John Lee, Hudson Institute
The ruling will stiffen the unity and resolve of those voicing deep concerns with Chinese actions...
Frida Ghitis, WPR
Last Sunday, masked men intercepted a white van carrying Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido to a political meeting outside Caracas. They shoved Guaido into an SUV and sped away, taking into custody the man spearheading a bold and risky new strategy to try and reverse the country's calamitous decline under President Nicolas Maduro.Authorities freed Guaido after a short detention, perhaps because the incident was only meant to intimidate him, or maybe because the government is still unsure about how to deal with Guaido... Читать дальше...
Ethan Epstein, Washington Times
On a recent trip to Montreal, I was disturbed by a billboard that greeted me just outside the city's main train station: an ad for Huawei, the controversial Chinese technology company.
Aaron Kliegman, Free Beacon
In any war, the enemy gets a say in when the fighting stops. The Islamic State made clear on Wednesday that it is not done fighting the United States, nor the wider civilized world.
Sebastian Payne, Financial Times
Theresa May has survived yet again and stumbles on. The UK prime minister emerged victorious from a confidence vote in her government on Wednesday evening, which went down the typical party lines. The entire parliamentary Conservative party rallied behind their prime minister even though dozens of MPs had rejected her Brexit plan only 24 hours earlier. Her leadership is safe, for now. The government is safe, for now. Attention in Westminster therefore turns to... Читать дальше...
Con Coughlin, The National
The Nairobi attack is an attempt by the group to demonstrate that it is still a force to be reckoned with
Rachel Bowen, The Conversation
Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales is defying a constitutional court order to release a UN-backed prosecutor his government arrested and allow his corruption investigation to continue.
Dov Zakheim, The Hill
Allied to both the Turks and Kurds, the US is uniquely situated to broker their peaceful coexistence in Syria.
Bruce Riedel, Al Monitor
Saudi Arabia seems to have taken a number of wrong turns since Salman took the throne four years ago; can he make the decisions to get the country back on track?
Simon Desplanque, European Council on Foreign Relations
Growing tensions on the left and the right have driven the country to adapt a more cautious stance towards European matters
Noah Millman, The Week
What the crushing defeat of Theresa May's Brexit deal reveals about the future of the United Kingdom
Douglas Carswell, CapX
In 1992 many predicted economic ruin for Britain - they were proved totally wrong
Coyne, NP
All this, for a sovereign country that was half-out of the EU from the start with its own currency, for example and a union whose constitution made clear provision for how a member state could withdraw. How it could have been imagined that a province in a federation, with the much-tighter integration that implies, and in the absence of any explicit constitutional process for secession whatever, could have fared any better, is beyond comprehension.
Amy Davidson Sorkin, New Yorker
If nothing changes, Britain will still leave the European Union, on March 29thten weeks from now.
Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Parliamentarians are risking No Deal or No Brexit.
Japan News
-OpEd-TOKYO The United States has turned to inward-looking politics, while the unifying force of Europe has waned...
David Mulroney, Globe & Mail
Beijing's apparent willingness to resort to retaliatory detention puts a chill on diplomacy and may persuade those who conduct it to pull away, which would be a tremendous loss
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
The people of Sudan need the world??s help to protect them from their genocidal president.
Robert Ayson, Lowy Interpreter
Huawei's proposal for Kiwis to build their own 5G infrastructure can't mask tensions between Wellington and Beijing.
Robert Zaretsky, Foreign Policy
France's protest movement has become a crisis of legitimacy for Emmanuel Macronand the country's constitutional order.
Alan Wolfe, New Republic
He famously hailed the triumph of liberal democracy. Now he struggles to see a future for it.
Allison Fedirka, Geopolitical Futures
After his inauguration on Jan. 10 to a second term as Venezuela's president, Nicolas Maduro faced backlash from several world leaders who saw his re-election as fraudulent and his presidency as illegitimate. But one leader who refused to condemn Maduro is Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, who was himself inaugurated only on Dec. 1.
