Valerie Hopkins, Financial Times
The aftershock of a diplomatic earthquake over accession will take time to subside.
Sen. Marco Rubio, Washington Examiner
Earlier this month, the Taiwanese people reelected President Tsai Ing-wen to office with historic levels of support. President Tsai’s dedication to defending Taiwan in the face of constant hostility from the mainland Chinese Communist Party is inspiring. Taiwan has once again demonstrated that it is a model democracy in the Indo-Pacific: free, open, and a strong partner of its regional allies and the United States.
Adam Entous & Evan Osnos, New Yorker
A new frontier in the use of assassination.
Edward Wong, New York Times
WASHINGTON — Nearly two decades after the fall of the World Trade Center and the attack on the Pentagon, American troops continue to wage war in Iraq,
Thorsten Benner, FP
London’s justification for cooperating with the Chinese telecommunications company is riddled with obvious contradictions.
Yascha Mounk, The Atlantic
It isn’t sufficiently democratic, and there’s no push to penalize authoritarian member states.
Taisu Zhang, ChinaFile
month into the coronavirus epidemic that has swept across China, the details of the Chinese government’s political and administrative response remain highly ambiguous. Reports of information suppression and general mismanagement by the Wuhan city authorities have swirled around the Chinese Internet for well over a week by this point, but relatively few concrete facts can be confirmed. What has been unmistakable,...
Romain Leick, Der Spiegel
With its tough and defiant approach to the United Kingdom, Europe is partly responsible for the country’s departure from the EU. But as it enters a post-Brexit era, it can’t afford to keep Britain at a distance.
Tom McTague, The Atlantic
For decades, the country has struggled with the challenge facing the modern nation-state: how to balance control and influence.
Kaushik Basu, Project Syndicate
The World Bank has warned that a massive debt wave is building worldwide. There is no telling who will be hit the hardest, but if vulnerable countries, from the United Kingdom to India, do not act soon, they may face severe economic damage.
Batu Kutelia & Vasil Sikharulidze, The American Interest
The country of Georgia is at an unhappy crossroads, with its institutions increasingly under the thumb of a single man. The United States can and should apply more pressure.
Simon Tisdall, Guardian
Turkey’s president casts himself as the champion of a militant pan-Islamic revival – and is proving a thorn in the side of enemies and allies alike.
Mustafa Batman, Yale Global
Conflicts in the Middle East attract interventions by regional powers. The Turkish parliament’s approval of troop deployment to assist one side in the Libyan civil conflict reveals some themes, explains Mustafa Batman, an International Fox Fellow at Yale University. Turkey’s involvement in Libya, like many in the region, centers on oil and began with a signed agreement on maritime boundaries with Libya – a...
Caroline Rose, Geopolitical Futures
This week, the United Kingdom departs the European Union. For nearly three years the world has watched London exhaust itself over the political deadlock, delayed departure timelines, referendum propositions, and changes of political leadership. The world is well aware of what Brexit could mean for the U.K. and international markets, yet less has been said about what it will mean for the geopolitics of Europe.
Arif Rafiq, National Interest
America is dangerously emboldening India’s Hindu nationalist government as it nears the point of no return. Modi, whose term ends in 2024, could be succeeded by someone far more extreme.
Ketan Mehta, The Diplomat
New Delhi has historically paid little attention to Latin America and the Caribbean. Will Bolsonaro’s visit spark a change?
Vincent Geloso, AIER
First, it is necessary to point that pandemics have, since the 19th century, fallen in importance. For example, a 2006 article in Emerging Infectious Diseasescompared the influenza epidemics of 1918, 1951, 1957 and 1968 in England, Wales, Canada and the United States and found that death rates at each outbreak kept falling relative to the previous one.
Jacopo Barigazzi, Politico EU
Brexiteers see Brussels as an occupying power — but it is one crafted to a large extent in Britain's own image.
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