F. Tastekin, Al-M.
Turkey is pinning high economic hopes on a transport link that would connect it to Azerbaijan and beyond, but Russia and Iran have caveats and the viability of Turkey’s projects are open to question.
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Felix Chang, FPRI
Japan’s Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF), as it is officially known, is one of the world’s most powerful navies. Its fleet is larger than those of traditional European powers like France and the United Kingdom combined. But over the last decade, the MSDF has seen its position eclipsed by that of China’s navy, which has grown to twice its strength in terms of submarines and oceangoing surface combatants, like destroyers and frigates. More worrisome still for Tokyo, China... Читать дальше...
Robin Wigglesworth, FT
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Bonnie Kristian, RealClearWorld
President-elect Joe Biden is unlikely to engage North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un with the dramatic personal flair favored by President Donald Trump. At the final presidential debate, he accused Trump of having “legitimized North Korea” by “talk[ing] about his good buddy, who’s a thug.” Even without a pandemic, the Biden administration wouldn’t schedule elaborate summits with Kim...
Dan Blumenthal, Newsweek
When it comes to managing relations with China, a nation drawing on centuries of statecraft to inform its strategic designs, president-elect Joe Biden has no better asset than his own political maturity. After a bitter presidential campaign, the new Biden team will be tempted to jettison all of President Donald Trump's foreign policies. That would be a mistake that Biden is unlikely to make as a longtime veteran of the...
Hugh Pope, Chatham House
Hugh Pope and Nigar Goksel profile a country deemed too autocratic, too Muslim and too wayward to join the European club
