The pledge made by the world’s leading economies to do more to lift global growth to deal with fallout from Britain’s Brexit vote and counter dissatisfaction with globalisation is important. These will definitely reverse the slowing global economic growth. With the focus of the British leave vote, the Group of 20 nations hoped to see the UK as a …

  Clive Crook Listening to Donald Trump’s speech at the Republican convention, and scanning the reaction to it, I have the sinking feeling that he might win in November. He’s extremely effective at what he does. His critics, on the other hand, are not. The speech was purest populism: nine-tenths grievances and empty promises, one-tenth stupid policy ideas. Yet the …

  Despite China’s great power aspirations, its cyber warriors threw a fit after losing a legal battle to the Philippines in The Hague. Within hours of the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s unanimous rebuke of China’s territorial claims in the South China Sea last week, at least 68 national and local government websites in the Philippines were knocked offline in a …