Janosch Delcker, Politico EU
The fight against online hate speech runs into trouble: privacy.
Green & Park, CSIS
From the Editor The Korea Public Square is a forum for expert discussion on issues related to Korea's past, present, and future. The CSIS Korea Chair hosts this series for open dialogue on issues of importance to Korea and its future in the region. Experts, journalists, scholars, and opinion leaders are invited to engage in featured discussions. In the third Korea Public
Richard Haass, Project Syndicate
The assassination of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin 25 years ago by a right-wing Jewish extremist almost certainly was a turning point in the Middle East. A quarter-century later, Rabin's goal of a separate Palestinian state remains the only option that can ensure Israel's future as both Jewish and democratic.
William Shriver, National Interest
Deep-seated tensions between India and Pakistan continue to grow. The different ways the divide manifests itself can be seen through the polar opposite ways Pakistan and India interact with China.
Fiona Hill, New York Times
Moscow’s operatives did not invent our crude tribal politics; they just exploited them.
Joshua Kucera, EurasiaNet
Jamestown Foundation
Fierce fighting and shelling erupted again between Armenia and Azerbaijan on September 27, for the second time in three months. The latest clashes, occurring in the Armenia-occupied Azerbaijani region of Nagorno-Karabakh, represent the most serious bout of violence in this internationally recognized Azerbaijani territory since 2016. The three-decades-old conflict has grown more explosive in recent years due to growing frustration with the deadlocked international mediation... Читать дальше...
Kathrin Hille, Financial Times
US pressure and the pandemic are forcing many companies to rethink their Chinese manufacturing operations
Roger Boyes, Times of London
Chinese hostility to countries offering Hongkongers refuge is growing — and heading our way
Kori Schake et al, AEI
The U.S. and allies can break Beijing’s monopoly on elements vital to electronics and national defense.
Carisa Nietsche et al, CNAS
China’s penetration of Europe through its high-tech capabilities and low-tech acquisition of ports and rail lines can pose problems for NATO, including slowing military mobility, providing Beijing (and possibly Russia, at some point) with intelligence on allied force movements, and compromising NATO command and control. Undue Chinese influence in some allied capitals can also be used to coerce those governments from joining consensus at NATO on issues considered inimical to Chinese (or Russian) interests. Читать дальше...
Rafael Behr, Guardian
The prime minister barely mentioned Europe or the pandemic, but looked to a distant future where all is magically resolved
Nick Tyrone, Spectator
The main thing to say about Boris Johnson’s speech at this year’s online Tory conference is that it captures the present mood of the Conservative party almost perfectly. The problem with that is, that mood is one of confusion and soul searching about what the Conservative party actually exists to do.
Hamdi Malik, War on the Rocks
The Americans begged us to only stop firing Ashtar rockets at their bases.” Jaafar al-Husseini, the military spokesman for the Iraqi Shia militia Kata’ib Hizballah, was talking about attacking U.S. forces in Iraq before they left the country in 2011. While uttering these remarks in a February 2018 TV interview, he looked directly to the camera, as if to seem more assertive. Since then he has threatened U.S. forces on numerous occasions. The
Nikolas Gvosdev, WP Review
Rather than cooperate to defeat a pandemic, states are either treating the coronavirus as an irritating distraction, or they have concluded that their opponents and competitors will suffer more from it, so this is the time to press their advantage. Why has COVID-19 accelerated international competition?
D. Sagramoso, MT
Radical changes in the dynamics of the region over the past 25 years mean international actors have divided interests.
Christopher Clark, London Review of Books
Ihate the war and all that it brings: the killing, the pain, the piggishness, the pillaging, the corpses, the amputations, the dead horses – not to forget the rape,’ the Austrian foreign minister Klemens von Metternich told his friend Wilhelmine von Sagan. War’s only positive feature, he observed, was its ability to numb the senses to the immense misery it caused. The congress that drew up the postwar peace settlement at Vienna in 1814-15...
