Profile: The Foreign Office, damaged by the retreat from Kabul, but free at last of Blairite illusions

Sir Anthony Eden offers the great modern warning: an expert who lacked the mental robustness to cope at the highest level.

Lettice Bromovsky: Now that the UK has a firm place within the ASEAN bloc, it must stand up to China’s aggressive antics

A unified approach against this authoritarian power is the only way to combat Chinese influence and expansion.

David Lidington: There’s no alternative to our American alliance. But we also need a new strategic relationship with our European allies.

A lot can be done through NATO structures like the Northern Group that brings together its members and partner countries.

Enver Solomon and Sunder Katwala: Refugees mark 70 years of UK sanctuary

We should take pride in seven decades of refugee protection, and it is a principle we must uphold in the future too.

Tobias Ellwood: We’ve left Afghanistan to become a haven for terrorists to plot attacks against the West – once again

We urgently need an inquiry to understand our strategic failures in the country, and what went wrong.

Simon Schofield: Iceland, the UAE and Vietnam have had some of the best responses to Covid. Here’s what we can learn from them.

Our debates are often rooted in “the West”, and the successes of nations outside of this club tend to be passing headlines at most.

Stephen Booth: The main benefits of joining this Pacific trade partnership would be strategic

Future deals will be important but they should be viewed as a means to an end rather than an end in of themselves

Daniel Hannan: Ignore the Europhile sneers. Joining the Pacific bloc marks the rebirth of Global Britain.

The CPTPP is preferable to the EU because it elevates mutual recognition over harmonisation.

The China genocide amendment. Our politicians should decide our trade policy – not our judges.

There’s a case for empowering our courts to make a genocide ruling over the Uighars. But not for giving them a veto on trade deals in doing so.

Ranil Jayawardena: The trade deals keep coming. And today, as the new EU agreement takes effect, we look forward to more.

We have now secured 97 per cent of the trade value that we set out to reach agreements for first, beyond the EU. And there’s more to come.

Michelle Donelan: The Government’s new Turing scheme will open up the world to British students

The decision not to continue participation in the EU’s Erasmus+ scheme has caused outrage. But it’s time for Global Britain to branch out.

Anthony Browne: Are we really going to pass a law that would harm many of the world’s poorest people?

Such would be the effect of a well-intentioned but ill thought-out amendment to the Agriculture Bill that will come to the Commons tomorrow.

Ben Roback: Why America’s election may turn on jobs, immigration, abortion and China – not race, policing, justice and riots

Trump has shown a rare flash of flexibility in signing a police reform executive order, breaking a hitherto narrow commitment to law enforcement.

Damian Green: Our approach to China may now have to be more like our attitude to Russia during parts of the Cold War

My own experience when I was a minister showed two institutions which really didn’t care very much what we thought: the Chinese government, and Google.

Syed Kamall: People in Brussels expect a Brexit deal will be struck, but fear time is running out

Meanwhile, my ECR colleagues and I continue to push for a sensible, nation-led approach to tackling the migration crisis.