Zhou Xin, SCMP
China’s new urbanisation strategy focuses on city clusters, which will improve economic efficiency and prevent white elephant infrastructure projects.
C. Eckner, Spect.
Germany has been in uproar over the events that unfolded this Saturday, when 38,000 protesters gathered in Berlin and clashed with the police. The organisers of the gathering, entitled Umdenken (Rethinking), claimed they wanted to show their frustration at government measures to contain the spread o...
Claire Felter, Council on Foreign Relations
The search to find a vaccine for the new coronavirus is well underway. Governments and researchers are aiming to provide billions of people with immunity in eighteen months or less, which would be unprecedented.
Edward Lucas, Times of London
The Chinese foreign minister’s damage-limitation tour shows the folly of sucking up to tyranny.
Bill Emmott, Project Syndicate
Raghida Dergham, The National
The notion that the Trump administration is distracted is wrong, given the flurry of activity in the region
Barbara Moens, Politico EU
If we don’t have a breakthrough in the week of September 7, it’s hard to see how we can still avoid a disaster,’ says one EU official.
Sheena Greitens et al, ChinaFile
As an extraordinarily fraught school year begins, the study of China on U.S. campuses (or their new virtual equivalents), as well as China's role in university life more broadly, has recently become a subject of scrutiny and debate. What is the future of China studies in the United States given this changing environment? How are recent politics in China and in China's
Chang Feng-lin, Taipei Times
According to a report published on Aug. 21 in the Liberty Times (the sister paper of the Taipei Times), NT$100 million (US$3.4 million) of next year's NT$366.8 billion defense budget has been set aside to upgrade six US-made E-2K Hawkeye early-warning aircraft. Once completed, the aircraft would be of an equivalent specification to the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye planes in service on US Navy carriers. The primary difference between E-2D Advanced Hawkeyes and the older E-2K Hawkeyes is the new AN/APY-9 radar... Читать дальше...
Nikolai Petrov, Moscow Times
Polls show that the average Russian is also unwilling to let go of Aleksander Lukashenko.
Sultan al-Kanj, Al Monitor
Russia is conducting air raids on several areas in Idlib while the Syrian government shells de-escalation zones.
Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/08/syria-russia-airstrikes-idlib-opposition-reinforce-fronts.html#ixzz6WejsXZRQ
Max Seddon & Henry Foy, Financial Times
The anti-corruption activist — now in a coma in Berlin — was campaigning against Vladimir Putin when he was poisoned
Branko Milanovic, Foreign Affairs
Even as Globalization Hurts Middle-Class Westerners
Mark Perry, Amer. Conservative
On July 23, in the midst of the worst pandemic since the Spanish flu ravaged the United States in 1918, Mike Pompeo appeared at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, to give his most important foreign policy speech as secretary of state. Standing in the bright California sun in front of Nixon’s boyhood home, Pompeo didn’t disappoint. While praising Nixon’s foreign policy prowess, and particularly his 1972 opening to China... Читать дальше...
Pavel Lokshin, Worldcrunch
BERLIN — Over the past two weeks, since the allegations of election rigging in Belarus, there have been calls for Germany to open a dialogue with Russia. As if the country with the world's largest nuclear arsenal and a permanent seat in the UN Security Council is nothing more than a wayward child that Germany needs to bring into line.
Michael Auslin, FP
The United States hasn’t had to worry about Japan in nearly a decade. Now it might have to start.
