Benedict Rogers, Conservative Home
A year ago today, Boris Johnson, Dominic Raab and Priti Patel did something genuinely courageous, generous and right.
Matthew Syed, Times of London
ifty years ago this week, Henry Kissinger, then the US national security adviser, travelled to Beijing on a secret mission. His task? To reset relations between China and the US, a moment that must rank among the most consequential of the 20th century. It was the event that set the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) on a path to global domination and exposed the naivety of the West. The tragedy is that, even now, few seem willing to accept what has unfolded, or why.
Paul Musgrave, Foreign Policy
When ideas get out from academia into the wild, they can be surprisingly dangerous.
Peter Suciu, 1945
Practice makes perfect, and that is certainly true for military professionals around the world. The Russian Navy, which is currently undergoing a major modernization effort, has been engaged in "practice" via training missions. Multiple flotillas have taken part in drills and exercises around the world in recent weeks. That included missile and artillery firings in the Pacific against a notional enemy's air attack and sea targets, while the...
Robert Manning, The Hill
Xi Jinping's rousing speech at the lavish 100-year anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) was a reflection of the good, the bad and the (whitewashed) ugly of its complex legacy. In his narcissistic admonishments, warnings and praise of the 95-million-member CCP, Xi has transformed into one-man rule, the risks and dangers ahead for China and the world were discernible.
France 24
Chile officially starts writing a new constitution Sunday to replace the one it inherited from the era of dictator Augusto Pinochet and is widely blamed for deep social inequalities that gave rise to deadly protests in 2019.
J. Davison & A. Rasheed, Reuters
The political movement of nationalist Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has quietly come to dominate the apparatus of the Iraqi state. This growing influence could pose problems for the U.S. and Iran.
Ian Williams, Spectator
Days after a nuclear power plant began spewing deadly radiation, the ruling Communist party pushed ahead with a huge and self-indulgent celebration of the sort that had become a hallmark of its rule. This was no time for bad news, and the party delayed, dithered and hid the truth about the deadly ev...
David Pilling, Financial Times
Ethiopia's leader is tarnishing his reformist reputation as violence spreads in the Tigray region
