Vijay Chauthaiwale, Indian Express
PM Modi has received the King Abdullaziz Sash Award of Saudi Arabia, Amir Abdulla Khan Award of Afghanistan, Grand Collar of the State of Palestine, the UN Champions of the Earth award, Seoul Peace Prize 2018 and the Zayed Medal of UAE.
Rick Joe, The Diplomat
What would be the role of China's missile and naval forces in an invasion of Taiwan?
Shekhar Gupta, The Print
The Modi-Shah BJP has resurrected dangers & the enemy from the past, and built a scary jingoism. It??s a great diversionary tactic, but it never ends well.
Doug Bandow, National Interest
Doug Bandow sits down with Ivan Bakanov, Zelensky's chief of staff and party head, to talk about the way forward.
Eline Rosenhart, Amer. Interest
The persistence of Sudan's protesters has already toppled its dictator. But will they succeed where the Egyptians and Libyans failed?
Ia Meurmishvili, CEPA
It's Time to Press Russia to Implement a Ceasefire with Georgia
Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy
Meeting Kim Jong Un may be the Russian leader's latest effort to undermine the Americans.
Ronald Tiersky, RealClearWorld
Donald Kirk, SCMP
The South Korean leader's strategy for bringing North Korea to negotiations has included silence on Kim Jong-un's ruthlessness and rights abuses, which could jeopardise South Koreans' hard-won rights.
Michael McFaul with Michael Hirsh, Foreign Policy
The money trail is the most important part of the unanswered questions," says former U.S. Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Trump gave Mueller a steady stream of ammunition. Imagine if the president had just fired his FBI director immediately and kept his mouth shut.
Christopher Buskirk, NYTimes
After Trump's vindication, the liberal media and its allies in government should face a reckoning. I'm not holding my breath.
David Bossie, Fox News
As partisan Democrats and the liberal media hyperventilate over Attorney General William Barr's release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report Thursday, they're willfully ignoring the fact that they already know what the report concludes: Two years and $35 million was spent investigating a lie.
Xander Snyder, Geopolitical Futures
Over the past year, many observers have suggested that Russia and Turkey appear to be setting their historical differences aside and building an unlikely but mutually beneficial alliance. As evidence, they would point to Russia's tacit approval of Turkish operations against Kurdish militias in northern Syria, their cooperation in creating a demilitarized zone in Idlib,
Dan Balz, WaPo
The report shows a pattern of behavior outside the norms of the Oval Office, even if Barr concludes there was no obstruction of justice.
Charles Sykes, The Bulwark
Now we know why the pre-spin was so important for Trump World. While the Mueller report does not find evidence of a criminal conspiracy between the Russians and the Trump campaign, the picture it paints is, frankly, devastating: its narrative
Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
Recognizing that President Trump now views their nuclear negotiations through the prism of a personal friendship rather than a policy disagreement, Kim Jong Un is defeating Trump's disarmament interest while also avoiding U.S. use of military force.
Dalibor Rohac, The American Interest
Sometimes, old concepts are simply no longer useful.
Austin Bay, Strategy Page
Venezuela's slide to chaotic penury and violence continues. Socialist dictator Nicolas Maduro and his government ought to resign in shame, but caudillos and their cronies inevitably attempt to cling to power, no matter the suffering they inflict.
Uri Friedman & Kathy Gilsinan, The Atlantic
The administration is pressuring other countries to tighten the noose on Nicols Maduro. But his backers have the upper hand.
