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Business News > Mint Authors > Marc Champion

Marc Champion

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ARTICLES BY MARC CHAMPION

India has watched with trepidation as Russia supplies Beijing—and Beijing supplies Pakistan—with more sophisticated weaponry. Above, Russian S-400 air-defence systems during a military parade in Volgograd. Photo: Reuters

Chinese air-to-air missiles are transforming balance of power in the skies

7 min read . 08 May 2018

Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg is preparing to testify to Congress on how Cambridge Analytica, a company that worked on Trump’s election campaign, secured the data of 50 million Facebook users. Photo: Reuters

Facebook scandal alarms China eyeing next frontier in artificial intelligence battle

5 min read . 03 Apr 2018

Donald Trump’s meetings with Russian president Vladimir Putin and North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un could help dictate whether the world slides further back toward the days of missile proliferation and proxy conflicts. Photo: AFP

What Donald Trump can learn from Cold War before Vladimir Putin and Kim summits

5 min read . 26 Mar 2018

In other areas such as trade and relations with Iran, it isn’t clear whether Donald Trump’s brinkmanship and unpredictability can produce results. Photo: Reuters

Donald Trump’s North Korea bluster scores a win, but at high risk

4 min read . 07 Mar 2018

File photo. Donald Trump will be the first US President to speak at Davos since Bill Clinton in 2000. Photo: Bloomberg

In a polarized world, Davos displays the weakness of western leaders

2 min read . 24 Jan 2018

US President Donald Trump and Saudi Arabia’s king Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (right). The UAE foreign minister Anwar Gargash confirmed that Trump’s trip to the Gulf had helped trigger the decision by his country to launch an economic assault on Qatar. Photo: Reuters

When Donald Trump goes abroad, radical change follows in his wake

5 min read . 19 Jul 2017

The fact that the world leaders figured out the way to deal with US President Donald Trump after just a few brief interactions with him at the G20 summit, suggests how determined they were to solve the puzzle. Photo: AP

The world’s learning how to handle Donald Trump, but it’s tricky

4 min read . 10 Jul 2017

White House officials said that Donald Trump will seek to balance his ‘America First’ approach with the need to strengthen US alliances. Photo: Reuters

As Donald Trump prepares to face the world, first it’s time for friends

5 min read . 05 Jul 2017

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince Mohammed bin Salman sits during an allegiance pledging ceremony in Mecca on 21 June. Photo: Reuters

Saudi Arabia’s crown prince has the throne in his sights. Now for the hard part

4 min read . 22 Jun 2017

A file photo of UK Prime minister Theresa May. The UK’s decision to leave the EU remains probably the biggest source of uncertainty for London. Photo: Bloomberg

Terrorism, fire and Brexit cast long shadow over London’s summer

3 min read . 20 Jun 2017

A file photo of Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz. Photo: Reuters

Saudi Arabia has a lot to lose in fight with Qatar, even if it wins

5 min read . 09 Jun 2017

Qatar gas wealth enabled it to develop foreign policies that came to irritate its neighbours. Photo: Reuters

Saudi Arabia’s feud with Qatar has 22-year history rooted in gas

4 min read . 06 Jun 2017

US President Donald Trump has not followed through on pre-election threats to declare the Nato obsolete, abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement, accept Russia’s annexation of Crimea or declare China a currency manipulator. Photo: Bloomberg

Old world order is alive but unwell after four months of Donald Trump

4 min read . 30 May 2017

The strong popular mandate Hassan Rouhani received is severely limited, both at home and abroad. Photo: Behrouz Mehri/AFP

Iran polls: Hassan Rouhani faces tough second term as Trump arms Saudi Arabia

5 min read . 20 May 2017

Emmanuel Macron joins like-minded world leaders as they try to manage an unpredictable Donald Trump on the global circuit of G-7, G-20 and NATO summits. Photo: AFP

Macron win is bad for Vladimir Putin, good for team Angela Merkel on world stage

4 min read . 09 May 2017

A file photo of Emmanuel Macron. Photo: AFP

Emmanuel Macron optimism disguises historic meltdown in European politics

4 min read . 27 Apr 2017

Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg and US vice-president Mike Pence the Nato headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. Photo: Reuters

Four Nato nations would pick Russia over US to defend them

3 min read . 20 Feb 2017

Donald Trump said on 9 November 2016 he would bind the nation’s deep wounds and be a president ‘for all Americans,’ as he praised his defeated rival Hillary Clinton for her years of public service. Photo: AFP

US election 2016: Donald Trump victory threatens a new world disorder

6 min read . 09 Nov 2016

The natural response is to conclude that Islamic State has declared war on France. Photo: AFP

The right kind of war on terrorism

4 min read . 16 Nov 2015

Putin’s target is not Islamic State

3 min read . 01 Oct 2015