The Midterm Reality Check: Decoding the Local Election Blow to Labour Local council elections in the UK are often described as the ultimate political thermometer. If that is true, then the latest round of voting has just delivered a freezing prognosis for Prime Minister Keir Starmer and the ruling Labour government.
Beyond France and Germany: Why New Delhi is Looking North For decades, India’s European foreign policy could be summed up in two words: Paris and Berlin. But as Prime Minister Narendra Modi wrapped up his high-stakes European tour this May, a quiet but seismic shift in New Delhi’s geopolitical calculus became unmistakable
For decades, the rules of global trade were written in a single language, dictated by a unipolar world order led by the United States. You either integrated into the Western-backed economic system or you found yourself on the outside looking in.
Last week, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping met in Beijing in a highly anticipated summit that has reverberated across capitals from Washington to Tokyo and Lagos. This was Trump’s first visit to China in nearly a decade, and it came at a moment of mounting global tension — with wars, economic competition, and strategic rivalry intensifying around the world.