Keeping America Interested

Turning the arms sales into a talking point erodes Taiwan’s trust in the United States as its protector.

In a globalised economy, the knock-on effect is less of a surge but more of a deluge that reaches East Africa with alarming speed.

It is ... inevitable that the direction the country is going in will have to change.

The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.