A. Townshend et al, WOTR
Australia's recent decision to acquire nuclear-powered submarines through the new Australia-United Kingdom-United States (AUKUS) defense technology partnership has put its efforts to deter China's rising military power on the global stage. But as Australia's
Richard Javad Heydarian, The National
The Philippine president toyed with options for staying in power, but the writing is on the wall
ChinaPower Project, CSIS
This ChinaPower feature provides a comprehensive assessment of the scope and impact of China's Covid-19 medical aid and vaccine diplomacy.
Economist
None of this makes Xi Jinping, China's ruler, happy. According to a leaked account by a professor who grew up with him, he is "repulsed by the all-encompassing commercialisation of Chinese society, with its attendant nouveau riche". Mr Xi has begun to talk more frequently about "common prosperity". In January, he declared that "we cannot allow the gap between the rich and the poor to continue growing…We cannot permit the wealth gap to become an unbridgeable gulf."
Adhiraaj Anand, The Diplomat
The PLA views India's growing military cooperation with the United States with some concern but generally does not consider India a major threat.
Matthew Syed, Times of London
n The Times on Thursday Peter Tiede, chief political correspondent of Bild, penned an extraordinary column about German perceptions of the UK. He described British politics as "populist and simplistic". He talked of "grinning with schadenfreude" at our travails. He insinuated that the dash for Brexit in a fit of nationalistic pique had weakened European solidarity. The implication was that the mature, solidaristic Germans would never have done anything so corrosive to the western order. Читать дальше...
Hugh Lovatt, ECFR
The EU's highest court has again backed Western Sahara self-determination. It is now time for the EU's political institutions to bring their policy into line with the law - for the benefit of regional peace.
Paul Pillar, Foreign Policy
Even if the Taliban wanted to serve as a safe haven, there's no reason to think terrorists would want to take up the offer.
James Jay Carafano, 1945
America failed 38 million Afghans. In two days of hearings about that failure, Washington failed 331 million Americans. To be exact, Washington failed us three times over. Here's how. Failure #1. The president failed us. President Biden made terrible decisions and then lied about them. He thought he could run away from the mess in Afghanistan […]
Andrei Kortunov, Moscow Times
Decisions made by NATO may be unpalatable for Moscow, but they are generally consistent and predictable. The same cannot be said of alliances like AUKUS.
Joschka Fischer, Project Syndicate
Although Germany's fragmented federal election result has left a cloud of uncertainty about the next government, it also left the old consensus in favor of muddling through in tatters. A new generation recognizes the need for a carefully managed fresh start to confront the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Peter Dickinson, Atl. Council
Moscow's Nord Stream 2 pipeline has yet to enter service but Russian President Vladimir Putin is already being accused of weaponizing energy supplies and attempting to blackmail Europe with high gas prices.
Michael Beckley and Hal Brands, Foreign Affairs Magazine
Beijing is running out of time to remake the world.
Paul Heer, The National Interest
A cold war between the United States and China is obviously not desirable, nor is it necessarily inevitable. But it is very difficult to see how Beijing and Washington, either individually or jointly, are going to take the steps necessary to avert it.
Francesca Ebel, Newlines
As the summer draws to a close and with urgent economic deadlines on the horizon, how long will mass support for the president continue? What are the political implications of Saied's latest decree? And does that decree signal a return to despotism or is Tunisia's democratic transition on pause?
Walter Pincus, Cipher Brief
Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist Walter Pincus is a contributing senior national security columnist at The Cipher Brief. Pincus spent forty years at The Washington Post, writing on topics from nuclear weapons to politics. He is the author of Blown to Hell: America's Deadly Betrayal of the Marshall Islanders (releasing November 2021) OPINION — On September 15, North Korea and … Continue reading "A Dangerous Nuclear Build-Up on the Korean Peninsula"
France 24, France 24
The diplomatic discord between Algeria and France deepened Sunday after Algiers banned French military planes from its airspace, its latest response to a row over visas and critical comments from Pre…
Carnegie
James A. Baker, III, occupies a unique place in the history of American foreign policy and politics. He is the only person to serve as Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, and White House Chief of Staff (twice). He also led five presidential campaigns. Please join us as Aaron David Miller sits down with America's 61st Secretary of State for a discussion of U.S. foreign policy, domestic politics, and the state of the world.
