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Le président chinois Xi Jinping et le président américain Donald Trump se sont rencontrés pour discuter des liens économiques et de la situation à Taiwan. Xi a averti Trump que toute erreur sur Taiwan pourrait déclencher un conflit.
Donald Trump's historic visit to Beijing — the first by a US president in nearly a decade — unfolded under the shadow of the Iran war, Taiwan tensions, and a rare-earths standoff. With Trump arriving as a relative supplicant and Xi holding firm on four non-negotiable red lines, the summit tested the limits of transactional diplomacy between the world's two superpowers.
The King's Speech of May 13, 2026 unfolded against the backdrop of an unprecedented political crisis for Keir Starmer: several Labour ministers resigned, over 100 MPs offered conditional public support, and comparisons emerged with Joe Biden's fall. The British Prime Minister refused to step down, invoking his governing mandate.
Israel's Knesset passed a law establishing a special military tribunal empowered to impose the death penalty on those responsible for the October 7, 2023 attacks, while the European Union reached a long-blocked agreement to sanction extremist Israeli settlers responsible for violence in the West Bank. These two simultaneous decisions are sparking a global debate on legal standards, Israeli sovereignty, and Western diplomatic pressure.
With Donald Trump describing the ceasefire with Tehran as being 'on massive life support', the Strait of Hormuz has been sealed for 28 days, pushing US inflation to 3.8% and threatening Asian economies with a second energy shock. Iran rejects the US proposal as illegitimate, Beijing presses Islamabad to intensify its mediation, and the world holds its breath ahead of the Trump-Xi summit.
Eleven confirmed cases, three deaths, one French patient on artificial lung support, and a global split on quarantine protocols: the MV Hondius reveals that each country arbitrates alone against a virus that science still barely understands.
On May 11, 2026, the Philippine House of Representatives voted 257 to 25 to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte, daughter of former president Rodrigo Duterte. Accused of misusing public funds, unexplained wealth and plotting to assassinate President Marcos, she becomes the first Philippine official impeached twice. The case moves to the Senate, whose leadership was just seized by a Duterte ally.
Former Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, 76, walked out of prison on May 11, 2026 after eight months for corruption. His conditional release reignites debate over his political future in a profoundly changed Thailand, where his Pheu Thai party suffered its worst ever electoral defeat.
From May 13-15, Donald Trump makes his first state visit to China since 2017, accompanied by Elon Musk, Tim Cook, and roughly a dozen American CEOs. The Trump-Xi summit takes place against a charged backdrop—Iran, Taiwan, tariffs, rare earths—and is being scrutinized by middle powers worldwide as a signal about the international order to come.
More than 70 Labour MPs are demanding Keir Starmer's resignation after the party's worst local election results in decades. Starmer is fighting back with a promise to bring Britain closer to the EU and nationalise British Steel — but the internal rebellion is intensifying.
Peter Magyar, leader of the conservative pro-European Tisza party, was sworn in as Hungary's Prime Minister on Saturday May 9th, ending sixteen years of Orbán's governance. Before tens of thousands of supporters on Budapest's Parliament Square, Magyar pledged to restore democracy, fight corruption, and reanchor Hungary in the European Union. The EU flag, absent from the Parliament facade for twelve years, was immediately re-raised.
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