Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Times of London
Dear Donald, The date of the UK exit from the EU, October 31, is fast approaching. I very much hope that we will be leaving with a deal. You have my personal commitment that this government will...
Thomson & Guzman, Bloom.
Pete Sweeney, Reuters
HONG KONG (Reuters Breakingviews) - Twitter deserves a follow for muting and blocking China. The U.S. social network suspended state-backed accounts trying to subvert protests in Hong Kong. It also will stop accepting ads from government-controlled media. Beijing's wedge issue provides a good opportunity for Facebook, YouTube and others to reconsider profiting from propaganda.
Simon Jenkins, Guardian
Today??s speech was Corbyn??s chance to muster a coalition against no deal. But all he wants is a general election, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins
Katrin Fraser Katz, TNI
Tokyo and Seoul must also summon their own capacities and resolve to pull themselves out of this bitter impasse that threatens to leave both countries, and the U.S.-backed regional order, depleted. Lessons from periods of bilateral recuperation in the past can help them illuminate pathways for doing so.
Harry Dempsey, Financial Times
President Donald Trump's idea to buy Greenland may be fantasy, but the US has staked an interest in the island's resources in particular, its rare earth minerals.The US recently signed a memorandum to co-operate with the autonomous territory on rare earth mining in order to promote investment in the sector, amid wider efforts to secure alternative supplies after China hinted that it could constrict exports to the US.
Susan Glasser, New Yorker
How he became a heartland evangelicaland the President's most loyal soldier.
Steven Stashwick, Foreign Policy
Artificial islands are becoming more trouble than they're worth.
Twitter
We are disclosing a significant state-backed information operation focused on the situation in Hong Kong, specifically the protest movement and their calls for political change.
Perry Bacon Jr., 538
Where does the 2020 Democratic field stand on foreign policy?
Douglas Carswell, CapX
What, ministers asked their civil servants, might happen if the UK were to leave the EU without a deal? What would be the best and the worst-case scenarios? So off their civil servants went, preparing a report which outlined precisely that; the best and worst case as to what might happen. This report into the
Dirk Kurbjuweit, Der Spiegel
In Hong Kong, protesters are courageously fighting for democracy, rule of law and human rights -- values that the West used to promote. But not anymore, showing just how dramatically the world order has changed.
Jacopo Barigazzi, Politico EU
The League leader's plan to become prime minister is looking less and less certain.
Eric Li, American Affairs Journal
If any political concept could be said to have universal appeal, it would have to be the rule of law. Virtually no government rejects the idea of the rule of law. On the contrary, most, if not all, governments claim to seek its realization. In 1992, the World Bank officially deemed the rule of law
Mica Barreto Soares, Lowy Interpreter
What does development look like, two decades after starting over?
Christian Chan & Frendi Li, SCMP
Three months in, people on both sides of the divide are making unfair generalisations, dehumanising each other and deepening the conflict. The city badly needs to take a break and move away from destructive, emotional behaviour.
Kevin Williamson, National Review
Some errors cost more than others, but we never recognize them as errors until it's too late.
