Dov Zakheim, National Interest
Alexander Hammond, FEE
The African Union must focus on reducing the overbearing costs of intellectual property across the region.
Sylvie Kauffmann, New York Times
The Libyan revolution of 2011 brought lasting terrorist mayhem across a broad reach of Africa’s former French colonies. Now France needs its allies to help pacify the region — if that can be done.
Uri Friedman, The Atlantic
Jeremy Shapiro, ECFR
With such a smorgasbord of offerings, most people eat the familiar food and leave the conference pleasantly full of the same ideas that they entered with.
C. Shepherd & L. Pitel, FT
Leaked records reveal reasons for internment of Muslims and other minorities in ‘re-education’ camps
Alyssa Ayres, Council on Foreign Relations
India has become an important trading partner for the United States over the past two decades, but the relationship has been marred by long-standing disagreements on everything from dairy products to intellectual property rights protections.
Ivana Stradner, AEI
Chinese investments, Russian weapons, and European aid are pouring into Serbia, putting it at the frontline of the new great power competition. Even Washington has noticed: last month, the Trump administration dispatched its ambassador to Germany there to reengage the region. The EU’s foreign minister followed a week later. It’s clear Europe and the US don’t want a hostile satellite state in the center of Europe. To prevent it, the key is to resolve the Kosovo dispute.
Noah Barkin, FP
Dire American warnings about the threat from Beijing fall on deaf ears at the Munich Security Conference.
David Goldman, Asia Times
Huge intelligence failure has compounded Pentagon’s flip-flop policy and led to key allies refusing to heed Trump’s plea to avoid tech giant’s 5G system.
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Gathering shows US and Europe have very different views on health of transatlantic relations.
Economist
HOW SHOULD European countries position themselves in the growing geopolitical and technological contest between America and China? As allies of America in a new cold war? Or as a third force balancing between the two poles? Such questions hung thick in the air at the Bayerischer Hof hotel in Munich, where world leaders, diplomats and spies gathered for their yearly security-policy jamboree, which ended on February 16th.
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, YaleGlobal
IRVINE: In 1989, residents of cities across the People’s Republic of China took to the streets in massive numbers to demand change. That spring protest wave – often referred to as the “Tiananmen Movement,” in honor of the Beijing plaza that was the site of the biggest rallies – lasted six weeks. During that time, it gripped the attention of audiences around the world, thanks largely to...
Madeleine Kearns, National Review
In 2019, China “celebrated” 70 years of Communist Party rule. China’s economic growth was at the lowest it’s been in three decades. And it faced the added political challenge of the Hong Kong protests, as well as the economic strain of an escalating trade war with the United States. Nevertheless, 2020 brought a more urgent challenge.
Kim Dong-ho, JoongAng Daily
China has expanded at a staggering pace after liberalization. It reached a milestone in 2010 by edging out Japan as No. 2 in GDP. China is projected to pass the United States by 2040. Its role as the global manufacturing base may not be a sole drive behind its stunning rise. Chinese experts point to a growth by state capitalism as the primary engine.
Rory Truex, The Atlantic
Democracy is unlikely to break out in Beijing, but the coronavirus crisis may create an opening for a softer form of authoritarianism.
Centre for European Reform
The conflict in Libya is spiralling out of control despite the recent Berlin conference. Beth Oppenheim and Luigi Scazzieri discuss why Europe has struggled to influence Libya, and how the conflict may evolve.
