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China has feigned outrage at the US sailing a warship within 20km of one of its islands. It’s all about it wanting to protect military power, writes Bill Emmott

The main determinants of an emerging economy’s ability to emerge, sustainably, are politics, policy and the institutions of governance, writes Bill Emmott

Despite his sensitivity to accusations of nepotism, Lee Kuan Yew may have secured his legacy by training his son for 14 years to follow in his footsteps, writes Bill Emmott

A modern-day Marshall Plan supported by national leaders that included debt write-off, public investment, and trade would give all of the EU its best chance of recovery, writes Bill Emmott

Forget the financial cost, the psychological impact of the disasters that have hit Japan will be the hardest thing to deal with, writes Bill Emmott

A FORMER editor-in-chief of The Economist has been made a non-executive director to the Board of Development Consultants International.

THE article on The Economist Group (The Irish Examiner, August 9) was seriously inaccurate.