Kevin Rudd with Bernhard Zand, Der Spiegel
China presents a significant threat, believes former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. Which is why, he says, the West must work together rather than engage in the kind of bickering triggered by the recent submarine deal between Australia and the United States.
Roger Garside, ChinaFile
In 1980, writing the last paragraph of the last chapter of Coming Alive: China After Mao, I declared that China was moving "from totalitarian tyranny to a system more humane, part of a struggle by this nation to free itself from a straitjacket woven of feudalism, Marxism-Leninism, and twentieth-century technology." In 2020, 40 years later, in
Yuen Yuen Ang, Taipei Times
Within the span of a generation, a new super-rich class emerges from a society in which millions of rural migrants toiled away in factories for a pittance. Bribery becomes the most common mode of influence in politics. Opportunists speculate recklessly in land and real estate. Financial risks simmer as local governments borrow to finance railways and other large infrastructure projects. All of this is happening in the world's most promising emerging market and rising global power. Читать дальше...
Jacob Heilbrunn, Nat'l Int.
The Covid-19 crisis remains the most acute issue confronting the Biden administration.
Serge Schmemann, New York Times
Her 16-year reign is evidence that effective politics doesn't require losing your humanity.
Joel Weickgenant, Big Think
The EU is slowly realizing that it cannot count on the U.S. to meet its security needs. Has the time finally come for a European military?
Daniel Kochis, 1945
By giving any hope of U.S. support for an EU Army, the Biden administration is playing with fire.
