- Japan, Xi Jinping, US foreign policy, US news, World news, Asia Pacific, China, Taiwan, Donald Trump
China is bearing down on Taiwan – enabled by Trump’s weakness and vacillation | Simon Tisdall
The US hasn’t just left Ukraine vulnerable; it is also provoking Xi’s intensifying attitude towards what he co…
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Xi’s ‘gunboat diplomacy’ risks driving his bullied neighbours into enemy hands | Simon Tisdall
Chinese aggression in the South China Sea forcing countries such as Japan to increase defences and talk up an …
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Liz Truss’s delusional speech about China is digging the trenches of a second cold war | Simon Tisdall
Does she really think Xi’s threats to Taiwan will be stopped by the sabre-rattling of the failed PM of a forme…
- Japan, Angela Merkel, Jordan, Thailand, Bashar al-Assad, Syria, Kim Jong-il, Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, Saudi Arabia, Xi Jinping, King Salman, North Korea, China, Russia, Succession, Mohammed bin Salman, King Abdullah
From Roys to royals, succession battles are raging the world over
For edge-of-the-seat drama, the TV dynasty can’t match the power struggles of leading families in Japan, Saudi…
- Japan, Joe Biden, US news, World news, Asia Pacific, China, Middle East and North Africa, Russia, Donald Trump
Joe Biden talks tough on putting the world to rights. But can he deliver?
The new US president faces a series of intractable foreign policy problems that won’t be solved by signing exe…
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From beheadings to abdications: a brief history of royal redundancies
As Emperor Akihito stands aside, Simon Tisdall looks back at other notable departuresRedundant royals have bee…