Across Asia, China is beginning to face a backlash against its landmark Belt and Road Initiative. Last month, Malaysia’s Prime Minister accused Beijing of turning its foreign investment into a “new colonialism”. In the Maldives, the China-backed president, Abdulla Yameen, was recently ousted. However, one region where the Belt and Road Initiative is taking off […]
“Europe is gripped by history”. So said Emmanuel Macron a couple of months ago after receiving the Charlemagne prize for his work towards “European Unification”. The French president is surely right. Echoes of the past reverberate through Europe’s corridors of power. In his State of the Union speech last week European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker […]
The eventual economic consequences of a Brexit deal seem to be more important to voters than the ability to control immigration. New polling released by the National Centre for Social Research, led by the influential pollster John Curtice, shows a softening of public attitudes to an eventual trade-off between the free flow of British goods […]
