Wang Huiyao, Nikkei Asian Review
Government committed to multilateral approach to global challenges
Doug Bandow, The American Conservative
Though the communist nation has come a long way, Xi Jinping is threatening to bring back the horror of that era.
Amos Harel, Haaretz
A year and half after Trump pulled out from the nuclear accord, the U.S. president is courting Rohani, Netanyahu is entangled in his legal woes and the Saudi crown prince is leading a feeble policy.
John Krzyzaniak, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The hi-tech process can confirm the authenticity of the nuclear warhead without giving away other information about its design or composition.
Emily Badger et al, New York Times
Four days at a resort outside Dallas, talking politics, with little bickering and no partisan labels. Here's what they learned.
Rajan Menon, TomDispatch
Hypersonic weapons close in on their targets at a minimum speed of Mach 5, five times the speed of sound or 3,836.4 miles an hour. They are among the latest entrants in an arms competition that has embroiled the United States for generations, first with the Soviet Union, today with China and Russia. Pentagon officials tout the potential of such weaponry and the largest arms manufacturers are totally gung-ho on the subject. No surprise there. They stand to make staggering sums from building them... Читать дальше...
Jonathan Turley, The Hill
The attorney general did nothing other than official business in his calls with foreign leaders.
Susan Rice, New York Times
Almost everything about President Trump's conversation with Ukraine's president violated protocol.
Robin Wright, New Yorker
The cold-blooded killing of the journalist and Saudi critic, a year ago on Wednesday, has intensified doubts in Congress about the kingdom, at a moment when it needs allies.
F. Serrano, WPR
The first round of Tunisia's presidential election underlined a critical fact about the country's fraught democratic transition: Tunisians have had enough of their post-revolution politicians. This was made clear not only by the number of people who skipped the mid-September vote altogether, but by the choices made by those who opted to have a say.
R. Maxwell Bone & Akem Kelvin Nkwain, AA
President Biya could have outlined a new plan to address the Anglophone crisis. Instead, he announced talks, beginning today, that are doomed to fail.
Aaron David Miller & Richard Sokolsky, NPR
Saudi Arabia's campaign of denial would never have gotten off the ground had it not been for the Trump administration's support over the past year, say former State Department officials.
Economist
The trade dispute will not end there
G. Monbiot, Guardian
The language of violence and outrage is dominating our discourse. To defeat it, we must learn not to respond in kind, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
Chloe Cornish, Financial Times
This summer, a pair of Syrian brothers journeyed across Europe. Their story did not begin with a rubber dinghy afloat on the Aegean and a scramble for safety on to a Greek island: a well-worn route for many Syrian refugees fleeing a conflict that has lasted eight years and taken an estimated half a million lives.Instead, these brothers landed in Cannes; their transportation, a plane, then a pair of Ferraris; their extravagances documented on social media and culminating on the party island of Mykonos.
Stephen Marche, The Atlantic
Canadian progressives have to decide whether they care more about Justin Trudeau's policy achievements or his offensive style.
Wee Kek Koon, SCMP
A quick look back at history reminds us of those times the Chinese were not only aggressors but occupier.
George Will, Japan Times
South Koreans live with an existential threat, one that President Moon Jae-in minimizes and that events might be maximizing.
