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US secretary of state’s trip seeks to clear the air but issues such as Taiwan and Ukraine leave limited room for compromiseAntony Blinken has arrived in Beijing on the highest-level trip by a US official since 2018, with his aides signalling he was see…
Analyst who leaked studies showing US government knew the Vietnam war was un-winnable became activist and writerDaniel Ellsberg, a US government analyst who became one of the most famous whistleblowers in world politics when he leaked the Pentagon Pape…
US secretary of state’s visit comes amid tense exchanges as China’s foreign minister says US should respect the ‘Taiwan issue’In a long-awaited visit, the US secretary of state is due to arrive in China this week, where he is expected to meet with seni…
Deal signed last month gives US ‘exclusive use’ of parts of bases, as Palau PM says he has asked US to step up patrols after Chinese incursions into its waters The US military can develop and operate out of bases in Papua New Guinea, according to a lan…
Return of US ends decade-long dispute sparked by agency’s move to admit Palestine as a memberThe UN’s cultural and scientific agency, Unesco, has announced that the US plans to rejoin – and pay more than $600m (£477m) in back dues – after a decade-long…
Chinese intelligence collection from Cuba predates the Biden era, with facilities upgraded in 2019, White House official saysChina has been spying from Cuba for some time and upgraded its intelligence collection facilities there in 2019, a Biden admini…
Although a slightly haphazard set of pledges, it accepts world has moved on from Brexit and 2019 UK electionUK politics live – latest updatesIf Rishi Sunak’s two-day visit to Washington demonstrated anything, it was the vital but sometimes neglected po…
Landmark agreement moves UK firmly into US economic orbit but falls far short of full trade deal Tories promised in 2019Rishi Sunak and Joe Biden have announced a deal for transatlantic cooperation that moves the UK firmly into the US administration’s …
Facility would allow Beijing to gather electronic communications from US but Cuba dismisses report as ‘unfounded’China has reached a secret deal with Cuba to establish an electronic eavesdropping facility on the island roughly 100 miles (160km) from Fl…
US media has reported that the White House was briefed about a Ukrainian plot to blow up the pipeline months before it occurredSee all our Ukraine coverageKyiv knew nothing about a plan to blow up the Nord Stream gas pipelines, president Volodymyr Zele…