The War of 1812, between the United States and Great Britain, ended with the Treaty of Ghent. This historic agreement, negotiated in Belgium over five months, proved that the U.S. could achieve its aims through diplomacy.

The FT's global China editor James Kynge and US national editor Edward Luce discuss how the relationship between the world's two superpowers will change once Joe Biden takes over as US president

The Philippine Coast Guard has accused a Chinese Coast Guard boat of steering within meters of one of its vessels in the South China Sea.