Biden should embrace Britain’s new Indo-Pacific strategy
While final negotiations on the UK’s relationship with the EU continue to drag, No. 10 is moving rapidly to expand…
Taiwan, the WHO and the tactical struggle in US-China relations
Over the coming weeks, a battle between Washington and Beijing over the inclusion of Taiwan as an observer at the…
The world puts an * next to China
When Donald Trump publicly called into question China’s Covid-19 death rate claims at a recent White House press conference, the…
Geopolitical jockeying in a time of pandemic
You might think a global pandemic and the worst crisis since World War Two would lead to a welcome, if…
The West can only blame itself for failing to prepare for Huawei
With Boris Johnson’s government deciding to allow Huawei into Britain’s ‘non-core’ 5G networks, London is charting a new path for…
Britain’s Huawei gamble is sure to anger Donald Trump
Just hours after Donald Trump’s long-delayed state visit to Britain was finally confirmed, reports surfaced that Theresa May and her…
Making China great again
Most reporting on Jeremy Hunt’s visit to China this week went little further than his slip of the tongue in…
The war in the shadows
I once spent an evening, back in the mid-1980s, with William Colby, the legendary spy and director of the CIA.…