Short-term pain disguises the fact that Beijing benefits from the US’s global retreat

In the US, UK and France voters seek solace in old, imagined certainties

Tory hardliners fail to grasp that the EU would set the terms of a no-deal rupture

Brexiters promote the delusion Britain and the US can recreate a mythical partnership

Russia and China will be the big winners from the end of US leadership

Some say another referendum would be divisive, but Britain is already deeply split

Cheering populists elsewhere should be careful what they wish for

The president intends to dismantle an alliance system that has endured for 70 years

Until now, Berlin has imported stability from its neighbours and allies

In squandering America’s soft power, Trump has shrunk its ability to get things done

The death of democracy is trumpeted today as loudly as the end of history once was

Leadership now more often belongs to 60- and 70-somethings than to 40-somethings

Theresa May has chosen the harshest possible interpretation of the referendum result

Turning off the TV set on the US president is not an option but nor is submission

Doubts abound over the US president’s moves on North Korea and Iran

The chancellor still has a chance to show that national and mutual interest can merge

Today’s protesters want to cling on to the past, not seize the future

Demands for repatriation of artefacts seized by marauders are becoming hard to resist

It is now fashionable to dismiss the assumptions of the post-cold war order

Only Sino-American understanding can ensure lasting agreement on the Korean peninsula

As the clock ticks, the UK’s position only grows weaker