Ben Cahill, CSIS
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies in OPEC+ are proceeding with their production plans despite the run-up in oil prices. On October 4 the group decided to continue adding 400,000 barrels per day (b/d) to the market each month, ignoring pressure from oil-importing states for greater volumes. For now, OPEC+ is shrugging off concerns over the economic impact of higher oil prices, perhaps mindful of a softer outlook for next year. Q1: What happened at the OPEC meeting? Читать дальше...
National Review
Unless the status quo changes, China stands a disturbingly high chance at succeeding at swallowing the island.
Peter Martin, Foreign Affairs
Backlash Is Building—but Beijing Can't Seem to Recalibrate
A. Coyne, Globe & Mail
While Conservatives at large ponder whether to ditch Erin O'Toole as leader or keep him, the party's parliamentary caucus has just made a decision of much greater import: it has given itself the power to dismiss the leader - and thus transformed the office itself.
Chukwudi Ukonne, African Arguments
The tech industry is one of Nigeria's fastest growing, but is independent of the state patronage system and therefore must be eliminated.
Jeremy Cliffe, New Statesman
As Beijing reckons with corporate excess, power cuts and a rapidly ageing population, the image of an ever-mightier China is faltering.
Mirna Galic, War on the Rocks
A Chinese military intervention against Taiwan represents a major security threat for Japan. So it is not surprising that a Japanese poll found 74 percent of respondents supportive of their government engaging to advance peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait. Tokyo's potential role in a military contingency involving Taiwan has also been in the spotlight, however, following increased Chinese and U.S. tensions over the...
Michael O'Hanlon, National Interest
The key challenge was in trying to help rescue an Afghan society and political system that was badly broken, in the face of an insurgency that was supported by a neighboring country.
Shashi Tharoor, Project Syndicate
The Taliban's victory over the United States in Afghanistan will not only greatly embolden their fellow jihadists, but also shake up the region's geopolitics. In particular, an Afghanistan-Pakistan-China axis involving policy coordination would represent a major risk for India.
Emily Schultheis, Politico
Leaders wrap up first round of talks over post-Merkel government.
Sheila Smith, Defense One
This year's summit has demonstrated the leaders' ambitions. Regular leaders' summits will be needed to maintain the pace and focus.
L. Richardson, EAF
Tokyo and Seoul need to establish creative diplomatic mechanisms to relieve the ongoing anguish of the few surviving Korean colonial victims and establish a 21st century logic for cooperation that is not entrenched in the 1965 Cold War regional order, writes Lauren Richardson (ANU).
Gordon Chang, 1945
Taiwan reports that China sent a record 56 planes into its air-defense identification zone on Monday. The previous records were 38 planes on Friday and 39 planes Saturday. Sunday was quiet: Only 16 Chinese aircraft intruded. Many will say that China is only huffing and puffing, wasting aviation fuel with the provocative flights. Friday, after […]
Brenda Shaffer, FDD
Analysis, Op-eds | October 5, 2021 | An energy crisis is affecting almost every part of the globe, marked by record-high energy prices, tight supplies, and power blackouts. Some of the world's richest countries and U.S. states such as California...
Reuters
TAIPEI, Oct 5 (Reuters) - A group of French senators including a former defence minister will visit Taiwan this week, the island's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, with the visit coming at a time of soaring tensions between Taipei and Beijing and despite China's opposition.
Sam Bowman, CapX
When Facebook and its other services disappeared from the internet on Monday night, it seemed to confirm many people's worst fears about the company. The outage, some said, demonstrated how indispensable Facebook had made itself to our lives - and hence, they argued, how important it was to regulate it or break it up.
Taylor Darby, NK News
Foreigners may pay in one currency and receive change in others, while converting back and forth into virtual money
Michael Young, Carnegie
Republicans in Congress have just accused the Biden administration of withholding a report on Hezbollah's financial empire. The report, which is to be prepared by the State and Defense Departments, is a requirement of the Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2018.
Danielle Pletka, The Dispatch
It has risen from being a tool of terrorists in the modern era to one used by governments.
Rich Lowry, National Review
e warned China to stop its incursions into Taiwan's air-defense identification zone — and the Chinese responded by flying even more aircraft into the zone.
