Rasha Abou Jalal, Al Monitor
As the power outage crisis in the Gaza Strip for more than 20 hours per day paralyzes all health care and economic sectors, Gazans await for Israel to allow fuel to enter the enclave to operate their only power plant.
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Helen Thompson, New Statesman
For two decades, cheap labour in China drove consumer prices down. But when goods are produced in a world of fear and geopolitical rivalry, their origins, not just their cost, really matter.
Nikolas Gvosdev, TNI
Will there be much of a reaction at all?
Matshidiso Rebecca Moeti, The National
Eradicating diseases is possible with enough co-operation, the WHO's Africa director explains.
Andrew Lebovich, European Council on Foreign Relations
France, Germany, and Sahel countries launched the Sahel Alliance in 2017 with the aim of bringing together major international donors to better coordinate development assistance and other financing efforts for the region.
Nectar Gan, CNN
Thomas Friedman, NY Times
Germany is a manufacturing superpower that would be a decisive ally, along with the rest of the European Union, in a trade war against China.
Z. Darvas, Bru.
Western European imports from central Europe have fallen dramatically, while imports from China fell much less, and had already recovered to pre-COVID level by April 2020. Central European governments should instigate new measures to foster the transition towards knowledge-intensive economic activities.
Kamran Bokhari, CGP
The recent announcement that the United Arab Emirates was seeking to normalize relations with Israel sent shockwaves through the Arab world, particularly with regard to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But Abu Dhabi’s actions have much less to do with Israel specifically than they do with the UAE’s efforts to try and manage a precarious regional security vacuum, which require a delicate balancing act to stave off pressures from both Iran and Turkey.
Tate Paulette, Conversation
It’s been about five months since I set foot in a bar. Like many of you navigating life in a pandemic, I miss bars. I miss the simple pleasure of sharing a beer with friends. And I know I’m not alone.
Kateryna Busol, Chatham House
A referral of election violence in Belarus to the International Criminal Court could enhance the support for the Belarusian people at other crucial platforms.
Mathew Ha, RCW
North Korea demolished its side of a joint inter-Korean liaison office in June to express its outrage over an anti-regime leaflet campaign led by defectors in South Korea. Since then, Seoul’s leadership has revoked the charitable status licenses of defector-run organizations. Seoul
Edward Lucas, CEPA
Thierry Breton is wrong about Belarus — and about Europe.
Roger Boyes, Times of London
Caught between two dictators, opponents of Lukashenko need to mobilise like Solidarity in 1980.
Muhammed Magassy, Project Syndicate
Africa is becoming a new COVID-19 epicenter. Unless the European Union urgently rethinks its protectionist trade policies, a sharp uptick in food insecurity will turn the COVID-19 crisis into a catastrophe.
Arthur Martirosyan, Russia Matters
Luke Harding, a journalist with The Guardian and a prolific author of books, mostly Russia-related, but also about Julian Assange and Edward Snowden, published his latest saga, “Shadow State: Murder, Mayhem and Russia’s Remaking of the West” as a sequel to his earlier text “Collusion: Secret Meetings, Dirty Money and How Russia Helped Donald Trump Win” (2017), before the release of the Russia report by the Intelligence and Security Committee of the U.K....
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
We have come a long way from the hopes associated with Camp David, “Globalism,” “the end of history,” the end of the First Gulf War in 1991, and the first year of the Arab Spring in 2011 – almost all of it in the wrong direction. From a “realist” perspective, the greater Middle East has deteriorated over time, and in ways that go far beyond its conflicts, competing ideologies and faiths, and the petty power struggles of its ruling elites.
Aykan Erdemir, FDD
The State Department registered its strong objection yesterday to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s hosting of two Hamas leaders in Istanbul on August 22. This is the first time the State Department has called out Turkey’s close relations with and ongoing support for Hamas, a sign the U.S. government’s...
J. Bowlus, WOTR
