Denis Staunton

Denis Staunton

China Correspondent

Denis Staunton is China Correspondent of The Irish Times. He is a former deputy editor and foreign editor and has served as the newspaper’s correspondent in Washington, London, Brussels and Berlin.

Gaza ‘the world’s largest graveyard for children’, Erdogan tells UN, as Israelis walk out

Speakers at the UN in New York identified Israel’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza and ethnic cleansing in the West Bank as an affront to the UN

Trump’s red carpet welcome for Xi shows how much the world has changed

As the Chinese president arrives in Washington for a state visit full of pomp, top of the agenda will be an uneasy trade truce due to expire within weeks

‘Anything could happen with me’: Trump can’t decide on his Iran strategy

Trump has left open the possibility of meeting Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian in New York this week

The US declared it has deployed weapons in space. How will China and Russia react?

The US, China and Russia have all developed anti-satellite systems, some of them ground based but others operating in orbit

An Irish voice in Beijing’s debate on the new world order

At China’s Xiangshan Forum, an Irish general argues that a multipolar world can only be stable if smaller states’ sovereignty is respected

Greece’s growing ties with Israel spark tensions with Turkey

Global Briefing: Athens last month signed a €3 billion air-defence deal with Israel

Morocco heads to polls, but king and football hold sway over political future

Global Briefing: Election on Sunday comes amid unhappiness over lavish spending on 2030 World Cup and underfunding of public services

Peru balances relations with the US and China

Lima joins a Trump coalition to use military force against drug cartels but has China as its biggest trading partner

West fears AI may kill us all but China and others see ‘immense’ opportunity

Developing countries hope that AI will allow them to leapfrog entire stages of technology development

How US response to 9/11 attacks reshaped the world

From Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay to mass surveillance and populist politics, the response to the attacks transformed far more than US foreign policy

Brics nations seek payments system free of the dollar and US sanctions

India’s Narendra Modi hosts a meeting of Brics leaders this weekend, with China’s Xi Jinping and Russia’s Vladimir Putin attending

The highest paid world leader is getting a pay rise of almost €1m

Global Briefing: Lawrence Wong says higher salaries are needed to attract capable people into politics and maintain standards of government

South Korea has not deployed forces in the US-Iran war - and Trump’s not happy

Tehran warns of ‘serious consequences’ if Seoul sends forces to the Strait of Hormuz

There was one important breakthrough at the Russia-Ukraine peace talks

US envoys were joined for final hour of talks in Kyiv by advisers from Germany, France and Britain

Presidential election tests strength of Zambian democracy

Incumbent Hakainde Hichilema has been accused of drift towards authoritarianism

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