


Tomorrow, Beijing will not so much commemorate history as parade its ambitions for the future. Xi Jinping has ordered the largest military spectacle in China’s modern history, ostensibly to mark the 80th anniversary of Japan’s defeat in the Second World…

Vladimir Putin arrived in Tianjin this weekend like a man determined to prove he still matters. At the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) summit, hosted by China and hailed by state media as a “historic moment”, the Russian president clasped hands…