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The Latest Articles by Simon Tisdall

When Macron met Xi: welcome to the new world disorder

China’s leader is gathering autocratic regimes to his banner, Europe and the US are divided over how to respond, and the French president just lobbed a grenade onto the field of international diplomacy

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It’s the Donald J Trump Show … and the world’s tyrants are its biggest fans

High farce in a Manhattan courtroom has left America’s friends and foes wondering if the US has lost the plot

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War in Taiwan will dwarf Ukraine unless the US shows China its teeth

Putin thought he could get away with his invasion. Xi Jinping must be deterred from making a similarly fatal miscalculation

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The world still needs a policeman. Let’s hope the US doesn’t quit the job

America’s record at keeping global order is deeply flawed, but the only winners from its drift towards isolationism will be Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin

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Nuclear nightmare: reckless leaders are pushing the world back to the brink

It’s not just Putin or the refusal of the main powers to disarm. Irresponsible regimes in Israel and North Korea are also raising global nuclear tensions

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How to break the Xi-Putin axis? Biden must engage with Beijing

Beijing is following Vladimir Putin’s aggressive playbook. The US can counter the march of the autocrats, but only if it stops feeding their paranoia

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Nato faces an all-out fight with Putin. It must stop pulling its punches

Having catastrophically failed to deter Russian aggression in Ukraine, the western alliance needs a plan to win the war, writes Simon Tisdall

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Outdated and out of time: Biden’s crusade for global democracy is doomed to fail

The US president won rave reviews in Kyiv and Warsaw. But his old, cold war mindset is out of step with a changing world

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What do Prince Andrew, Kim Jong-un and a Ugandan general have in common?

Dynasties distort open societies and should be resisted - yet succession has become an obsession for political families

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Liz Truss’s delusional speech about China is digging the trenches of a second cold war

Does she really think Xi’s threats to Taiwan will be stopped by the sabre-rattling of the failed PM of a former colonial power? asks foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

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Tear down these walls, or get used to a world of fear, separation and division

Europe was made whole in 1989. Now concern about migrant ‘invaders’ is turning the continent, and other global regions, into fortresses

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Turkey’s two-faced ‘sultan’ is no friend of the west. It’s time to play hardball

President Erdoğan’s increasingly hostile stance towards Nato and democratic principles can no longer go unpunished

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And Then What? by Catherine Ashton review – frank admissions from the former EU chief diplomat

A candid memoir of a fraught time in office provides a useful record of high level negotiation in Iran and Ukraine

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Ukraine is fighting for all of us. Now Europe must fight Putin too

As Russia threatens another offensive, this is the moment of maximum danger. Ukraine’s allies must move fast and decisively

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Netanyahu is Israel’s own worst enemy. Why won’t western allies confront him?

The hard-right religious coalition is attacking civil liberties at home and becoming an unreliable partner abroad. Its leader is endangering western support for his country, writes Simon Tisdall

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UK looks clumsy and powerless in wake of Iran’s execution of Alireza Akbari

Culturally insulting language used by Rishi Sunak and James Cleverly will increase tension between the two countries

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Global action is needed to topple Myanmar’s criminal junta boss

From brutal murders and military parades to jailed opponents, Min Aung Hlaing is true to the tyrant’s playbook. The worldwide fight for democracy has to be fought here

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Sport, TV, tech and fashion: what does 2023 have in store for us?

From culture to politics, the cost of living crisis, lifestyle, the environment and science – the next 12 months will bring new stars, trends and challenges. Our experts point the way

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Ukraine is in the headlines now. But a whole new world of conflict is about to erupt

Taiwan, North Korea, Iran and Palestine are all potential flashpoints that could distract western attention from the invasion in 2023

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Good news for the world’s autocrats – EU sleaze is a huge own goal for democracy

Qatargate scandal shows how insider corruption, influence-peddling and money-politics can erode public trust, says Observer columnist Simon Tisdall

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Putin has to escalate to survive. There can be no lasting peace until he falls

German chancellor Olaf Scholz’s vision of restoring the unity the continent had before the invasion of Ukraine cannot be achieved without removing Russia’s president

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In Germany, the tweedy prince is just the latest in a long line of failed putsches

Heinrich and his cronies seem unlikely insurrectionists but their connections run back to Bismarck’s time

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Vive the evolution! Rishi Sunak launches a slow-motion bid to rescue Britain

Ridiculed and pitied abroad, and floundering at home, the new UK prime minister sets out his vision: survival of the weakest, says Observer columnist Simon Tisdall

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Even amid murderous Russian raids, western apathy is Kyiv’s deadliest foe

Putin’s missiles are raining down on Ukrainians, but the biggest danger they face is weakening support from the US and Europe, writes Simon Tisdall

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Troublemaker Trump doesn’t care about a second term – or America. What he craves is attention

Trump says he’s in it to win it in 2024. But all he offers is disruption and division in the service of his ego, not his country, writes Simon Tisdall

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