The expectations of voters in the UK – like those elsewhere – may simply have become too great and too complex for any leader ...

This week’s summit has revived a 20-year-old idea of the ‘Group of Two’ superpowers working together with global benefits.

A cultural historian of modern China explains the meaning behind some of the venue choices during President Donald Trump’s ...

On the issue of contested island, both US and China appear happy to keep with the status quo. Meanwhile, the presence of US ...

Eurovision voters are driven by identity, politics and national alliances – and the juries and public often don’t agree.

The Chinese foreign ministry reported that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, told the US president, Donald Trump, that “the ...

Twin cyclones helped trigger massive ocean warming in the Pacific. But whether that leads to a strong El Niño is still ...

The opening headlines from the summit between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in Beijing signal an openness on the Chinese side ...

What did Thucydides really say on this? And what’s Athens and Sparta got to do with the current state of US-China relations?

For the city’s 360,000 residents, the financial effects of climate change will probably arrive before the water itself. Long ...

In the US state park of Robbers Cave, Oklahoma, Carolyn Wood Sherif is standing squinting up at the sun. The two wooden ...