David Dapice, East Asia Forum
The 'crime' of Vietnam is to be in the right place at the right time and to take advantage of global developments in which they have little influence
Anoosh Chakelian, New Statesman
Mira Sucharov, Tablet
“Are you coming over to Justin’s this afternoon?” It’s my friend Oren on the phone. I’m in my apartment and he’s in his. “We’re going to watch the Israeli-Palestinian peace ceremony. Maybe Yasser Arafat will even shave for it.” He laughs at his own joke.
Steve Hanke, National Review
Turkey’s president Tayyip Recep Erdogan has hit the panic button. On Saturday, he fired Murat Uysal, the governor of the Central Bank of Turkey. Uysal is the second top monetary official Erdogan has axed in the past 16 months. To add insult to injury, Turkish finance minister Berat Albayrak, Erdogan’s son‐in‐law, resigned from his post Sunday due to “health problems.”
Kim Hong-kyun, JoongAng Daily
The U.S. presidential election came to an end, and a new occupant of the White House was determined. Despite earlier expectations that the voters would hand down a stinging indictment of President Donald Trump, he scored a surprising number of votes during the early hours of ballot counting. But Joe Biden was the winner after the mail-in ballots were counted.
Thomas Hale & Sun Yu, FT
With Beijing concerned that the sector is overheating, heavily indebted developers like Evergrande face intense scrutiny
Hassan Abbas, CGPolicy
South Asia will continue to demand special attention from the United States in light of its geopolitical dynamics, enormous potential market for goods and services,
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Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
Europe is sorely in need of a strategic culture, regardless of who wins the 2020 U.S. election. With all the instability in the EU?s Eastern and Southern neighborhoods, this is more necessary than ever.
Melvyn Leffler, Foreign Affairs
"To Start a War" reinforces prevailing views about the dysfunction, naiveté, and dogmatism of Bush and his advisers ahead of the Iraq war.
Owen Polley, CapX
Simon Saradzhyan, Russia Matters
Since Russia’s intervention in Ukraine, there has been no shortage of commentaries, articles, papers and entire volumes by Western academics, think-tankers, former policy practitioners and journalists on how Russian President Vladimir Putin is rebuilding the Russian empire or how the Kremlin has never actually stopped building one. Even trying to skim all these books (which I have to in my line of work) could easily become overwhelming. As I have discovered since 2014... Читать дальше...
