Kevin Williamson, National Review
The Europeans did a much better job of controlling the coronavirus than we did, and they don’t want us spreading it there.
Georg Fahrion et al, Der Spiegel
The Galwan Valley in the Himalayas is located at an altitude of 4,000 meters (13,123 feet). It is a remote area where the slopes are covered in snow all year round. Last week, the valley made an appearance on the global political stage. China and India, the two most populous countries on the planet faced off along their -- disputed -- Himalayan border. The exact location of where one country ends and the next begins has long been unsettled. Indeed, the two countries went to war over it in 1962. Читать дальше...
Stephen Roach, Project Syndicate
No country can afford to squander its saving potential – ultimately, the seed-corn of long-term economic growth. That’s true even of the United States, where generations of policymakers have come to regard the long-standing belief in American exceptionalism as though it applied to the laws of economics.
Félix Seijas Rodríguez, Americas Quarterly
A series of authoritarian moves have drawn a muted public response – and not just because of the coronavirus.
Michael Mandelbaum, The American Interest
The Sino-American relationship does have some similarities to the rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union—but also many differences.
Linda Farthing, World Politics Review
When preliminary results in Bolivia’s election last October showed that longtime President Evo Morales had narrowly won a controversial fourth term in office, it provoked a national outcry. The tabulation of the vote count, which initially showed a dead heat, had been halted on Election Day, only to resume a day later with Morales having jumped into the lead. The Organization of American States quickly issued a...
Joshua Meservey, War on the Rocks
Last year, the world’s fifth least-developed country, Burundi, inaugurated a $22 million presidential palace. In Zimbabwe, whose economy the World Bank believes contracted by nearly 8 percent last year, a...
R. Gramer & J. Detsch, FP
Administration officials say they are tired of regular efforts by Capitol Hill to review arms exports to Saudi Arabia and other nations.
I. Krastev & M. Leonard, ECFR
The covid-19 crisis is probably the greatest social experiment of our lives. We do not know when or how it will end. It is still too early to predict how radically it will change the way Europeans see their own societies. But we can already see that the pandemic has transformed the way Europeans look at the world beyond Europe, and – as a consequence – the role of the European Union in their lives
David Herszenhorn, Politico EU
Secretary of state is now ‘excited’ to accept Josep Borrell proposal for dialogue on Beijing.
S. Kaplan, FSJ
Growing pushback from many parts of the world points to the need for rethinking our approach.
Marlene Laruelle, Russia Matters
On July 1, Russian citizens will be voting to approve amendments to the 1993 constitution, proposed by Vladimir Putin in January, planned for a vote in April and postponed to the summer as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. If adopted, the main change will be to allow Putin to stay in power after the end of his second...
