When a state wanted to remove a rival or to punish an enemy it often preferred the language of shadows: plausible deniability ...

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“We know perfectly well how things will turn out,” the knight explained, his armor probably still smeared with the blood of Archbishop Thomas a Becket. “King Henry—God bless him—will have to say, ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) That has seemingly been the case for two of China’s closest allies: Russia in its war ...