Aaron David Miller, Carnegie
After the second general election in a year, Israeli politics are in flux amid another potential stalemate. What will happen now?
Reid Standish, Atlantic
The Khorgos Gateway was once touted as one of the most ambitious projects in the Belt and Road Initiative, but it has come to represent the limits of Beijing's global push.
Seth Frantzman, National Review
American policymakers need to keep their eye on the foreign-policy ball, especially in the Middle East.
A. Sarin, Quillette
On July 7, a young man from China crossed the border into Hong Kong, found the nearest KFC, and locked himself in the bathroom. He took out a pen and a paper sign, trembling at the thought of how his life was about to change. I come from the mainland, he wrote. Thank you, Hongkongers! Don't give up, fight for freedom! Then he joined the protesters marching from Tsim Sha Tsui to West Kowloon, and held up his sign. When he returned to China the police arrested him, stripped him naked... Читать дальше...
David Harsanyi, The Federalist
No government has murdered, tortured, imprisoned and terrorized more of its own people than communist China, and it's not even close.
Jonathan D.T. Ward, Proceedings
The United States must understand how China sees its maritime defensive frontiers.
Doug Bandow, National Interest
Kim Jong-un must consider the possibility that Donald Trump could eventually be impeached and removed from office or acquitted yet defeated in 2020. Why should he invest his time in reaching an accord if it is unlikely to survive future political vicissitudes?
Matthew Knott, Sydney Morning Herald
It's a rare day in America when Australia makes headlines. But this story landed with the force of a thunderclap - and inflicted more damage on Donald Trump.
M. McFaul, WP
There's a reason for White House procedures. A president scorns them at his risk.
Gary Schmitt, The Hill
China has been waging a diplomatic war with Taiwan for years, whittling away at the international standing of its neighbor by getting Taiwanese diplomatic allies to switch ties to China. Just this month, the Solomon Islands and the Pacific island of Kiribati broke relations with Taiwan.
Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett, Guardian
The idealists now envisage Wales as an independent nation within a larger federal EU, says Guardian columnist Rhiannon Lucy Cosslett
Van Jackson, War on the Rocks
My entire career, I've watched policy officials make the well-intentioned choice to seek North Korean denuclearization. In the early 2000s, it was a smart
Charles Cooke, National Review
The Ukraine call was bad, but Trump's call with the Australian prime minister is a non-story.
Helen Epstein, New York Review of Books
If Nunavut, the semi-autonomous Canadian territory that is home to roughly 28,000 indigenous Inuit people, were an independent country, it would have the highest suicide rate in the world. The suicide rate is ten times higher than the rest of Canada and seven times higher than the US. When I visited Nunavut's capital, Iqaluit, in July, virtually every Inuit I met had lost at least one relative to suicide, and some recounted as many as five or six family suicides... Читать дальше...
James Dorn, SCMP
China must recall how a lack of openness in goods and ideas handicapped development in the Mao era. This is also a good time to remember those such as Zhao Ziyang, who recognised the need for political and economic reform.
Enzo Reale, New English Review
by Enzo Reale (October 2019) Faces of Russia, Boris Grigoriev, 1923 The vote for the renewal of the Duma (Parliament) in Moscow resulted in a relative surprise: the President party, United Russia, confirmed its a...
Megan Greene, Financial Times
The reforms made during its crisis failed to address competitiveness issues
Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hoping to convince President Donald Trump to accept Turkey's demands about the planned safe zone in northern Syria.
Henry Ruehl, The Diplomat
Despite lofty ambitions, Khorgos is less transformative than its proponents believe and yet it does illustrate some of the promise of the BRI.
Ankit Panda, New Republic
Hawks are telling the president to toughen up on Chinese nukes, but their plan might spur a new global atomic arms race.
