George W. Bush Presidential Center
A series of discussions exploring the challenges — and opportunities — facing democracies around the world.
Rym Momtaz et al, Politico EU
https://www.politico.eu/article/beijing-doubles-down-in-eu-propaganda-battle/
Niall Ferguson, Boston Globe
These days we are all a bit like those Japanese fishermen, cowering beneath a giant wave. The wave in question is the pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2 and the deadly disease it can cause, COVID-19.
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T. Madan et al, CF
In the public sphere, though, anti-China sentiment has gone mainstream in a way usually reserved for India’s other rival, Pakistan. Prime-time news segments, if not entire shows, detail China’s role, and memes are
Ilya Klishin, Moscow Times
Many find it hard to care that the authorities are strangling Vedomosti.
A. Higgins, NYT
The discovery by Yuri Dmitriev, after years of searching, “has clearly made some people very uncomfortable,” his daughter says.
Carl Bildt with Kurt Volker, RealClearWorld
As the world still struggles with the immediate impacts of COVID-19, it is important to think through the longer-term consequences, and how to address them. To gain insights on these longer-term issues, RCW Editor-at-Large and BGR Senior International Advisor Kurt Volker
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
How to deal with the economic costs of the coronavirus is dividing the eurozone countries once again.
Noah Rothman, Commentary
"What if we could just be China for a day,” New York Timescolumnist Tom Friedman famously mused. By short-circuiting the democratic legal and social conventions that buttress any liberal society, he speculated, so much good technocratic governance could be imposed on the unsophisticated masses. But one of the many problems with this philosophical outlook is that the Great Work cannot be completed in a day. Perfecting the human condition is a task without end, which... Читать дальше...
Stephen Roach, Project Syndicate
From an unnecessary trade war to an increasingly desperate coronavirus war, two angry countries are trapped in a blame game with no easy way out. Now more than ever, both sides need to contemplate the economic and geopolitical consequences of a full rupture.
Shihoko Goto, Globalist
South Korea has been winning over international public opinion as a successful role model in keeping the coronavirus outbreak under control. It achieved this with its extensive testing and monitoring policies.
Jan-Werner Müller, Guardian
Governors, officials and Democrats should start proposing concrete plans to deal with the crisis. It’s time to build a ‘parallel polis’
Darel Paul, The American Conservative
Gov. Newsom's nation state is moving toward some kind of independence and the rest of the country should be willing to let it go.
William Drozdiak, Politico EU
French president’s moment of truth for Europe has arrived with sudden and shocking morbidity.
Gideon Rachman, FT
Several long-running conflicts are edging towards a temporary halt to hostilities.
Sylvain Broyer, Project Syndicate
Although the sudden stop imposed by COVID-19 is having far-reaching consequences for European Union economies, the EU's policy response has already far surpassed its efforts to mitigate past crises. Europe may not be out of the woods yet, but it is clearly on the right path.
Dimitri Simes, National Interest
The modern world faces a perfect storm: the combination of a deadly and highly infectious virus, an emerging worldwide economic depression, the collapse of global governance, and an absence of coordinated and effective international response. Yet in this crisis there is also an opportunity.
Michael Auslin, Hoover
Even before the outbreak of the novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China late last year, the Sino-U.S. relationship had been in a period of flux. Since coming to office in 2017, President Trump made rebalancing ties with China the centerpiece of his foreign policy. Claiming that it would no longer be business as usual with Beijing, Trump began to respond more forcefully to what he had long claimed were unfair Chinese trade practices, cyberespionage, military intimidation, and global propaganda campaigns. Читать дальше...
