Liz Truss summons Chinese ambassador over ‘escalation’ in Taiwan

LONDON — China’s ambassador to the U.K. has been hauled into the Foreign Office for crisis talks over Beijing’s “aggressive and wide-ranging escalation” in Taiwan. Liz Truss, the U.K. foreign secretary and Conservative Party leadership hopeful, summoned Ambassador Zheng Zeguang to explain his country’s actions over recent days. Tensions between China and Taiwan escalated dramatically […]

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South Africa is on a knife edge as xenophobia escalates

Xenophobia is a global crisis, but in South Africa, it takes a particularly violent form. The day-to-day accumulation of insult and harassment from within the state and society periodically mutates into open-street violence in which people are beaten, hacked and burned to death. If there is a useful point of global comparison, it may be […]

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