In the first instalment of a two-part commentary prepared for next week's Boao Forum, John Keane, Professor of Politics at ...

It would not be a stretch to see the United States's hundreds of military bases outside of its borders as a type of empire ..

The new American ruling class ... the nihilism and the regime of lies (Putin’s own term to describe the American empire) can be defeated and their country turned around and revived.

tells us something about the court rituals of the New American Empire. Earlier visits by Emmanuel Mac­ron and Keir Starmer had given us an inkling about how these tributary exchanges are meant to go.