Новости за 08.10.2020

Alexis Mrachek, RealClearWorld

Taipei Times

The Legislative Yuan on Tuesday unanimously passed two Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) resolutions in a rare example of cross-party agreement.

Paul Goble, Jamestown

Since Vladimir Putin became president, Russia’s forests have declined in size by 45 million hectares, some 6 percent of the country’s total. The shrinking forest cover has been the result of the spread of uncontrolled forest fires (80 percent) as well as increased harvesting (20 percent), much of that for export. That distinction between losses from fires and regular cutting, however, is less sharp than one might expect: many Russians allege that some of the fires, especially in Siberia and the Russian Far East... Читать дальше...

Tatiana Stanovaya, Riddle
Tatiana Stanovaya on how dreams of greatness can in fact erode the Russian state

William Gourlay et al, Lowy Interpreter
Tehran capitalised on US mistakes in the Middle East, but its proxy wars and consistently aggressive façade have a cost.

H.A. Hellyer, Foreign Policy

The French president’s talk of a crisis among French Muslims is the latest example of mainstream politicians pandering to the far-right.  

Philip Gordon, Foreign Affairs
As U.S. policymakers contemplate dealing with regime change in the Middle East, they should see the patterns of self-delusion and misjudgment that have time and again made regime change so temptingâ?"and, ultimately, so disastrous.

Emran Feroz, Foreign Policy
Nineteen years ago, the United States began its war in Afghanistan. What is it leaving behind?

Daniel Larison, Am. Cons.

Southeast Asia is a region that the U.S. has largely neglected over the last thirty years, and when it has paid attention it has often pursued policies that have alienated many of the states there. China has steadily built up its economic, diplomatic, and cultural influence throughout the region, and it has strengthened its ties to ethnic Chinese minorities in many of these countries. Today the countries of Southeast Asia want continued economic cooperation with China... Читать дальше...

Michael Young, The National
Amid Lebanon's economic chaos and popular despair, there is little patience left for the group's 'resistance' ideology

Iain MacGillivray, ASPI Strategist

It’s no mystery that the radical changes Turkey has undergone since 2002 can be attributed to prime minister-cum-president Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Adalet ve Kalkinma Partisi (AKP), or Justice and Development Party.

Ido Vock, New Statesman
The flare-up demonstrates what some will characterise as the obsolescence of Cold War era military alliances.

M. Supriatma, EAForum
The Indonesian National Police is now acting as both a security force and political agent, helping to silence critics and persecuting those who threaten the president's power

Caroline Rose, Geopolitical Futures
Last week, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi received a phone call that he had been dreading since he took the premiership in May. On the line was

A. Zaman, Al Monitor

The decision to seize seed collections from the British Institute at Ankara are linked to the Turkish president's wider Islamo-nationalist campaign.

Read more: https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2020/10/turkey-seed-bank-british-archaeobotanical-erdogan-ata-tohum.html#ixzz6aEA1a5Hy

June Teufel Dreyer, FPRI

A U.S. rare earth mineral strategy should . . . consist of national stockpiles of certain rare earth elements, reestablishing rare earth mineral processing in the U.S. by implementing new incentives and removing disincentives, and [research and development] around new forms of clean rare earth mineral processing and substitutes. We will need your help.

Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council

As our new era of U.S.-Chinese major power competition accelerates, this week’s train wreck of an American presidential debate, followed more dramatically on Friday by President Trump’s positive Covid test and hospitalization, contribute both to the perception and reality of Beijing’s historic gains.

James Holmes, National Interest