Robert Farley, 1945
We can thus envision ways in which the massive trade relationship between China and the United States could persist despite great power competition, even if that competition is punctuated by violence. Financiers and corporations in both countries will wonder about the length of the war, and the cost of rebuilding relationships and supply chains. Chinese and American firms in third countries will, in all likelihood, continue to trade robustly with one another, at least for a time. Читать дальше...
Daniel Fried & Ash Jain, AC
When US President Franklin Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill signed the original Atlantic Charter at the onset of the World War II, they outlined a vision for a world based on non-aggression, self-determination, and open trade. It was democracy's answer to Nazism—and, by implication, Soviet communism—and was the original mission statement for what we now call the liberal, rules-based international order.
Brandon Weichert, RealClearWorld
Since taking office in January, President Joe Biden and his advisers have talked a good game about taking on China. This is a surprise to many of us who assumed that Biden would basically kowtow to Beijing. Even on the important matter of the origins of COVID-19, the Biden team has
Amanda Coakley, FP
Europe's "illiberal democrat" is on a quest to remake the continent's politics.
Iulia-Sabina Joja, TNI
Lashet and Baerbock represent two very different German foreign policies with large-scale implications for Europe's Eastern front.
Dave Keating, World Politics Review
Lithuanian Prime Minister Ingrida Simonyte this week described Lukashenko's decision to send migrants into the bloc as a "tool of hybrid war" against the EU. She stressed the urgency of the situation in a call with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Monday, saying that nearly 3,000 migrants have been apprehended at the border with Belarus this year, 37 times more than for all of 2020. Sixty percent of them, she says,...
Bernard-Henri Lévy, Tablet
This week the Middle East Institute in Washington published an English edition of the report on Afghanistan that French President Jacques Chirac asked me to complete almost exactly 20 years ago. It appears with a foreword by Gen. David Petraeus, the former head of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Financial Times
West should heed opposition calls to extend and tighten sanctions.
Brad Glosserman, Japan Times
It's a little late, but the Biden administration has finally launched its Southeast Asian diplomatic offensive.
Jo Tei et al, Worldcrunch
BEIJING — "Ever since I was a kid, I've always wanted to join the party..." Yanru, a 22-year-old university student studying at a well-known university in northern China, just became a CCP member last year. For her and her peers, joining the Chinese Communist Party is something that just seems natural: "It has led us to victories, fought back the foreign colonists, and built up the strong and...
Seong-ho Sheen, National Interest
South Korea's unique experience combining a Western-style democracy and the Asian value of communitarianism could become a very powerful source of South Korea's success as a new model for dealing with global challenges.
