To those who steep themselves in history, and others who follow international affairs with obsessive focus, the bill of particulars often cited this week in...

The Western press rarely shows China’s leader, Xi Jinping, smiling broadly or laughing, seeming to prefer photos of him that project a stern, even dour...

The footage from inside Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, which the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) posted to social media on Wednesday following its operation to take control...

For at least two weeks now, the press has told us with numbing repetition that the humanitarian situation in Gaza is becoming increasingly dire. Phrases...

This time of year, the days in Ferrara, a slightly out-of-the-way medieval castle town in northern Italy that I visited in late September, have a...

In war, it is commonplace to note that the longer a conflict’s duration or the more intense it grows, the denser the pall of fog...

The cascade of emotion and revulsion over the heinous tactics used by Hamas to deliberately target, kill, and kidnap Israeli civilians in surprise cross-border raids...

Nearly five years ago, acting on a warrant from a federal judge in New York, Canadian police arrested a high-profile Chinese businesswoman, Meng Wanzhou, as...

As world leaders gather in New York this week for the annual United Nations General Assembly, many of the themes of their speeches are so...

For most of the past 15 years, my interactions with young Chinese in their late teens and 20s have obeyed a familiar pattern. Having grown...