The UK must invest in both hard and soft power – it is the only way to be taken seriously on the world stage ...

In its annual report, Human Rights Watch warned that civil rights are under threat globally since the reelection of US ...

The United Nations Human Rights Council sparked outrage on Wednesday when it announced that two of the seven experts elected to its advisory committee were from Iran and China. Hillel Neuer, Executive ...

Qin Hui, professor emeritus of history and economics at Tsinghua University and a pre-eminent Chinese public intellectual, who now lives and writes abroad, in April of this year published a book on ...

In early 2025, the Chinese company DeepSeek released its R1 artificial intelligence model, sending shock waves throughout policy circles in the United States. Despite U.S. export controls on advanced ...

As President Trump pulls back U.S. funding of the United Nations, countries like China, Russia and Qatar are seeking to influence the body’s work on human rights and labor. By Mara Hvistendahl Mara ...

Human Rights Watch urged French President Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday to treat human rights as an integral part of France’s broader policy with China. Rather than treating them as distinct from ...

How US Tariffs, UK-China Ties, And EU-India Deals Reshaping World Economy. Nazrin Abdul Read more The world is witnessing an ...

The US–China ‘trade war 2.0’ has intensified economic decoupling and disrupted China’s central role in global production networks. In response, Beijing has pursued trade and investment diversification ...