Both Australia, a young federation deeply tied to the British Empire, and the United States, a rising but not yet super power, saw value in signalling US Pacific presence to Japan. For Roosevelt ...

Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry was born in Rhode Island. A member of the Perry family naval dynasty and often called the ...

One consistent lesson from history is that Western powers will go to any length, including staging wars and coups against ...

Free trade has been so beneficial to so many countries that the world may find a way to live without its biggest player.

A tariff is a tax. It is a tax imposed by Government on goods imported into, and occasionally exported from, a country. In ...

The significance of building a regional coalition was observed when Trump pulled out of the TPP in 2017. Eleven countries, ...

From the looms of 18th century Bengal to clothing factories in Cape Town, tariffs have shaped the global economy not through ...

China’s leadership was set to meet for crisis talks after Donald Trump’s new 125 per cent tariff on Chinese imports went into ...