Martha Bárcena Coqui, Am. Quar.
Integration with both China and the U.S. benefits Mexico, but also presents challenges.
Michael Oren, Tablet Magazine
The IDF is addicted to credits for shiny new American weapons. But the strategic price may be too high.
A. Weissman & F. Wehrey, Carn.
Russia's actions in that part of the world, especially North Africa, have not flowed from predetermined principles, norms, or a doctrine leading to a desired end-state.
Ulrike Franke, Politico
A more China-skeptical Germany would be good news for Biden, but it may come at the cost of cooperation on NATO.
Seth Cropsey & Harry Halem, RealClearDefense
Although thankfully rescinded now, France's recall of its American ambassador risked transforming the diplomatic row over AUKUS, the newly-formed Australian-British-American security agreement, into a full intra-NATO crisis. The AUKUS pact's central aspect - the cancellation of Australia's contract with France to construct 12 conventionally-powered Attack-class submarines and its planned contract with the U.S. or UK to procure eight nuclear-powered... Читать дальше...
Rainer Zitelmann, Nat'l Int.
It could take several months before a new government is formed in Germany. Optimists hope that a coalition government will be in place by Christmas.
Jen Kirby, Vox
BERLIN — The release of one of the first election exit polls showed Germany's center-left Social Democrats with a slight lead. That was enough to send the crowd at the Willy Brandt Haus, the party's headquarters in Berlin, into cheers and applause. After 16 years of Angela Merkel and her center-right party, Germany looked as if it might be on the verge of political change.
Hugh Piper, Lowy Interpreter
Beijing has handed Canberra an unexpected bargaining chip. The question is how to best use it?
M. Rubin, Examiner
Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan used his United Nations General Assembly address to cast Pakistan as the victim of U.S. ingratitude.
Douglas Bulloch, 1945
As the aftershocks of the AUKUS announcement rumble around the world, the notoriously thin-skinned French continue to...
Jeremy Kinsman, Ottawa Citizen
The essential understanding is that the deal is done, the trade is made and everyone shuts up. No one re-litigates or claims they were really the ones in the…
Lynn Hunt, The New York Review of Books
Neither of these titles includes the word "globalization" or even "global," though the knitting together of the world is in fact the subject of both of
T. Spoehr et al, WOTR
In July, Rear Adm. Mike Studeman, director of intelligence for U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, warned that "it's only a matter of time" until China resorts to
A. Kluth, Bloomberg
With the German chancellor now on the way out, only one leader even remotely has the stature to fill her shoes. He's in Rome, not Paris.
Kelly McParland, National Post
The ruthlessness of Beijing's actions served to awaken world powers to the essential coarseness of the regime
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
BERLIN — Looks like Germany won't be saying Auf Wiedersehen to Angela Merkel for a while yet.
Fiona Hill, Foreign Affairs
How Putin exploits American dysfunction and fuels American decline.
