Ivan Eland, TAC
Instead of relief, we get histrionics from the foreign policy establishment.
Duncan Bartlett, The Diplomat
Beijing’s plan to clamp down on Hong Kong has angered politicians of all persuasions in Britain. Meanwhile, China is threatening revenge for U.K. “interference.”
Abdallah Fayyad, The Atlantic
T. Shaheen, NRO
Beijing’s lack of transparency and veracity around its handling of the coronavirus is a factor in this steep decline in favorability.
Philip Gordon, CFR
President Donald J. Trump’s order to withdraw nearly ten thousand U.S. troops from Germany betrays a close ally, undermines confidence in Washington, and makes Europe and the United States less safe.
David Gardner, Financial Times
The Turkish leader is meeting frustrating setbacks both at home and abroad
Al Monitor
The top US military commander for operations in the Middle East said that China’s economic influence in the Middle East may one day pose a greater challenge to US strategic interests than Russia in the region, even as the Kremlin seeks a wider military presence in Syria and Libya.
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Judy Polumbaum, ChinaFile
In my childhood, they were the Red Chinese. In my husband’s upbringing, we were the American imperialists. U.S.-China reconciliation after ping-pong diplomacy enabled us to meet and marry 40 years ago. Those of us with a foot in each world find the renewed hostilities of the Donald Trump-Xi Jinping era especially dispiriting and disruptive.
Christopher Hill, The Hill
The recent North Korean action to halt all contact with the Republic of Korea is part of a longer arc, whose intended azimuth is always predictable: delegitimize the Seoul government, regardless of which party is in power, and reassure the North Korean people that they continue to carry the torch of Korea-ism, not the highly successful country to their south.
David Graham & Peter Collignon, Conversation
If a two-year-old child living in poverty in India or Bangladesh gets sick with a common bacterial infection, there is more than a 50% chance an antibiotic treatment will fail. Somehow the child has acquired an antibiotic resistant infection – even to drugs to which they may never have been exposed. How?
Kate Conger, NYT
The company said the latest misinformation effort came with a new wrinkle: extolling the Chinese government’s response to the coronavirus outbreak.
Ties Dams Et al, Clingendael
Above all, China shows the power of presence by claiming a seat at the table in the Arctic Council and by investing in strategic sectors and diplomatic relations with Arctic states. Europe's challenge will be to re-engage with Iceland and Greenland, and China's presence there, in a similar multi-layered way, coordinating short-, medium- and long-term strategies.
Graham Allison, National Interest
As relations between the United States and China worsen over the months ahead, could Beijing decide to try to make Taiwan the solution to its advanced semiconductor problem?
