James Marks, RealClearWorld
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin visited India this month to forge stronger security and economic ties between our two great nations. The visit was highly significant, because it came amid the most dangerous power dynamics we have seen in the Indo-Pacific region for a generation.
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Human Rights Watch
(Beirut) - The Syrian government's failure to fairly and adequately address a bread crisis brought on by a decade of armed conflict is forcing millions of Syrians to go hungry, Human Rights Watch said today.
John Harris, Guardian
The constant hoisting of the flag into public view serves only as a reminder that the union is all but over as a political entity
David Brinn, Jerusalem Post
Albert Einstein's iconic adage - "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results " is making more sense each time.
Vladimir Socor, Jamestown
The Second Karabakh War (September 27-November 9, 2020) has resulted in a partition of Azerbaijan's former Upper Karabakh Autonomous Region (obsolete Russian acronym: NKAO). The war's victor, Azerbaijan, currently controls one third of that territory, while Russian troops and the Armenian authorities of the unrecognized Karabakh republic centered in Stepanakert control about two thirds. All of Upper Karabakh is universally deemed—also by Russia, emphatically—as being a part of Azerbaijan. Читать дальше...
Lee Smith, Tablet
Media reports on March 18 revealed that that the United Arab Emirates has suspended its plans for an Abraham Accords summit in Abu Dhabi with Israel, the United States, and other Arab signatories to the historic peace agreements brokered by the Donald Trump administration. Supposedly, the Emiratis are angry with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for using the UAE's de facto leader Mohammed bin Zayed as a "prop in his election campaign."
Katie Bo Williams, Defense One
Several weeks earlier, an apocryphal meme claiming President Joe Biden had "invaded" Syria proliferated across right-wing social media channels. In reality, U.S. forces here are carrying out a mission inherited across three administrations that, at least for now, seems poised to continue in perpetuity. But the popularity of the online conspiracy made clear that for some Americans, the roughly...
Alex Ward, Vox
The US-China meeting was going to be tense. Few expected it to be that combustible.
Trevor Phillips, Times of London
Labour will slip further into irrelevancy if it is seen to be aligned with a childish brand of anti-British identity politics
Fergus Kell, CH
An unprecedented transition process has been set in motion following the unexpected death of President John Magufuli early in his second term, with Tanzania's former vice-president Samia Suluhu Hassan sworn in to take office until the end of the current presidential term in 2025, becoming the country's first female head of state.
Nolan Quinn, CFR
President John Magufuli's death at sixty-one years of age followed a familiar pattern among Africa's putative strongmen: denials that he was sick followed by secrecy as to the circumstances of his dying and where it happened. Magufuli, like other African heads of state, apparently sought treatmentoutside his own country, rumor had it either in Kenya or India—perhaps both. Vice President Samia...
D. Moss, Bloomberg
Erdogan's sacking of governor Naci Agbal heralds a course correction. The new interest-rate chief will have to be careful to survive in the job.
Yoichi Funabashi, Japan Times
Newly appointed ambassadors from Japan to Australia are the envy of their colleagues: "How nice to be appointed to a country where there are no real outstanding issues to resolve," they often say. The same is true of their Australian counterparts in Japan.
Laurenz Gehrke et al, Politico EU
BERLIN — Germany's Greens are aiming at the country's top political job, and to get there they want to take down fossil fuel cars.
Rachel Esplin Odell, RS
A meeting hailed as a chance to "air divisive issues" and stabilize relations between the United States and China quickly devolved into finger-pointing and recriminations by officials on both sides, spelling trouble for a relationship increasingly defined by hostility and conflict.
Martin Arnold, Financial Times
Economists are cutting growth forecasts for the eurozone economy as a third wave of Covid-19 infections and vaccination delays spur tighter restrictions in several countries including France, Italy and Germany.
Thomas Wright, The Atlantic
The exchange in Alaska may have seemed like a debacle, but it was actually a necessary step to a more stable relationship between the two countries.
