Sina Toossi, Foreign Affairs
Ali Hashem, Al Monitor
Kent Wang, National Interest
Will the pandemic be an opportunity for cross-strait rapprochement or otherwise be hostility?
Jim Geraghty, National Review
On the menu today: one long deep dive into the Fox News report that unnamed “sources” are increasingly confident that the origin of this virus is an accidental release or infection from a laboratory, and how every possible transmission path paints the Chinese government as incredibly reckless and unconcerned about the risk to human life around the world.
Matthew Lynn, Spectator
Emmanuel Macron is, for all his carefully polished image as a radical moderniser (and with the possible exception of not having multiple mistresses), a very traditional French president. He protects domestic industries, especially if they happen to manufacture cars or guns. He subsidises farmers, sends soldiers to small African states, and accumulates more and more debt. Oh, and also in keeping with tradition, he gives interviews to either the Financial Times or the
Pres. Emmanuel Macron with Financial Times
France’s president believes the coronavirus pandemic will transform capitalism — but leaders need to act with humility
H.R. McMaster, The Atlantic
On November 8, 2017, Air Force One touched down in Beijing, marking the start of a state visit hosted by China’s president and Communist Party chairman, Xi Jinping. From my first day on the job as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser, China had been a top priority. The country figured prominently in what President Barack Obama had identified for his successor as the biggest immediate problem the new administration would face—what to do about North Korea’s nuclear and missile programs. Читать дальше...
