World Affairs Reporter
Liam Chen covers geopolitics, diplomacy and global development, with a focus on making complex international stories accessible.
The Israel-Palestine conflict has killed 30,000+ since 2000 — here's the history, what both sides want, and why a two-state solution…
Modern sanctions bite through dollar clearing, correspondent banking and London's marine insurance market rather than trade bans, and…
Norway's $1.7 trillion Government Pension Fund Global, built on two fiscal rules held for decades, owns about 1.5% of all listed shares…
A red notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest a wanted person, not an international arrest warrant, and that legal gap is…
Article 27 of the UN Charter gives five permanent members a veto over substantive Security Council decisions, and Article 108 lets those…
The Commonwealth's 56 members share a small London secretariat whose real output is election observation, legal and trade advice for small…
Swiss neutrality, recognised at Vienna in 1815 and codified at The Hague in 1907, is an armed economic strategy now strained by EU…
China and the USA are locked in a new Cold War over trade, technology, and Taiwan — here's why tensions are rising and what it means for…
The UK says European allies are expected to spend about USD50bn, roughly GBP37bn, over 10 years on deep precision-strike capabilities.
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