Economist
But few parents have rushed to have even a second since the government launched a two-child policy in 2016
Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations
The Quad, officially the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is a group of four countries: the United States, Australia, India, and Japan. Maritime cooperationamong them began after the Indian Ocean tsunami of 2004. But today the countries—all democracies and vibrant economies—work on a far broader agenda, which includes tackling security, economic, and health issues.
Hao Zhou, SCMP
The latest census has revealed a significant slowdown in the population growth rate, fertility rate and number of migrant workers.
Laurence Broers, Chatham House
Despite the elapse of six months since the ceasefire which brought the second Karabakh war to a close, there has been little respite in the Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict.
Ben West, Stratfor Worldview
European leaders may be hoping that the growing costs associated with the arrest of just one Belarusian dissident will be enough to deter Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's anti-democratic behavior in the future. But if brazen actions such as the May 23 arrests stifle dissent and weaken the threat against Lukashenko's regime, he may see the tradeoff as a bargain.
Judy Dempsey, Carnegie Europe
It took the hijacking of a plane and the kidnapping of a journalist to shake Europe out of its complacency over Belarus. Beyond sanctions, the EU's response should include supporting Belarusian society and reconsidering Nord Stream 2.
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Brendan Nicholson, ASPI Strategist
Given the scale of the threats Australia may face in an uncertain future, the nation needs to seriously reconsider how it will defend itself, strategist Albert Palazzo has warned.
Vladimir Socor, Jamestown
Within the last three weeks, a series of decisions by leading Western powers seem to indicate a downgrading of Ukraine on the scale of Western policy priorities. Taken partly in deference to Russia, these decisions risk demotivating Ukrainian reform efforts (hesitant though these are) and eroding Western credibility in Ukraine.
Malcolm Cook, Lowy Institute
Canberra needs to work with Southeast Asia to address looming South China Sea challenges from China and the US
R. Javad Heydarian, Diplomat
In Asia's maritime heartland, all the ingredients of a global cataclysm are conspiring against the post-Cold War period of peace and stability in the Indo-Pacific.
Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs
What is China? The answer is less obvious than it seems. Is the vast territory primarily a country, a civilization, or a political construct? Is it an empire or a nation-state? Is it a region with different languages and cultures or a (mostly) homogeneous people in which the great majority are closely connected by common traditions and ancestors?
Alan Riley, CEPA
The hijack of Ryanair Flight FR4978 on 23 May by the Belarusian air force on the explicit instructions of dictator Aliaksandr Lukashenka was both awful and horrific.
O. Falk & Y. Schwartz, Jerusalem Post
Many pundits claim that Hamas cannot be dismantled. But contrary to this conventional wisdom, terrorism can be defeated.
Ben Caspit, Al Monitor
Reports say that Knesset member Yair Lapid, chair of the centrist Yesh Atid party, will be making an inconceivable statement today, June 1. For the first time in 12 years, a mortal whose name is not Benjamin Netanyahu will inform the president that he has the votes to install Israel's next government. Almost as strange and unprecedented is the fact that Lapid himself will not head the government that he toiled to compose,...
Sulmaan Wasif Khan, Foreign Policy
And we'll all come to miss it.
Ted Galen Carpenter, TNI
Washington needs to let go of its long-held myth that Ukraine is a blossoming American-style democracy. In truth, it bears a much greater resemblance to the pseudo-democratic systems of Russia, Hungary, and Turkey.
Gonzalo Torrico, Worldcrunch
Despite local opposition, Chinese investors are pumping billions into the Chancay project, a massive port complex north of Lima that will boost trade between China and Latin America as a whole.
Eli Fuhrman, 1945
At a recent party event, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called on a collection of workers to improve their "communist faith" in order to overcome difficulties facing the country. In effect, to borrow a phrase, in his own way, Kim ordered his supporters to make North Korea great again.
Financial Times
UK, France and Germany should beware of sending mixed messages to China
