As the Founders saw it, the great driver of freedom was knowledge. Two decades before independence, the lawyer and essayist ...

Top Swiss officials will this week test whether big commitments to the U.S. can help secure relief from import tariffs, after ...

Beijing has called on the US to “completely cancel all unilateral tariff measures” if it wants trade talks, in some of China’s strongest comments yet on the impasse between the world’s two economic ...

As the US president’s rollercoaster tariff policy creates global financial chaos, Tim Harford asks: is he in a fight he can’t ...

The president of Palau has pledged to maintain recognition of Taiwan, but warned that small countries needed to demonstrate ...

US and Philippine forces are to conduct their first “full battle test” for fighting together in flashpoints such as Taiwan or ...

Marc Filippino It’s been nearly one month since US President Donald Trump kicked off his bid to reconfigure the global ...

Donald Trump had just nominated Fox TV’s Pete Hegseth as defence secretary. The question was rhetorical. It was obvious to both of us — and to almost everyone else outside the Mar-a-Lago bubble — that ...

The move would exempt car parts from the tariffs that Trump is imposing on imports from China to counter fentanyl production, as well from those levied on steel and aluminium — a “destacking” of the ...

Elon Musk’s cost-cutting team has set its sights on the National Gallery of Art, as the billionaire’s so-called Department of ...

“Security drives the election,” Trzaskowski, candidate of the Civic Platform party led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, said in ...

The Trump administration intends to press India to give online retailers such as Amazon and Walmart full access to its $125bn ...