Taiwan thinks the unthinkable: resisting China without America Its plan was to hold off a Chinese attack until America turned up. What now?
To earn American help, allies are told to elect nationalists MAGA-world flirts with forces that once tore Europe apart
Vladimir Putin’s sickening statistic: 1m Russian casualties in Ukraine His regime uses payouts to salve Russian families’ grief
Donald Trump steals Xi Jinping’s favourite foreign policy China blames US interventions for Middle East turmoil. “Snap!” says Mr Trump
How to fight the next pandemic, without America The world scrambles to save global health policy from Donald Trump
Fact-checkers forecast which dodgy claims will do most damage How to distinguish between weapons-grade disinformation and everyday codswallop
China and Russia are deploying powerful new weapons: ideas The West is retreating from the battle of the narrative
Why Donald Trump is a globalist The mystery of an America First president fascinated by foreigners’ disputes
The UN could run out of cash within months America and China are pushing it to the brink of financial collapse
A Trump executive order will unleash a global deep-sea mining boom It will galvanise international co-operation over writing rules for the ocean bed
Why some countries are once again embracing cluster bombs The once-banned weapons are making a comeback to deter Russia