Michael Shurkin, War on the Rocks
There are three reasons Americans should study French military strategy. The first is that the French military has an intellectual tradition that stretches back at least to the 18th century, and more than a few French military theorists draw on that tradition and are enriched by it. Their work is sophisticated, and they write well. Second, the disastrous losses that Americans too often associate with the French military and that encourage them to dismiss... Читать дальше...
Scott Lincicome, Reason
The trendy view of U.S.–China economic engagement lends itself to policy “fixes” that could make things worse, not better, for both the United States and the world.
Con Coughlin, The National
A public spat between members of Israel's security establishment also appears to confirm Tel Aviv's role in the attacks.
J. Miller, Spectator
In Castex, the French President may have found the Obelix tohis Asterix
Isabel Hilton, New Statesman
Driven by mercantilist ambitions, the Cameroons courted China. But now the Conservatives are turning against the rising superpower.
Xi Zhangrun, ChinaFile
In July 2018, the Tsinghua University professor Xu Zhangrun published an unsparing critique of the Chinese Communist Party and its Chairman of Everything, Xi Jinping. Xu warned of the dangers of one-man rule, a sycophantic bureaucracy, putting politics ahead of...
Michael Auslin, Foreign Policy
Critics aside, the administration does have a strategy, and it is based on reciprocity.
John Lee, The Australian
Take with a large grain of salt the diplomatic denials that the 2020 Strategic Defence Update and commitment to spend $270bn on defence across the next decade is all about one country. There are other troubling developments in the region but only China’s coercive turn can account for the dramatic upgrade of our martial mindset, posture and...
Robert Kaplan, Washington Post
The United States has dispatched two aircraft carrier strike groups to the South China Sea to contest China’s creeping annexation of the maritime region. It is one of the bluntest expressions of U.S. hard power in years.
Minxin Pei, Project Syndicate
For the first time since the end of the Cultural Revolution, the Communist Party of China faces a genuine existential threat, mainly because its mindset has led it to commit a series of calamitous strategic errors. And its latest intervention in Hong Kong suggests that it has no intention of changing course.
Nilsu Goren & Dalia Dassa Kaye, Al Monitor
Turkish-US relations, while fraught with tension, must also align with a mutual interest in stability in the Middle East and preventing the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/07/way-forward-turkey-us-gulen-pkk-ypg-syria-russians-s400.html#ixzz6RfhE93RS
G. Ioffe, Jamestown
During the seeming campaign respite, a series of seminal analytical essays sparked a multifaceted debate on the state of the Belarusian presidential race so far. According to Fyodor Lukyanov, an influential Russian political commentator, the events in Belarus are not likely to follow the Ukrainian scenario, because the external actors drew lessons from what occurred in Kyiv six years ago. Furthermore, now, unlike in 2013–2014, those outside actors are immersed in their own problems. Читать дальше...
Pavel Luzin, Riddle
Experts question both the procedure and the results of Russia’s recent vote on constitutional amendments. Officially, 77.92%, or more than 57.7mn people, were in favour of the amendments. 21.27% — more than 23.2mn voters n— were opposed. Turnout reached 67.97%, more than 74.2mn people.
O. Tira, JP
Claims to the contrary were incorrect 40 years ago and today are a gross strategic error.
David Pilling, FT
China, US, Turkey and Saudi Arabia vie for influence amid region’s renaissance
Michael Green & Evan Medeiros, Foreign Affairs
China Tests the Limits of Impunity
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Berlin aims to reenergize commercial links with Beijing amid the coronavirus crisis.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg
