t be sustained without public scrutiny.
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