Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Silicon Valley's social-media giants have remade the world as their walled garden.
S. Walt, FP
Why most Americans are right about foreign policy, and David Brooks is wrong.
David Fickling, Bloom. View
Scoring citizens' behaviors can spark dystopian fears. In practice, such programs are often disorganized and unthreatening.
Richard Downie, World Politics Review
On June 3, the eve of the 30th anniversary of China's bloody dispersal of demonstrators in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Sudan's military authorities launched their own massacre of unarmed pro-democracy protesters. State-linked paramilitaries attacked a peaceful sit-in in the capital, Khartoum, claiming, without proof, that it had been infiltrated by drug dealers and criminals. More than 100 people were killed, according to doctors' groups in Khartoum. Scores of bodies were dumped into the Nile River... Читать дальше...
Leonid Bershidsky, B-View
The real message U.S. officials are sending to Moscow is that Russia can be attacked without White House authorization.
Walter Haynes, WOTR
Germany's fitful attempts to grow into its relative heft in European institutions remain tortuous. There is no country that could do more to contribute to
Simon Wren-Lewis, New Statesman
The spoon that Johnson and his party want to bend, or deny the existence of, is pluralist democracy itself. It will happen slowly, each stage seemingly not so bad because it happens with a joke and a smile. We can only hope that while most Conservative members want to live in a world where there is no spoon, enough voters prefer changing the real world in ways that enhance, rather than diminish, our democracy.
Ivan Rogers, Spectator
I must confess that, with denial, delusion-mongering and deception still rampant across British politics on all sides, I might add I do find this [speaking today] quite a formidable challenge! I
Jeffrey Wilson, Lowy Interpreter
Bojan Stojkovski, Foreign Policy
Chinese facial recognition software has arrived in Serbia. It confirms the West's worst fears about Huawei.
Girish Luthra, Indian Express
There is an increasing recognition of the importance of maritime security, maritime commons and cooperation. In the last few years, almost every joint or vision statement at the end of summit-level talks or meeting between major maritime powers accords high priority to maritime security and stability.
Sophie Boisseau du Rocher, Diplomat
As ASEAN gets closer to finally releasing its vision for the Indo-Pacific, its role in the region hangs in the balance.
A. Kumar Sen, AC
Chinese President Xi Jinping's first state visit to North Korea this week will underscore Beijing's clout in Pyongyang and, by doing so, Xi may be looking to re-energize a US effort to denuclearize the Korean Peninsula and gain leverage in stalled US-China trade negotiations.
Rep. Mike Gallagher, RealClearWorld
George Friedman, GPF
Massive demonstrations have erupted in Hong Kong, triggered by a proposed new law that would make it much easier to transfer residents of Hong Kong to Chinese custody. Hong Kong is part of China, but it has a different legal system, derived from its past as a British colony, and many Hongkongers see the law as intended to short-circuit their rights from the colonial period and make them subject to Chinese laws, which limit the rights of the accused.
