Diego Cupolo, Al Monitor
ISTANBUL — A Turkish seismic research ship escorted by naval frigates began energy prospecting activities Wednesday in contested tracts of the eastern Mediterranean, renewing disputes between Ankara and Athens over maritime boundaries.
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Fyodor Lukyanov, Moscow Times
Sergei Lavrov's recent comments on the EU may sound extreme, but they were a long time in the making.
Ayla Jean Yackley, Politico EU
Ankara once followed the principle of ‘zero problems with neighbors.’ Now, there’s problems all around.
Graham Allison, TNI
China has now displaced the U.S. to become the largest economy in the world. Measured by the more refined yardstick that both the IMF and CIA now judge to be the single best metric for comparing national economies, the IMF Report shows that China’s economy is one-sixth larger than America’s ($24.2 trillion versus the U.S.’s $20.8 trillion). Why can't we admit reality? What does this mean?
Eyck Freymann, Foreign Policy
More than a partisan move, statehood would be a foreign-policy masterstroke.
Anna Sauerbrey, New York Times
D. Lepeska, National
“Turkey will get back its fair share in the Mediterranean, Aegean and the Black Sea,” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared in August. It was a bold statement in an increasingly heated dispute over maritime boundaries.
Bjarke Smith-Meyer, Politico EU
The European Central Bank is eyeing a digital currency — but there are risks.
A. Green, WPR
Ethiopian lawmakers voted to sever ties with leaders of the northern Tigray region this week in a move that one Tigrayan official called “tantamount to a declaration of war.” The decision by the upper house of Ethiopia’s national parliament, the House of Federation, is the most severe in a series of tit-for-tat...
Alex Vatanka, Foreign Policy
The Nagorno-Karabakh conflict could spill over to Iran’s Azeri minority, setting off a battle the government can’t contain.
Julian Gewirtz, Foreign Affairs
Washington Must Show Beijing It’s Wrong
Tim Bartz et al, Der Spiegel
Britain will be leaving the EU common market at the end of the year and there are still important issues to be hammered out. Both sides could be facing a disaster in the form of huge traffic jams, job losses and rising prices.
Adrian Zenz, Jamestown
In 2019 and 2020, the Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR) introduced new policies to promote the systematic, centralized, and large-scale training and transfer of “rural surplus laborers” to other parts of the TAR, as well as to other provinces of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). In the first 7 months of 2020, the region had trained over half a million rural surplus laborers through this policy. This scheme encompasses Tibetans of all ages, covers the entire region,... Читать дальше...
Salvatore Babones, Foreign Policy
Few countries have soured more rapidly against China than Australia, as decades of influence-building by Beijing come to naught.
James Stavridis, Bloomberg
The Defense Department?s plans for a 500-vessel Navy â?Â" far beyond even Trump?s proposal â?Â" are overly ambitious.
Y. Huang & J. Levy, Nikkei
Difficult to cut through the media buzz around Xi Jinping's new strategy.
M. Kofman & L. Nersisyan, WOTR
Azerbaijan and Armenia have now spent more than two weeks at war, with casualties mounting on both sides. On the morning of Sept. 27, Azerbaijan launched an offensive across the line of contact held by the Armenian military and local forces belonging to the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh (sometimes referred to as the self-declared Republic of Artsakh). The fighting is the worst it has been since the Karabakh War of 1992 to 1994, encompassing the entire line of contact... Читать дальше...
