Edward Lehman & Jed Rothstein, The Diplomat
From Alipay and WeChat Pay to the digital RMB, the past, present, and future of China's digital payment services.
Chitrabhanu Kadalayil, The National
With the 2024 parliamentary election firmly in their sights, key opposition parties across India are appearing to make plans on how to defeat Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). The operative phrase here is "appearing to".
Nikolas Gvosdev, Russia Matters
Most media reaction to the meeting between presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin in Geneva focused on the optics: analyses of handshakes, body language, smiles and pouts in an effort to determine who was projecting confidence or unease and who would come off better in the battle of perceptions. Based on these tells, media analysts and pundits were quick to issue assessments of who "won" or "lost" at Geneva, as to whether Biden projected strength, resolve... Читать дальше...
Yevgenia Albats, Moscow Times
Commentators are struggling to describe what happened behind closed doors at the Putin-Biden summit.
Bohmer & Wergin, Worldcrunch
On the Internet, Russian trolls are attacking the top candidate of the German Greens in the worst possible way. Attacks on Annalena Baerbock and other Green politicians also come from Turkey. Behind this is the concern about a green foreign policy.
Osama Al Sharif, Al Monitor
Jordan is yet to react to the June 13 formation of a new Israeli government that ended Benyamin's Netanyahu's 12-year hold on power. Under Netanyahu, relations between the two neighbors, who had signed a peace treaty 26 years ago, had dipped to their worst level. The decline was not restricted to political issues but
Tony Barber, Financial Times
Pedro Sánchez has stirred a rightwing outcry with his olive branch to jailed separatists
A. Miller & R. Sokolsky, NPR
Listening to President Biden these days, one can be forgiven for believing that the world is locked into a historic struggle between autocracies and democracies and that the fate of the 21st century — if not the planet itself — will be decided by the will and resolve of democratic nations to win that battle largely under America's leadership.
Abbas Milani, Project Syndicate
Sayyid Ebrahim Raisi's victory in Iran's presidential election places all of the country's levers of power in the hands of regime hardliners for the first time in decades. But behind the apparent consolidation of power, domestic turmoil looms as the country's structural challenges worsen.
Patrick Tucker, Defense One
Top commanders say military training needs to reflect how artificial intelligence will change the pace of war.
W. Bratton, Nikkei
Fading external ties will not matter all that much.
