A made-in-China plan for world domination Donald Trump is failing to stop China’s rise as a manufacturing superpower
The War Room newsletter: Why Trump wants a Taliban air base back The president’s neo-imperial worldview has something to do with it, according to Shashank Joshi, our defence editor
Cold war deterrence doesn’t work any more Why the West is finding it so hard to deter China and Russia
Meet the leader of Europe’s anti-Trump resistance For Spain’s leader, Pedro Sánchez, opposing Trump is a lonely endeavour
How Israel’s arms exports have made it sanctions-proof Israel gains diplomatic insurance by supplying weapons crucial to Europe’s defence
Who is winning in AI—China or America? China offers the world a values-free, results-based vision of AI governance
Donald Trump is waging war on woke AI “Marxist lunacy” is out. But unbiased chatbots may be impossible
A burning threat to pregnant women Alarming new research on the link between heat and dangerous pregnancies
The War Room newsletter: Seven of the best books on the Pacific war Richard Cockett, a news editor, recommends seven books about the defeat of Japan in the second world war
How to write laws of war for a wicked world The post-1945 order is crumbling. History offers a glimpse of alternatives that might work
The War Room newsletter: How receiving aid became fatal in Gaza Oliver Jones, our news editor, on the perils of seeking aid in Gaza