To calculate its ‘reciprocal tariffs’, the Trump administration has opted for a crude formula with no basis in trade theory.

The president has followed in the footsteps of Louis XIV of France and the czars of Russia, who operated national theaters as ...

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Equally worrying, Russia has increased its naval cooperation with China and given Beijing access, and a stake, in the Arctic.

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Australia should be careful of going down the route of supplicant in the effort to remove the new Trump tariffs.

Anthony Albanese has announced that the government will ensure the Port of Darwin, currently leased by the Chinese company ...

The consensus is that it was Ebrahim Rasool’s responsibility to hold his tongue, a kind of golden rule in diplomacy.

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Street trees often grow in appalling soil, have little root space, are rarely watered and get aggressively trimmed. But this ...

Unfortunately for the Romans, however, these tariffs often led to higher prices, black markets and other economic problems.

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