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Behind US-China smiles, Taiwan face-off risks peril
News, Peter Apps, Published on 28/11/2023
» When John F Kennedy became US president in January 1961, he was determined to meet his Soviet counterpart, Nikita Khrushchev, directly. It was better, he told advisers, "to meet at the summit rather than the brink".
Syria strike leaves murky aftermath
News, Peter Apps, Published on 20/04/2018
» The US-led strikes on Syria may be over, at least for now, but the war that produced them -- as well as the wider international confrontations that fuelled it -- is only getting more complex.
Yes, 2016 was bad. But next year risks being far worse
News, Peter Apps, Published on 23/12/2016
» The killing of Russia's ambassador to Turkey on Monday evening might have prompted knee-jerk comparisons to the 1914 assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, but it almost certainly won't spark a World War I-type conflict. The lethal truck attack that killed 12 in Berlin a few hours later, however, could ratchet up the prospect of yet another political shock in Europe.