Bobby Moroe , Daily Maverick
Writing from my post as a diplomat in Abuja, Nigeria, I think back on my life growing up in Soweto – how physical human contact was the very fabric of our society. And I wonder if life at home, and everywhere, will ever be normal again.
Yisreal Medad & Eli Pollak, Jerusalem Post
Many parts of the Israeli media, we find, are directly and indirectly using scare tactics to try and prevent implementation of the Israel law east of the Green Line.
Alexandra Rojkov & Raniah Salloum, Spiegel
Beginning July 1, the Israeli government, led by Benjamin Netanyahu, could begin the process of annexing parts of the West Bank, despite this being a violation of international law. For many inhabitants of the region, their future is at stake.
R. Reeves & M. Akyol, FP
The Turkish president wants to turn Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia back into a mosque. Destroying its dual Orthodox-Islamic heritage would be a blow to religious pluralism and tolerance.
F. Kell, Ch. House
The overturning of the result in the fresh presidential contest sets a bold precedent for the continent, as a process built upon the resilience of democratic institutions and the collective spirit of opposition.
Tony Barber, Financial Times
The president has secured his future rule but he is straining his social contract with the Russian people.
Howard Husock, City Journal
Beijing has now acted to impose a new security law on Hong Kong, turning its back on the “one country, two systems” agreement to which it had committed when the former British colony returned to Chinese control in 1997. Hong Kong will be subject to the same sort of draconian infringements on liberty as mainland China, following a year of street protests demanding just the opposite. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has
Martha Mendoza, AP
Federal authorities in New York on Wednesday seized a shipment of weaves and other beauty accessories suspected to be made out of human hair taken from people locked inside a Chinese internment camp.
Harold James, Project Syndicate
Like the Soviet Union in its final years, the United States is reeling from catastrophic failures of leadership and long-suppressed socioeconomic tensions that have finally boiled over. For the rest of the world, the most important development is that the hegemony of the US dollar may finally be coming to an end.
Yi-Zheng Lian, New York Times
It pays to play the long game against people who want to be free.
Rep. Mark Green, National Interest
Like the Great Wall of generations past, Xi’s Internal Great Wall will continue to keep China behind the rest of the world because a nation that suppresses its own people is not a nation the world can trust to do business fairly.
George Friedman, Geo. Futures
The media exploded late last week with reports that Russia had paid the Taliban bounties to kill U.S. and Afghan troops. The plot was revealed by “spies and commandos” who had, among other things, discovered a large cache of U.S. dollars in a Taliban base and traced it back to Russia. The use of the terms spies and commandos is a bit odd, as they are not terms that American intelligence would normally use; U.S. operatives are not normally referred to as spies... Читать дальше...
Rick Moran, PJ Media
The new Beijing-backed security law went into effect in Hong Kong yesterday with immediate consequences. The Hong Kong police announced the first arrest relating directly to the new national security act.
Tatyana Stanovaya, Moscow Times
The Russian president is banning his associates from looking around for a successor.
John McLaughlin, Ozy
While attending the annual international security conference in Munich earlier this year, I heard Trump administration officials tell a skeptical audience that the United States was still leading the world. A European official turned to me and said: “They should substitute ‘v’ for ‘d,’ because it feels more often like this administration is leaving the world.”
A. Zenz, FP
Ethnic minorities are being targeted by family planning departments as reproduction restrictions loosen on Han Chinese.
Ron Shine, CapX
At the height of the protests in Hong Kong there were fears that the Xi administration would send in the troops, that we might see a 21st century rerun of Tiananmen Square.
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Timothy Mclaughlin, The Atlantic
With a far-reaching national-security law, overlords in a distant capital are again making decisions on the city’s behalf.
Dominique Moisi, Worldcrunch
Beijing seems to be abandoning the very strategy that allowed it to not only survive the collapse of the USSR, but also prosper.
John Lichfield, Politico EU
President Emmanuel Macron had a bad night, but so did far-right leader Marine Le Pen.
