Asia

One of the recurring questions coming from Europe and North America is deceptively simple: why does China not do more to intervene in the Russia-Ukraine war?

The question sounds reasonable until it is placed inside the wider history of international relations. China has repeatedly said that it is...

A question that would have sounded absurd twenty years ago is now being discussed seriously across the internet, political circles, universities, and diplomatic spaces around the world. Is Xi Jinping becoming the leader of what people once confidently called the “free world”? The reason this questio...