Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy
While Washington withdraws from multilateral deals, Tokyo has been uncharacteristically leading efforts to save them.
William Alan Reinsch, CSIS
In recent columns I addressed the harmful digital taxation proposals coming out of Europe and the danger of internet fragmentation due to incompatible rules on data storage, protection, privacy, and censorship, among other things. Today, I want to spend a bit more time specifically on privacy. To give away the ending up front, my conclusion is that there isn't any.
Kadri Tastan, GMF
Since the beginning of the year, the Eastern Mediterranean has undergone two important developments that will have significant geostrategic and energy-market implicationsthe discovery of the third-largest natural gas resources off the south coast of Cyprus by ExxonMobil, and the creation of a regional energy forum in Cairo in January. These developments confirm that energy issues will play a bigger role in the new regional dynamics and that several protagonists will be competing to exploit these newly discovered resources.
Gurcharan Das, Foreign Affairs
Gurcharan Das reflects on falling out of love with India's reformist prime minister.
James McAuley, Washington Post
A great cathedral is now a blackened hulk, a loss that feels almost unimaginable.
Zaki Ladi, Project Syndicate
Seventy-four years after the end of World War II, Europeans are still divided over competing notions of national sovereignty and regional integration. But with the rise of China and the fraying of transatlantic relations, the geostrategic vision of France's Charles de Gaulle has inevitably returned to the fore.
Yoichi Funabashi, Japan Times
It is terrifying to think of the continued risk of a deal between Trump and Kim that could leave North Korea's denuclearization incomplete.
Lyle Goldstein, National Interest
Beijing wants to join the race for Arctic resources and trade routes.
Deng Yuwen, SCMP
Xi has unification on his mind, but the conditions are not ripe for such a course of action, with China still locked in a trade war with the US and Taiwan gearing up for elections. The PLA's incursion into Taiwanese airspace was intentional, but it won't be overplayed.
