03/06/2020 - 12:10am

Farewell free trade, and good riddance Even before coronavirus, economic nationalism was on the up

David Goodhart

21.02

How Kazakhstan’s multicultural dream turned sour Ethnic tension is flaring up in a nation that paints itself as a haven of stability in a volatile region

Joanna Lillis

11.02

Why we should be worried about coronavirus This crisis probably won't kill us all; but sooner or later a pandemic is bound to wipe out the human race

Peter Franklin

04.02

Have we been played by China? We've got into bed with the emerging global power without a coherent strategy

James Kirkup

03.01

Will China get stuck in the Afghan quagmire? As the US withdraws after two decades of war, how will Beijing protect its interests?

Mike Martin

02.01

Where will Boris Johnson lead us? Come 2029, the former United Kingdom will be consumed by a new dilemma

James Kirkup

27.12

2019: the year the West wised up to China Xi Jinping is not leading the nation on a path of slow evolution towards liberal democracy

John Gray

25.12

2016: the Great Pivot Year Our correspondent imagines what future generations will make of the year western society turned on its axis

David Goodhart

24.12

How Africa is converting China China's mass investment in Africa is having an unintended religious consequence at home

Christopher Rhodes

11.12

How China has enabled the Rohingya atrocity The liberal West is out of tools when it comes to dealing with authoritarian governments

Bill Hayton

04.12

How Global English became a source of division The international language increasingly divides the Somewheres and Anywheres of the world

Ben Sixsmith

07.11

Ban the bomb? The world’s moved on, Mr Gorbachev The former Soviet leader is decades out of date about the real threats to world peace

Mary Dejevsky