Stephen Bartholomeusz, SMH
Markets and economists are debating the implications of another surge in US inflation to levels last seen a quarter of a century ago but the dilemma confronting investors and policymakers is whether that has any relevance within economic settings that are unprecedented in the post-war period.
Bert Hofman, EAF
China's new population numbers will not doom its economic growth, but the fiscal challenges of aging loom large
Ramesh Thakur, Japan Times
A chain is only as strong as its weakest link. The Quadrilateral Security Dialogue process brings together Japan, Australia, India and the United States as an informal grouping of democracies to cooperate around the vast and critical Indo-Pacific maritime space.
Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
This week's summit must take bold initiatives on Covid and climate
Stewart Patrick, WPR
The United States is "back," proclaims U.S. President Joe Biden, seemingly as often as he can. The coming week will show if the same is true of the West. At successive summits of the G-7, NATO and the European Union, Biden and fellow leaders will confront a dual task: reviving the community of advanced market democracies and showing that the West is capable of resolving today's complex...
Economist
The army is weaker than the one left behind by the Soviet Union, but so are the militants opposing them | Asia
Temur Umarov, Moscow Times
Even if a U.S. military base does eventually open in Central Asia, it won't change the balance of power on the ground.
Emily Goldman, Foreign Service Journal
Fresh thinking and new approaches are needed on diplomacy's newest frontier.
John Vann, Council on Foreign Relations
Fishing provides a critical source of food and income for many countries, but much of it occurs unlawfully, harming vulnerable populations and eroding maritime governance.
Kate Dorsch, Foreign Policy
The Pentagon's latest report is unlikely to shift an old story.
Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
Let me start with my friend and the boat. Admittedly, they might not seem to have anything to do with each other. The boat, a guided-missile destroyer named the USSCurtis Wilbur, reportedly passed through the Straits of Taiwan and into the South China Sea, skirting the Paracel Islands that China has claimed as its own. It represented yet another
David Frost, Financial Times
Everyday lives are being disrupted and the balance we hoped for has not been found
Michael O'Hanlon, National Interest
America needs a sense of restraint in not viewing the sword as the only plausible response to small-scale security crises.
Isabel Ivanescu & Eva Kahan, Newlines
Turkey and Russia deceived an entire generation of desperate Syrians into fighting foreign wars, then abandoned them
M. Ayoob, ASPI Strategist
After 12 years as Israel's prime minister, it appears Benjamin Netanyahu will be deposed next week when a new government is formed under Naftali Bennett of the right-wing Yamina party. The coalition agreement was announced late Wednesday, just minutes before the constitutional deadline that mandated fresh elections if an agreement to form a government wasn't reached by that time. The government will now have to attain a vote of...
Kevin Williamson, National Review
Wallace Gregson, 1945
The pursuit of Covid-19 origin has just begun. And it will only get harder from here. President Joe Biden's decision to task our intelligence community to determine the origins of COVID-19, and report the conclusion in 90 days, buys some time to prepare for an answer. What to do with the verdict -
Simon Saradzhyan, Russia Matters
The last time Joe Biden met Vladimir Putin, the two did not exactly hit it off. During the March 2011 meeting the-then vice president of the United States urged the then-prime minister of Russia not to return to the Kremlin, and then claimed to have reached
