Hugo Rifkind, Times of London
If pro-EU campaigners cared as much about our own Union as they did about Europe, we might be able to preserve it.
Martin Kettle, Guardian
Scotland's moves towards independence have panicked the UK government, but its hasty plans for reform may be too late.
Joe Gould, Defense News
Over the next few days, I'd receive more than five dozen more emails from strangers, most of them fearful this viral fake news was true. Meanwhile, I watched the meme stubbornly spread on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and maybe most of all, Telegram, a chat app popular with QAnon adherents that was first developed in Russia.
Salman Khurshid, Indian Express
Understandably, there is a red line between protest and sedition but advising the citizen to protest for politics should come with an assurance that it will not be crushed by an impervious law.
Harish Khare, The Hindu
The protesting farmers have revitalised the democratic polity and the Republic now stands morally recharged
Frederick Kempe, Atlantic Council
It's now Biden's America, but whose world will it be?
Expect Chinese President Xi Jinping to answer that question unequivocally on Monday with his keynote at the World Economic Forum's first global virtual meeting. It will leave little doubt that managing relations with China will be both US President Joe Biden's most immediate and most defining foreign...
John Pomfret, The Atlantic
D. Bratt, Calgary Herald
On the morning of January 20, Joe Biden was inaugurated as United States president. In the afternoon, he signed an executive order rescinding the permit for the Keystone XL pipeline. This decision has massive negative economic consequences for TC Energy, the overall Alberta economy and the Alberta government. This set the stage for a remarkable news conference later that afternoon by Alberta Premier Jason Kenney. Ostensibly, it was a blistering if petulant, critique of Biden's decision. Читать дальше...
Business Day
President Cyril Ramaphosa skipped it in 2020, but finance minister Tito Mboweni and Reserve Bank governor Lesetja Kganyago were there, as were the leaders of SA's most recognisable companies.
Micha'el Tanchum & Dimitar Bechev, Foreign Policy
Taking a page from Beijing, Rome is positioning itself as the center of trade, energy, and transportation in Southern Europe and beyond.
H.A. Hellyer, Politico EU
The other struggle is a newer one. On one side, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are generally seeking to maintain the status quo, keep the forces of Muslim Brotherhood-style Islamism at bay, and further their own regional sway. Arrayed against them is a Turkish-Qatari alliance aiming to further its own influence in the region. The contest between the two does little to strengthen good governance or the upholding of fundamental rights, as activists right across the region will attest to ... Читать дальше...
Patrick Hulme & Erik Gartzke, 1945
When it comes to war, America is almost always playing an "away game." The conflicts the nation has recently fought, and the defense activities it engages in, are in distant places. There is little reason to suspect this tendency will change anytime soon. Afghanistan and Iraq are both nearly on the opposite side of the globe from the continental United States, and much of the War on Terror over the past two decades has been conducted thousands of miles... Читать дальше...
