Paul Goodman, Conservative Home
Iain Dale writes today on this site that the Conservatives have had a bad campaigning week. So has Labour. The Tories have had Alan Cairns' resignation; Labour, Tom Watson's. Both parties have stood candidates down, as is the way now, over remarks they've made: a Conservative said in 2014 that women at risk of rape should keep their knickers on; a socialist said this week that Israel is like a child abuser.
C. Miller, BuzzFeed
IT'S NOT THE UKRAINE, SO HELP ME GOD.
J. Freedland, G'dian
We're advised to shelve our angst to stop Brexit. It's painful to be part of a community so easily cast aside, says Guardian columnist Jonathan Freedland
Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post
"30 years on, the enlargement of the EU and NATO ?? even the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 ?? seem much less significant historically than China??s spectacular rise after 1989," wrote historian Niall Ferguson.
Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
There's been scant progress toward establishing impartial, independent judicial systems. The EU isn't helping.
Steven A. Cook, FP
Saudi Arabia's crown prince will take money from investors in the national oil companybut he'll be giving up far more than he thinks.
David Dodwell, SCMP
RCEP is an important assurance that countries remain committed to multi-country liberalisation. India's withdrawal from the pact leave the other 15 members in a quandary and highlights the difficulty of concluding trade deals.
Sophie Pinkham, Foreign Affairs
It needs a partner in peace.
Stanly Johny, The Hindu
The IS will be defeated only when its ideology is overcome in a region free of interventions a tall ask for the moment
David Axe, TNI
The Washington State-based USS Carl Vinson, which launched in 1983, is scheduled to deploy in 2021 to the Pacific region with the new F-35C stealth fighters.
Ruth Ingram, The Diplomat
Social media is starting to convey some signs of life from Xinjiang's disappeared.
Loren DeJonge Schulman, Defense One
We need a way to measure the readiness of our civilian national-security workforce. Then we need to fix it.
Philip Collins, Times of London
Tom Watson does not believe that Jeremy Corbyn should be the prime minister of this country. Tom Watson is training to be a Level 2 fitness instructor. One of these two facts is relevant to his...
Andrei Kolesnikov, Moscow Times
Opinion We should never forget the benefits that Germany's reunification brought to the world.
Hal Brands, Bloomberg
The Kremlin's "escalate to de-escalate" nuclear strategy could easily get out of hand.
PM Pedro Snchez, G'dian
My government will act with restraint and moderation to defend peaceful coexistence, says Pedro Snchez, prime minister of Spain
Foreign Policy
The NATO secretary-general shoots back at the French president, praising the U.S. commitment to the organization and warning of a divided Europe.
Melissa Chan, Atlantic
Thirty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, there is still much to do. That bodes poorly for any potential Korean reunification.
Economist
America is turning its back on the European project. Time to wake up, the French president tells The Economist
Marcel Dirsus, Politico EU
Another four years of Donald Trump will create new divisions on the Continent.
Matthias Gebauer, Der Spiegel
U.S. President Donald Trump has been extremely critical of German defense spending. But in a midterm government report, Finance Minister Olaf Scholz successfully prevented an explicit pledge to increase the defense budget.
