Denis Staunton
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- Oct 2, 2026
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Europe wants to get tough on China. The risks could be enormous (opens the original)
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When trade commissioner Maroš Šefčovič visits Beijing next week, it will be for one of the most highly charged trade negotiations ever conducted between the European Union and China. In advance of the talks, each side has issued threats that have the potential to cause serious harm to both economies, although Europe’s is more vulnerable. Šefčovič’s meetings with China’s commerce minister Wang Wentao next Thursday and Friday are meant to assess how much progress China and the EU have made in reba
US troops invaded Iraq 23 years ago. Now Iraq and Iran are celebrating (opens the original)
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Iraq has declared today to be Sovereignty Day, the start of a four-day holiday to celebrate the withdrawal this week of the last United States forces from its territory 23 years after the invasion that overthrew Saddam Hussein. Iran is rejoicing too. For months before the last American troops left Iraq on Wednesday, there were only a few hundred of them left, mostly at an airbase in Erbil in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in the north of the country. But Iraqi prime minister Ali al-Zaidi tol
Was Burnhamâs Labour Party conference speech a turning point on Brexit? (opens the original)
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Andy Burnhamâs speech to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool was passionate, eloquent, well-delivered and full of bold policy ideas. It could also mark a turning point in the story of Brexit. As a performance, Andy Burnhamâs conference speech was almost flawless and his emotional grip on the audience in the hall was such that even when he fell silent halfway through, apparently unable to continue, they rose to applaud him. That unusually long pause, as he choked up at the memory of his
Greenland deal a reward for US bullying (opens the original)
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A week after signing a deal with the United States about the future of Greenland, Denmark is celebrating it as a great diplomatic achievement. So why should other Europeans should feel uneasy? When Denmarkâs ambassador to the United Nations, Christina Lassen, addressed the general assembly in New York yesterday, she spoke about the UN Charter as a compass that pointed the world towards human rights, the self-determination of peoples and the territorial integrity of states large and small. But
Are global controls needed for AI? The United States doesnât think so (opens the original)
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While AI companies issue ever more lurid warnings about the dangers of their own products, the United States has set its face against global governance of AI. It might happen anyway. Ahead of Xi Jinpingâs visit to Washington last week, there was speculation that he and Donald Trump might agree to work together to manage the risks associated with AI. In the end, they agreed to establish a hotline for the United States and China to alert each other to high-risk incidents but Trump made it clear
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