50 years after astronauts first walked on the Moon, space wars have gone from Hollywood fantasy to looming threat. Not content with possessing enough nuclear weapons to wipe out all life on Earth many times over, major powers are rapidly militarising space. Given the world’s increasing reliance on space-based assets, the risks are enormous.As with the Cold War-era Space Race between the United States (US) and the Soviet Union, the new global space race has an important symbolic dimension.

A United States (US) travel ban on Myanmar's army chief and three other top officers for their role in orchestrating a crackdown against Rohingya Muslims does not go far enough, a United Nations (UN) rights investigator said Thursday.The sanctions announced Tuesday were the strongest censure yet from a Western power since the army launched its offensive against the stateless minority in August 2017 following attacks on police posts.US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said army chief Min Au

China's economy grew at its slowest rate in nearly three decades in the second quarter, according to a survey of analysts, hit by the United States (US)-China trade war and weakening global demand.The world's second largest economy expanded 6.2 percent in April-June, the poll of 10 economists predicted ahead of the official release of gross domestic product (GDP) figures Monday.The reading would mark the worst quarterly growth in almost three decades but stays within the government&

United States (US) President Donald Trump ramped up his attacks on Silicon Valley giants on Thursday with a call for "regulatory and legislative solutions" to what he described as unfair treatment of conservatives by major online platforms.At a White House social media "summit," Trump excluded internet firms from the gathering of conservative activists who have been curbed on social media.But he said he would invite those companies in the coming weeks for "a big meeti

China demanded Tuesday that the United States (US) "immediately cancel" a potential sale of US$2.2 billion in arms to self-ruled Taiwan, including battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles, adding fuel to tensions between the two powers.The US later shrugged off China's complaints, responding that the equipment would contribute to "peace and stability" in Asia.The sale would be the first transfer of big-ticket US military gear to the democratically-governed island in de

United States (US) President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping may have agreed at the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Osaka to resume trade negotiations, but the path to ending the trade war remains far from clear.

The United States (US) Department of Homeland Security has fined several companies for evading President Donald Trump’s tariffs on imports from China by rerouting them through Cambodia’s Sihanoukville Special Economic Zone (SSEZ).

The third meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un on the world's last Cold War frontier checked off all boxes for a spectacular blockbuster – the suspense, the theatrics, and the climax – but was far from a normal summit.No formal communique was issued, leaving observers to interpret the two sides' individual pronouncements, whether by the leaders themselves or through statements and media.

Donald Trump stepped onto North Korean soil in a historic first Sunday as he met Pyongyang's leader Kim Jong-un in a moment of high diplomatic drama on the world's last Cold War frontier.Moments after becoming the only sitting United States (US) president to set foot inside North Korea, Trump brought Kim back over the dividing line for a meeting where they agreed to start working-level talks on Pyongyang's nuclear weapons.Trump, 73, also said he had invited 35-year-old Kim to t

United States (US) President Donald Trump on Saturday invited North Korean leader Kim Jong-un to meet for a historic handshake at the demilitarised zone (DMZ) that divides the Korean peninsula, and said he would have "no problem" stepping over the border.The invitation issued on Twitter caught observers by surprise.