Andrew Beatty & Samuel Reeves, AFP
Muslims who escaped China's crackdown in Xinjiang still live in fear, saying new homes abroad and even Western passports afford them no protection against a state-driven global campaign of intimidation.
F. Adkins & S. Hibbard, War on the Rocks
If you want a vision of the future, imagine a thousand bots screaming from a human face forever (apologies to George Orwell). As U.S. policymakers
David French, Nat'l Review
We need all the tools we can muster legal, rhetorical, financial, and cultural.
Amb. Harry Harris with JoongAng Daily
U.S. Ambassador to South Korea Harry Harris said Seoul has already made its choice in the ongoing trade dispute between the United States and China - by virtue of its alliance with Washington.In an exclusive interview at his residence in central
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
Last week, it was widely reported that in the first half of 2019 Mexico replaced China as the United States' top trade partner. China is now in third place, while Canada is in second. There has been a great deal of discussion in the media about what this means for U.S.-China economic relations. Much less attention has been devoted to what this new alignment means for economic relations within North America.A Third World Country?The importance of U.S.-Mexico trade may surprise some. Читать дальше...
Kuni Miyake, Japan Times
Japan and South Korea made need a few more decades before reaching a true rapprochement.
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
Forty years of prosperity in the region are now under threat.
William Pesek, Nikkei
Everything that can go wrong in global system is going wrong
E. Clancy, NRO
An interview with Archbishop Bashar Warda of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Erbil
Noah Barkin, The Atlantic
Because of the country's tortured 20th-century history, its struggle to forge policies to support its veterans is in many ways unique.
A. Soufan, NYT
We can??t fight domestic terror groups efficiently until the law treats them the way we treat foreign ones.
Rosa Schwartzburg, Guardian
This conspiracy theory is influencing killers from Germany to New Zealand and now, it seems, El Paso
Mark Manantan, The Diplomat
China's alleged cyberattacks come amid rising sentiments in the Philippines over the South China Sea disputes.
A. Dapiran, NS
For almost two months, a wave of anti-government protests have rocked Hong Kong. Initially sparked by a government proposal to introduce a law that would allow the extradition of criminal suspects to stand trial in mainland Chinese courts, the protests have morphed into a broader pro-democracy movement, demanding greater government accountability and universal suffrage. Protests have largely been driven by young activists, who have developed and adapted their strategies during weekly protests and clashes with police... Читать дальше...
John D. Davidson, Federalist
Trump doesn't have a monopoly on divisive rhetoric. It's time for the left to reckon with its role in sowing division and racial discord.
Ihor Kabanenko, Jamestown Foundation
A Russian commercial tanker named Nika Spirit entered the Ukrainian port of Izmail on July 24. However, using the EQUASIS international information system, Ukraine identified the cargo ship as the vessel (at that point named the Neyma) that had blocked the Kerch Strait on November 25, 2018. During that incident, three Ukrainian Navy ships with 24 crew members on board
Gordon Chang, National Interest
In Hong Kong, revolution is in the air. What started out as an unexpectedly large demonstration in late April against a piece of legislationan extradition billhas become a call for democracy in the territory as well as independence from China and the end of communism on Chinese soil.
Naomi Chazan, Times of Israel
With a clearly apparent outcome, the campaign is tiresome, superfluous, and inevitable -- but the vote isn't over, after all, and the results may yet surprise us
Pankaj Mishra, Bloomberg View
Brash action now might please diehards but will ultimately undermine their larger project.
Ronald Bailey, Reason
Pestilence, war, famine, and death are all on the decline.
Amitabh Mattoo, The Hindu
The new doctrine will have to persuade Jammu and Kashmir that greater integration with India holds promise
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, Indian Express
BJP thinks it is going to Indianise Kashmir. Instead, we will see, potentially, the Kashmirisation of India.
