President Macron ends up on a trip to nowhere
His tête-à-tête with Comrade Xi about a Ukraine peace plan has been described as a ‘fool’s errand’
Foreign Policy
Doves, hawks and China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ diplomacy
Beijing’s image as a force for global peace jars with its assertive and abrasive foreign policy
Belt-tightening squeezes China’s global ambitions
Debt is piling up at home and abroad as President Xi’s New Silk Road project hits a potholed-strewn landscape
War-ravished Ukraine trapped in China conundrum
Moscow’s ‘without-limits’ partnership with Beijing illustrates the dilemma facing Kyiv after Russia’s invasion
China-US friction prompts a wave of Seoul searching
President Yoon will integrate economics and security into a new policy, shifting away from strategic ambiguity
What kind of threat do China and Russia pose?
Like Moscow, Beijing ‘does not seek to impose its own model on the world,’ political scientist John Mueller says
Biden warns China that the United States is ‘not for turning’
The US president makes it clear that Beijing’s policy is challenging American ‘security, prosperity and values’
Fact or fiction? China’s hardline ‘Wolf Warrior’ view of the world
Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister Le Yucheng goes through the gambit of international relations