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‘He’s a dictator’: Biden claims progress in Xi meeting, but deep fault lines...
WOODSIDE, Calif. — President Joe Biden and China’s Xi Jinping held a tightly-scripted diplomatic encounter Wednesday on the sidelines of a Pacific states summit aimed at calming fears over the U.S....
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Anti-green backlash hovers over COP climate talks
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM. LONDON — World leaders will touch down in Dubai next week for a climate change conference they’re billing yet again as the...
View ArticleFrance’s love of frog legs spawns pre-Christmas criticism
France adores its cuisses de grenouilles. But some activists are hopping mad. Consumption of the traditional French delicacy — frog legs usually sautéed with garlic and lemon juice or fried in...
View ArticleUrsula von der Leyen’s vanishing trade legacy
BRUSSELS — Ursula von der Leyen has spent much of the past four years jet-setting around the world in search of trade deals. But all those air miles haven’t translated into the agreements she aspired...
View ArticleDiplomatic cables reveal UK fears over $15B Vietnam coal deal
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Vietnam made a big splash at COP28 by announcing details of a $15.5 billion, G7-backed plan to shutter its coal industry — but British diplomats worry that Hanoi is not...
View ArticleBuilding wind power, canceling coal — it’s all drowning under borrowing costs
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Plans to push South Africa and Indonesia off coal sputtered. So have offshore wind farms on the New Jersey and British coasts, and a green hydrogen project in an Italian...
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Norway doubles down on deep-sea mining bet despite green fears
The Norwegian government wants to fire the starting gun on the exploitation of rare metals and minerals at the bottom of the ocean. But critics fear irreversible environmental damage. Earlier this...
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Democracy is in peril in the world’s bonanza year of elections
Is 2024 the year when democracy hits a tipping point and slides toward autocracy? It may seem like an odd question to ask at a time when countries representing nearly half the world’s population, or...
View ArticleBlairites take on Brussels
BRUSSELS — The Brits are making a comeback in the EU capital. Exhibit A: Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s international policy shop is wrapping up a hiring spree in Brussels. In just a year,...
View ArticlePopulism Keeps Rattling the Globe. Elites Have No Idea What to Do.
DAVOS, Switzerland — For more than a decade, forces on the ideological extremes have torn at the global political fabric. And for just as long, the luminaries at the World Economic Forum have fretted...
View ArticleWTO in ‘damage control’ mode as Abu Dhabi agenda unravels
The future of world trade is about to face a turning point: whether nationalist policies displace an eight-decade shift toward rules-based global commerce. This week’s biennial World Trade...
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Liz Truss’ massive in-flight food and booze bill revealed
LONDON — Former U.K. Prime Minister Liz Truss spent more than £15,000 on in-flight catering for a single trip to Australia while she was running the Foreign Office. The bill from the 2022 visit via...
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Boeing crisis: Why is everybody freaking out?
If you’ve been anywhere online over the past week, chances are your feed has been flooded with two insistent questions: Where is Kate Middleton, and what on earth is happening with Boeing planes?...
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Russia’s friends beg EU to leave frozen assets alone
BRUSSELS — Countries sympathetic to Russia are demanding the EU drop any notion it might have about a wholesale confiscation of Moscow’s state assets. Representatives of China, Saudi Arabia and...
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France has a military drone radar everyone’s desperate to get
LIMOURS, France — About 50 kilometers south of Paris, a factory is looking to double production of one of France’s best-selling pieces of military kit — Ground Master air surveillance radars. It’s a...
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Does the EU have what it takes to fight China on green tech?
The EU is getting increasingly trigger happy as it launches probe after probe into whether China is unfairly supporting its exporters and, in so doing, potentially killing off competitors based in the...
View ArticleThe impact of AI on disinformation and democracy
We are proud to support POLITICO’s expanded coverage of artificial intelligence (AI) and elections this year through this dedicated series. As a global foundation working to safeguard democracy from...
View ArticleDeepfakes, distrust and disinformation: Welcome to the AI election
This article is part of a series, Bots and Ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide. From his Boston apartment, Callum Hood has the power to undermine any election with a...
View ArticleHow people view AI, disinformation and elections — in charts
This article is part of a series, Bots and Ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide. Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT went public in late 2022, artificial intelligence — everything...
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The EU needs to get its trade mojo back, say Sweden and Finland
The European Union should be using trade policy to reassert its status as an economic heavyweight — not to save the planet. That’s what two of the bloc’s most ardent free traders — Sweden and Finland...
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Dust off your CV: The EU is going to need a new trade chief
WANTED: A commissioner to navigate the increasingly rough seas of global trade, avoiding shipwreck and guiding the European Union into calmer waters. If FTA is just another three-letter acronym to...
View ArticleAI, Inc. flexes its election bona fides — and hunts for customers
This article is part of a series, Bots and ballots: How artificial intelligence is reshaping elections worldwide, presented by Luminate. LONDON — Sitting in an unseasonably warm park in the British...
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Kyiv’s dilemma: Gaza overshadows Ukraine for non-NATO countries
SINGAPORE — After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Kyiv faced another uphill battle: convincing non-NATO countries to row in behind it and ditch ties with Moscow. That was a tough...
View ArticleZelenskyy accuses China of helping Russia sabotage peace summit
SINGAPORE — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy hit out at China, accusing the country of helping Russia derail a peace summit this month in Switzerland. “Russia, using Chinese influence on the...
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Deforestation law risks pushing Indonesia toward China
Anchal Vohra is a Brussels-based international affairs commentator. When Austria’s ministers of agriculture and economy called on the European Commission to delay the implementation of its European...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz blasts EU for failure to do trade deals
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz condemned the European Union’s trade policy on Wednesday, urging Brussels to accelerate negotiations on free-trade deals. Scholz’s broadside, which came in a speech to...
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The MEPs who actually matter
This article is part of the Brussels Survival Guide. There’s plenty to pay attention to in the new cohort entering the European Parliament — including, of course, the people. See below our guide on...
View ArticleHere are the world leaders Kamala Harris has on speed dial
President Joe Biden had the benefit of decadeslong personal relationships with world leaders as he sought to restore U.S. credibility on the global stage. Vice President Kamala Harris, if elected...
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Trash-industrial complex fights EU plans to cut waste
BRUSSELS — Europe won’t put its trash up for sale anymore and its customers are not happy. Long accused of dumping its waste in poorer countries instead of dealing with it, the European Union this...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz wants new EU anti-deforestation law delayed
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to postpone new EU rules aimed at preventing products driving deforestation from being sold on the EU market — and is lobbying Ursula von der Leyen about it. Scholz...
View ArticleWorld on track for catastrophic 3 degrees Celsius warming, UN warns
BRUSSELS — Intensify efforts to fight global warming or start planning a funeral for the Paris Agreement, the United Nations is telling governments ahead of this year’s international climate summit....
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