APEC 2018 Summit: US steps up confrontation with China

This year's Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit held in Port Moresby, the capital city of Papua New Guinea on November 17-18, ended up in deep division between the USA and China failing to agree on a final communique. This has happened for the first time in APEC's 30-year history. The...

Macron illuminates European hypocrisies

Emmanuel Macron is the largest political force in Europe today, but he is a force now hemmed in, constrained, trapped. The hurricane of his success last year - the defeat of the far-right Marine Le Pen, the sweeping assembly victory of his newly-minted party, La République En Marche!, made him...