Deccan Chronicle
As many as 5 exit polls projected the BJP-led National Democratic Alliance is all set to retain power at the Centre.
Nick Cohen, Spectator
Protestors on the anti-Brexit marches have sensed an eerie absence. What is it?' I thought back in March as I stood on a soapbox to address an audience so jammed by the weight of numbers on Park Lane
Polly Toynbee, Guardian
In its Brexit delirium, the party is tearing itself apart in public, on an election day
Francis Elliott, Times of London
Theresa May has abandoned her plans to force MPs to vote on her new Brexit deal in the latest sign that she is preparing to quit Downing Street. Tory MPs were told yesterday that the Withdrawal...
Aaron Kliegman, FB
China seeks to destroy any notion that Taiwan is an independent state by delegitimizing the island, isolating it politically, diplomatically, and economically.
John O'Sullivan, NRO
Theresa May is probably on the way out, but the European parliamentary elections suggest a bigger threat is on the horizon for the Conservative party.
David Bercuson, National Post
Canadians find the notion that any part of our Arctic should belong to anyone else, or be an international waterway, repugnant. We are wrong
Graeme Maxton, SCMP
American tech companies want to offer cloud services in China so they can gain access to data on Chinese consumers' preferences. Beijing fears, however, that this allows US firms a way to influence opinions on more controversial subjects.
Latika Bourke, The National
Incumbent prime minister Scott Morrison confounded expectations by winning a majority against supposed favourites Labor
Diliman Abdulkader, National Interest
Surrounded by enemies, the Kurds cannot afford trouble.
Henry Sanderson, FT
In a factory beside a paddy field on the outskirts of a small city in central China, one of the core components of the modern global economy is being produced.
James Hamill, WPR
If South Africa's first democratic election in 1994 provided what observers called a designer outcome in which the three major parties at the time all secured significant prizes, the country's sixth general election in early May was its polar opposite: a vote in which the three principal players all experienced setbacks and had reason to be disappointed. The 1994 electoral outcome helped stabilize the new political dispensation after apartheid. It remains to be seen if this year's... Читать дальше...
Denis Grekov, Riddle
Denis Grekov considers how a weak economy and rising public indebtedness affect ordinary Russians' readiness to protest
Kuni Miyake, Japan Times
University students seem less concerned about war on the Korean Peninsula than their 1970s counterparts even though the chance of conflict is greater.
Alex Massie, CapX
Britain has a ruined prime minister leading a ruined government in a ruined parliament
Yves Leterme & Sam Van der Staak, EU Observer
European voter turnout is in deep crisis. Since the early 2000s, the share of voters in national elections has fallen to 66 percent on average, which means that the birthplace of democracy now ranks below average globally.
Nicholas Kristof, New York Times
??Concentration camps,?? electronic surveillance and persecution are used to repress millions of people of faith.
Victoria Gaytan, GA
With AMLO at the epicenter of his self-proclaimed campaign to personally save Mexico from corruption, Mexican politics are becoming polarized. The loser will likely be not only effectively ending corruption, but Mexican democracy.
Nouriel Roubini, Pro. Syn.
What started as a trade war between the United States and China is quickly escalating into a death match for global economic, technological, and military dominance. If the two countries' leaders cannot manage the defining relationship of the twenty-first century responsibly, the entire world will bear the costs of their failure.
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
It took a human wrecking ball to get China's attention.
