The United Kingdom Foreign Office has circulated a confidential paper relegating Australia, Canada, and Russia, [how much of the world's landmass is that, 50%? Natural resources, 60%? ed.] to second division status countries at the G20 summit. Issued to some PR agencies, it says that the UK should focus lobbying efforts on 11 “high-priority states” such as the US, France, China, India and Saud...

My latest at WPR discusses the potential and the pitfalls of a grand Asian anti-China entente: Moreover, the United States may find its position as the cartilage of a Japan-India-U.S. relationship uncomfortable. Both India and Japan have intrinsic, direct disputes with China, while U.S. concerns -- apart from Taiwan and North Korea -- are largely strategic. During the Cold War, the United States c...

BRITAIN and France are "absolutely united" behind military intervention in Libya, Foreign Secretary William Hague said yesterday, as he dismissed talk of tensions over

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague accuses China and Russia of "betraying the Syrian people" by vetoing a UN resolution condemning violence there.

Office for National Statistics - The UK`s productivity performance on a Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per worker basis, is lower than that of the US and France, similar to that of Canada, Germany and Italy, and above that of Japan according to new data for 2007.

Britain and Russia "have had some serious differences" in the past but should seek to resolve their issues through "dialogue and diplomacy", Foreign Secretary William Hague said yesterday as he sought to rebuild the UK's battered relationship with Moscow.

I toss out a couple of thoughts on modern naval arms limitation in my latest WPR column: China, India and Japan do not appear to be on the verge of breaking the bank in an effort to match each other's construction. Still, from a vantage point of 10 or 20 years out, it might make sense for the Asian powers to think in terms of regulating their naval competition. India, China and Japan can all ...

William Hague has condemned the decision by China and Russia to veto a UN resolution threatening action against the Assad regime

Britain's new government will work to increase the country's influence in the European Union and strengthen ties with emerging economic giants Brazil, India and China, Foreign Secretary William Hague said on Thursday (1 July).

The government will order an inquiry into allegations its security services were complicit in torture overseas, William Hague says.