Senior Research Fellow Dr Christopher Sabatini provided evidence to a session of the UK Parliament’s Foreign Affairs ...
The 2026 UN Water Conference can still have a big impact this year – if it can discuss water action as critical to human wellbeing and economic activity and focus on pragmatic solutions.
Iran’s nuclear programme, missile arsenal, militia network and crackdown on protesters could all feature in upcoming ...
Drugs, migration, China and Venezuela likely to be on the agenda as two outspoken leaders meet in Washington ahead of Colombia’s elections later this year.
India is hoping a new democratically elected government in Bangladesh will help improve bilateral relations. But identity ...
Leaders agree on the need to reduce dependencies in defence, technology, energy and trade. But what are the priorities? And ...
An alliance with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan would not make NATO member Turkey better defended. But it would provide other ...
Amid calls for the international community to ‘unequivocally reject’ the election results, only two real options remain: ...
On 4 February 2026, the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START) is due to expire. If it does, it will mark the first ...
Greenland is an island with the right to independence, which may store up legal problems – as the UK’s experience with the ...
Opinion
Starmer’s China visit is the big story – but Beijing’s invisible leverage warrants greater scrutiny
Keir Starmer’s upcoming China visit and the UK’s approval of China’s new ‘mega-embassy’ have dominated headlines. But more attention should be paid to Beijing’s less visible levers of influence.
Objections to ratification are based on the language of a 1966 US–UK agreement. But these objections misread that treaty’s intent and context.
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