Indonesia has rapidly become the world’s largest supplier of nickel after adopting a surprisingly successful mix of industrial and trade policies to expand processing capacity and battery ...

In the PLA context, clientelist and professional relations can be seen in linkages between Xi and members of the so-called “Shaanxi Gang”, including Xi’s connections as a “princeling” to CMC Vice ...

The vessel’s transit south of Australia understandably raised eyebrows. Only a few weeks earlier, China’s navy made a high-profile circumnavigation of the continent in a deliberate demonstration of ...

The media typically only has enough space to focus on one big story at a time. Trump’s tariffs are dominating now. Last week it was “Signal-gate”, after a journalist was added to a White House-led ...

The concerted pushback against Musk and Tesla in America itself, as well as places such as Germany and Canada, which have been the victims of Trump’s erratic policies, has caused a plunge in car sales ...

Like the 1985 Plaza Accord, part of the proposed solution is to force the rest of the world to appreciate their currencies to improve US export competitiveness. You can already see the effort here to ...

China is widely assumed to be the biggest beneficiary, although the full extent of the impact remains unquantified. A back-of-the-envelope calculation, however, offers some insight into the upheaval ...

Formally, the law protects only the king, the queen, the heir apparent and regent from defamation or insults. However, courts have also punished people for comments about other royal family members, ...

The surface vessels are potent. Between them, the Renhai and Jiangkai II possess 152 vertical launch system (VLS) missile cells. Most of the missiles in these cells would be dedicated to hitting enemy ...

However, the idea that young men are simply struggling to adapt to modern times is outdated. They grew up in households where women worked and in societies where gender roles were already shifting.