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As Trump’s aggressive trade agenda collides with Japan’s strategic anxieties, the future of East Asia’s most vital relationship hangs in the balance.
For Czechs, Poles, and Russians, the Second World War was a war for Slavic survival — one that Stalin would hijack to forge an empire of his own.
Caught between scepticism and spiritual hunger, the ‘crypto-religious’ are seeking something to believe in outside the parameters of organised religion.
While some later critics accused the correspondent Lafcadio Hearn of exoticising the land of the rising sun, his writings and translations remain historically valuable for their in..
Indian strikes on locations in Pakistan used by Kashmiri Jihadi organisations underline the enduring nature of the conflict, which has special risks for the UK.
Donald Trump’s reported restriction of the President’s Daily Brief represents just the latest change in six decades of ebb and flow in the readership of this top secret, highly cov..
The Second World War was a conflict like no other, yet for 80 years it has defined the very idea of war itself.
Fifty years on from the desperate evacuation of Saigon, the helicopter remains a potent, if hubristic, symbol of American power. It hovers, all-powerful, over everything, but it ca..
Graham Greene's troubled childhood hardened him as a writer and made him a shrewd observer of the human condition. Although his work is peppered with cynicism, it is at its most pr..
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