Dina Esfandiary, WPR
The recently finalized 25-year comprehensive cooperation agreement between Iran and China has been referred to in the media as a
Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg
Desmond Lachman, Nat'l Interest
The United States is presently engaged in its largest peacetime budget stimulus on record. That stimulus risks causing economic overheating at home by the end of this year.
Steven Cook, Foreign Policy
The war in Afghanistan needed to wind down. But Washington is learning the wrong lesson.
Jake Cordell, RM
After years of rapid expansion during President Vladimir Putin's first stint as president, Russia's middle class has dwindled in the years since his return to office in 2012. Confrontation with the west after the annexation of Crimea, the resulting sanctions and the Kremlin's focus on macroeconomic stability at the expense of prosperity have entrenched a stagnation which has hit middle-earners hard. By one
Stratfor Worldview
The Australian government will increasingly scrutinize both public and private agreements with China as Canberra expands efforts to shape Chinese economic influence in the country. China will respond with continued trade pressure targeted at select Australian sectors, while refraining from measures that could significantly damage Australia's economy. On April 21, Australia's foreign ministry used its new powers gained
Eryk Bagshaw, Sydney Morning Herald
There will be those who dismiss the scrapping of Victoria's Belt and Road agreement as merely the end of a memorandum of understanding - a deal that commits no funds and no projects while offering nothing but trouble for its two major players.
Jennifer Lind, Financial Times
Suga's willingness to discuss Taiwan during his White House visit was a departure from the norm
J. Chiu & J. Nuttall, The Star
VANCOUVER—The two Canadians were walking down a sidewalk in their neighbourhood in Turpan, a city in China's northwestern Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, when everyone seemed to freeze.
Harry Halem & Seth Cropsey, Hudson
As March ended, the BBC's Beijing correspondent, John Sudworth, left China following escalating harassment by the Communist Party there. Sudworth, a nine-year veteran of the BBC's China desk, since 2018 has investigated the Communist Party's genocide in Xinjiang, publishing multiple
Hannah Ellis-Petersen, Guardian
ooking out over a sea of jostling, maskless faces gathered at a political rally in West Bengal on Saturday, the Indian prime minister, Narendra Modi, proudly proclaimed that he had "never ever seen such huge crowds". A mask was also noticeably absent from Modi's face.
Daniel Baer, Foreign Policy
The Biden administration's new mantra falls one step short.
Paul Roderick Gregory, The Hill
The U.S. media initially burst out in applause at the "sweeping" and "tough" sanctions the Biden administration
Ted Galen Carpenter, 1945
It is bad enough when the United States incurs grave risks to defend even indisputably democratic allies, if those countries lack sufficient importance to America's economic and security interests. Too many U.S. allies, such as the Baltic republics, fail that crucial risk-benefit calculation. However, it is even worse when the United States incurs excessive risks on behalf of undemocratic allies or clients that have little intrinsic importance. And yet, Washington... Читать дальше...
Samuel Bendett, Modern War Institute
Numerous militaries, including that of the United States, are now developing and conceptualizing drone swarms—groups of uncrewed systems working together to overcome air or ground defenses, acquire and strike multiple targets at once, and create confusion among defending forces. The use of drones in recent and ongoing conflicts in
Brian Whitmore, Atlantic Council
One way to look at Belarus ruler Alyaksandr Lukashenka's claim last week that he was the target of a US-backed coup and assassination attempt is that this is just the latest in a series of conspiratorial rants by an increasingly beleaguered dictator.
