Cordial meeting. Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Joe Biden held their low-expectations virtual summit Monday night. The tone was cordial; not much of substance was put on the table on any of the topics that reportedly dominated the discussion (Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, trade). There’s room for substantive negotiations on a handful of […]
Next week is Thanksgiving, a U.S. holiday that celebrates, and is celebrated with, food. This year, however, Americans are reckoning with rising food prices....
Concerns over Russian troops. Ukraine’s Western allies have warned that Russia is massing troops on the Ukrainian border. U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken...
Xi makes his intentions clear. At a four-day Central Committee plenum that wrapped up on Thursday, Chinese President Xi Jinping pushed through a resolution...
Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has fundamentally changed the Saudi system of governance established by his grandfather decades ago. In his drive to...
Border crisis. The situation at the Polish-Belarusian border is still tense. Last night, scores of immigrants tried to breach Poland’s border, at least according...
Tensions are rising again in Northern Ireland. Over the past week, pro-British gangs twice hijacked and torched buses in the Belfast area, and protesters...
Testing boundaries. The president of the European Commission on Monday called on member states to impose new sanctions on Belarus, which Brussels accused of...
