For decades, Taiwan has been one of the world’s most dangerous fault lines, a small island sitting at the centre of a growing rivalry between the world’s rising superpower and its reigning one.Now, tension has returned sharply to the global spotlight after Chinese President Xi Jinping appeared to invoke the idea of the “Thucydides Trap”…

Sigmund Freud (Credit: Bettmann/ Getty Images) Freud’s quote keeps appearing in online feeds, quote pages and short commentary columns, often stripped from any wider explanation. It travels well because it is short and slightly unsettling. There is no clean moral instruction inside it, only a comparison that feels unfinished. The line is usually presented as…

An Indian PhD student in the UK has shared a detailed breakdown of her monthly expenses, drawing attention to the growing cost-of-living pressures faced by international students, particularly the high cost of accommodation.Anushka Diwakar, a first-year doctoral student at the University of Manchester, posted a video explaining how she manages her finances while studying on…