Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen’s telephone call to US president-elect lasted only for 10 minutes. But it has upended the decades-old One China policy. And this was the closest a Taiwanese president came to getting a formal recognition by United States. Tsai telephone call stirred the hornets’ nest. And it led to a barrage of blunt criticism both from China ...

  Americans enjoy an unusual kind of security — their big, domestically focused economy isn’t very vulnerable to external shocks. But most people around the world don’t have that luxury: Their jobs, businesses and livelihoods are very sensitive to events in far-off lands, and the choices of leaders they don’t elect. Right now, much of the world is in danger ...

  Don’t tell Tiny Tim, but even if Brexit hasn’t put a damper on Christmas 2016, next year might be a different story. Come January, Britons will pay 5 percent more for their Lego sets, as the Danish company raises prices in response to the pound’s decline in the wake of the UK decision to leave the European Union. And ...