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America’s founders nearly made the office more exalted still. John Adams, the first vice-president, thought the president ...

Country Garden, once China’s biggest developer, followed suit in 2023. Yet Vanke is different. Metro, a state-owned firm, ...

The resulting firestorm has highlighted the growing dissatisfaction among China’s young white-collar workers with the ...

THE Themes used by the speaker were the usual Hindu-nationalist fare. The opposition Congress Party was planning to take away ...

BRITAIN’S GOVERNMENT slaloms between celebrating the international students who prop up its universities and trying to stop ...

A Chinese takeover of Kinmen might not take much longer, such is the disparity in power. The boat’s owner is not keen on mainlanders fishing and dredging sand in Taiwan’s waters. But, having witnessed ...

NOVELISTS HAVE long imagined, and warned of, the threat to liberal places from totalitarian rule. British writers of the 20th century, including George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and Robert Harris, won ...

There was less drama around the Israeli campaign in Zeitoun, in northern Gaza, which began days after the fighting in Rafah. Instead there was a sense of déjà vu. Israel’s army fought there last year, ...

The men were charged under the National Security Act, a law passed in July 2023 in part to give British police the powers to investigate and tackle China’s covert activity. (China denies that Hong ...

These guileful gulpers have responded to price increases by cutting spending more than the card-carrying Starbucks members who account for the majority of orders during the morning rush (there are 33m ...

So it is deeply regrettable that President Joe Biden has decided to impose tariffs of 100% on electric vehicles (EVs) made in ...