Author: Helen Partz

LONDON (Reuters) -Britain’s foreign minister David Lammy could be on the hook for a 2,500 pounds ($3,394) fine following his fishing trip last week with U.S. Vice President JD Vance, after admitting he didn’t have the required licence. Vance and Lammy were pictured by invited media as they fished in the lake at the foreign minister’s Chevening country residence in southeast England before a bilateral meeting as part of the vice president’s working holiday to Britain.Read More

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With tensions rising in East Asia, the likelihood of a dual contingency—both in the Taiwan Strait and on the Korean Peninsula—is far from a hypothetical scenario. A simultaneous contingency—where war breaks out concurrently in the Taiwan Strait and on the Korean Peninsula—would generate deeply complex strategic challenges for the United States and its allies in the region. Under such grave conditions, South Korea would undoubtedly face strategic, operational, and legal constraints in assisting Taiwan. Nevertheless, despite such constraints, South Korea could still take concrete steps to meaningfully deter the aggressors and help a US-led coalition mount an effective response.Read More

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