US tariffs add to the sense of an increasingly unpredictable and unreliable partner. Allies in Europe and the Pacific are ...

Chinese exporters of the restricted rare earths have already reported a halt to shipments as they await licenses from the Chinese Ministry of Commerce, a system which gives Beijing the ability to ...

Trump’s trade war has brought Norway even closer to the EU and increased the urgency for it to make a decision about ...

Beijing will see the removal of South Korea’s president and subsequent election as an opportunity to undermine Seoul’s ...

X CEO Elon Musk is close to President Trump at a time when India wants to negotiate on US trade. But X’s case challenges wide ...

Despite the bitter exit of Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger from ECOWAS and their formation of the rival AES, the destinies of the two blocs remain deeply intertwined.

South Sudan’s civil war ended in 2018 through a peace agreement between President Salva Kiir’s South Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In Government (SPLM-IG) and Riek Machar’s Sudan People’s ...

Beyond the shock of its sheer scale, the Trump administration’s extraordinary new tariff regime, announced on 2 April 2025, was notable for the exemptions it contained. Certain critical minerals – ...

Last weekend, US President Donald Trump extended the 5 April deadline for TikTok to sell its assets to a US owner or face a nationwide ban, the second time he has postponed the ultimatum facing the ...