The career of the colonial politician is short & ends the acclamation of words for power; as soon as our bluff is called we are lost. Politics for us are a do-or-die, once-for-all charge. Once we are ...

Study tracking climate patterns across thousands of years found that periods of lower rainfall coincided with some major political upheavals Researchers have used tree rings to track rainfall patterns ...

China, a global economic powerhouse with the world’s largest population, drives significant global trade marked by rapid industrialization and economic growth. China once served as a center for ...

From the gates of the famed Chengdu Panda Base, fans run to the leafy “villa” of its celebrity resident: Hua Hua, China’s most popular panda. Among them is A’Qiu, who rents an apartment ...

Kemi Badenoch has defended her comments blaming “peasants” from “sub-communities” in foreign countries for the grooming gangs crisis. The Conservative leader faced criticism for her words last week, ...

This is an imperial presidency ... new trading partners (some of whom, such as eager China, would invite further retaliation from the Imperium in Washington), more innovation and productivity ...

YIWU, China—Li Bingnan got his orders in October: Design a snake-themed sculpture for his hometown——and make the scaly, legless creature cute. The Year of the Snake is slithering closer ...

As China’s leaders brace for a potential tariff war with the US, they’re signaling a break with decades of convention. On past occasions when the world’s second-biggest economy ran into ...

China’s state-owned Cosco shipping giant had purchased a 60% stake in the port for US$1.6 billion (A$2.6 billion), which gave the company exclusive use of the port for 60 years. Days later ...

Imperial’s Faculty of Medicine pioneers new ways to tackle real-world health challenges and inequalities. From fundamental understanding of sub-cellular processes all the way through to populations ...

And so, his heir Rajendra Chola explored new ways of cementing the empire. In the late 1010s, temple inscriptions show that he encouraged Tamil peasant-warriors to settle down in South Karnataka, ...

The aim is to extend as far as possible what the American historian Arthur Schlesinger (1917-2007) called, back in 1973, "the imperial presidency," increasingly evading the system of checks and ...