Gordon Chang, Newsweek
Consider U.S. farmers happy. They are exporting record volumes of products to China. Shipments of soybeans, corn and pork are bringing smiles back to the American heartland.
James Holmes, 1945
The competitor who blunders the least wins.
Ahmad Ra'fat, Worldcrunch
The Islamic Republic's nuclear program is no longer a saga restricted, as it was in the past, to Iran and the world powers known as the P5+1, namely the five permanent members of the UN Security Council (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States) plus Germany.
Roya Hakakian, New York Review of Books
From the start, the Islamic Revolution used the compulsory hijab to cement its rule by subordinating women. A wave of civil disobedience is challenging all that.
James Jay Carafano & Thomas Spoehr, Heritage
Distinguished war historian Max Hastings recently lamented, "In centers of learning across North America, the study of the past in general, and of wars in particular, is in spectacular eclipse." This created a bit of a buzz among "classically" educated national security professionals—i.e., those who learned the blocking-and-tackling basics of their field...
Radio Free Asia
Ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) leader Xi Jinping has told the country's military and armed police force to get 'combat ready' to defend national sovereignty and security, amid fears that Beijing may be planning an invasion of democratic Taiwan in the next few years.
Stratfor Worldview
Biden, Modi, Morrison & Suga, WaPo
In December 2004, the continental shelf off the coast of Indonesia shifted two meters, creating one of the largest tidal waves in modern history and a nearly unprecedented humanitarian crisis around the Indian Ocean. With millions displaced and hundreds of thousands killed, the Indo-Pacific region sounded a clarion call for help. Together, our four countries answered it.
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S. Lau & J. Hanke Vela, Politico EU
Despite growing concerns about Chinese disinformation and propaganda in Europe, the EU's trade deal with Beijing makes no attempt to rectify the stark differences in access rights between European and Chinese investors when it comes to media and news operations.
Harrison Manlove, Strategy Bridge
In Korea: The War Before Vietnam, Callum A. MacDonald writes with short, sharp clarity. The precision of his writing does not take away from necessary details or the importance of the Korean War in international history, especially for those involved in that conflict. The book is driven by a narrative told through official documents, robust secondary sources, and scholarship developed over nearly 35 years. Callum A. MacDonald died of cancer in 1997 at the age of 49. Читать дальше...
Van Jackson, Foreign Affairs
On his first phone call with Chinese leader Xi Jinping after taking office, U.S. President Joe Biden stressed that "preserving a free and open Indo-Pacific" was one of his top priorities. He made a similar point to Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, promising to "promote a free and open Indo-Pacific," and to South Korean leader Moon Jae-in, calling the U.S.-South Korean alliance a "lynchpin of the security and prosperity of the Indo-Pacific." On a call between... Читать дальше...
Lev Nachman & Brian Hioe, The Diplomat
This August, voters in Taiwan will go back to the polls to vote in four hotly contended and controversial referendums that will have far-reaching consequences for Taiwanese society.
N. Fleischaker & S. Sinnott, WOTR
"Design a force suited to the reality of the pacing threat." "Shift in our primary focus to great power competition." Phrases like these so permeate the U.S. Marine Corps' discourse about its purpose and force design that they obscure a critical feature: nuclear weapons and the risk of
Jeremy Grantham, Financial Times
The worldwide fertility rate has already dropped more than 50 per cent in the past 50 years, from 5.1 births per woman in 1964 to 2.4 in 2018, according to the World Bank. In 2020, the 20 per cent shortfall below replacement rate in US fertility, together with low net immigration, produced the lowest population growth on record of 0.35 per cent, below even the flu pandemic of 1918.
