Milton Ezrati, National Interest
Whatever this administration's clear desires to separate itself from Trump, his manner, and his policies, they do not extend to the issue of China trade.
Klon Kitchen, The Dispatch
This weekend, the Financial Times reported that, back in August, China successfully tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that went into space and orbited the globe before reentering earth's atmosphere and landing within a couple dozen miles of its intended target. The article's authors, Demetri Sevastopulo and Kathrin Hille, also claim American intelligence agencies were "surprised" by...
C. Raja Mohan, Indian Express
The first meeting between foreign ministers of India, Israel, UAE and US suggests that Delhi is now ready to move from bilateral relations conducted in separate silos towards an integrated regional policy
George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures
At the risk of beating a dead horse, I'm writing about supply chains again. Ekaterina Zolotovaand Phillip Orchard can explain why Russian-Chinese maneuvers are insignificant. Antonia Colibasanu and Francesco Casarotto can try to explain Europe.
Anthony Cordesman, CSIS
The shift in America's strategic focus from fighting terrorism in the Middle East -and its "long wars" in Afghanistan as well as Iraq and Syria - to competition with China has led to a growing level of confrontation and possible wars in Taiwan and the South China Sea. At the same time, the increases in U.S. domestic natural gas and oil production have led many to believe the U.S. has far less need to ensure the smooth flow of energy exports from the Gulf and the MENA region. Читать дальше...
Aaron Stein, War on the Rocks
After decades of speculation about the future of the U.S.-Turkish alliance, Washington and Ankara have finally reached a fork in the road. The day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced plans to deepen defense cooperation with Russia, his government formally submitted a request to the United States for 40 new Block 70 model F-16 aircraft and upgrade kits for 80 F-16s already in service with the Turkish Air Force. The...
Richard Haass, Project Syndicate
The goal of US policy toward the island should be to reduce uncertainty about America's intentions and its ability to make good on them, while underscoring to Chinese leaders the economic and military costs of aggression. As much as China's leaders want Taiwan, they also want to maintain power and the Communist Party's political monopoly.
Owen Hatherly, London Review of Books
ne of the more intriguing recent conspiracy theories centres on the putative suppression of a global ‘Tartarian Empire', which, before it was destroyed either by the world wars or by a tidal wave of mud, went in for an opulent, gigantist architecture of domes and spires, encompassing everything from St Paul's in London to St Basil's in Moscow. Once the empire was gone, the world was rebuilt by a technologically inferior civilisation that preferred a mass-produced architecture of boxes... Читать дальше...
Thomas Spoehr, Heritage
Analysts worry the U.S. is falling behind in such key military technologies as hypersonic missiles, quantum computing and artificial intelligence.
Bilahari Kausikan, Foreign Policy
Sowing doubts about Washington is a potent weapon for Beijing. But even after Afghanistan, U.S. strategy in Asia remains intact.
Jason Killmeyer, 1945
The operative reality of Iran's relations with the P5+1 nations stopped being the JCPOA a number of years ago. That's true in two ways, the most obvious being that the deal was only ever limited to slowing a nuclear weapons breakout. It didn't address so many other facets of interaction or Iran's other malevolent behavior. And, nearly as obvious, because the deal was effectively canceled in mid-2018. Since then, it has simply not been that big a...
Johann Chacko, The National
Despite strong emotions at home about the Taliban takeover, New Delhi has opted for restraint
Claudio Silva, African Arguments
When everyone knows the emperor has no clothes but no one dares say it out loud, even the smallest acts of dissent become ones of radical defiance.
Dreyfus & Hugot, P-Eur.
(PONARS Eurasia Policy Memo) The South Caucasus has entered a new phase since the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War, with Baku now holding the advantage. This new paradigm could pave the way for resuming different transportation links across the South Caucasus, a move officially backed by Yerevan, Baku, and Moscow.
Robert Zaretsky, Forward
This past weekend, Paris marked the 60th anniversary of one of the darkest moments in its recent history — a terrible moment that reminds both French Muslims and French Jews of their fragile place in France.
Brandon Friedman, Institut Montaigne
Members of two rival camps in the Sunni Middle East - Qatar and Turkey on one side, and Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE, on the other - have continued a sustained diplomatic effort at reconciliation this summer. In mid-August the UAE's National Security Adviser, Sheikh Tahnoun bin Zayed Al Nahyan, met with Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This was followed two weeks later by a "positive" phone call between Emirati Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed and the Turkish president. Читать дальше...
Georg Fahrion et al, Der Spiegel
Chinese warplanes over the Taiwan Strait, nuclear-powered submarines for Australia, hypersonic rockets in North Korea: Military posturing has turned the Far East into a dangerous place.
John Redwood, Conservative Home
The Government is strongly in favour of the Union of the UK. So is the Official Opposition. Scotland held a referendum and voted to stay in the Union. At the time all parties agreed it would be a vote for a generation, though the SNP now wobble over the desirability and timing of a much earlier re-run of the vote they lost. The rest of the Union has not campaigned for a vote about their membership. So why is there such nervousness about the subject?
