A man we’ll call Jonathan came to America after fleeing torture in his home country. An immigration judge ruled he could not be sent back. But that did not preclude him from being sent elsewhere—to Equatorial Guinea, in his case—and then frog-marched onto a plane home. The Trump administration is dumping thousands of asylum-seekers in repressive third countries and turning a blind eye to their fates. 

Western influencers, fascinated with all things Chinese, are posting about herbal medicine, braised goose and Zhongnanhai cigarettes on social-media sites banned in China itself. Is Chinamaxxing responsible for record foreign tourism?

And finally, every relationship has ups and downs, but the bond between Britain and America is at its weakest point in 70 years. On today’s episode of The Insider, our editors on both sides of the Atlantic discuss what went wrong.