Chris Buckley, New York Times
The glowing image of China's top leader, Xi Jinping, greets visitors to museum exhibitions celebrating the country's decades of growth. Communist Party biographers have worshipfully chronicled his rise, though he has given no hint of retiring. The party's newest official history devotes over a quarter of its 531 pages to his nine years in power.
James Jeffrey, Spectator
There have been stunning developments recently in Ethiopia's grinding conflict between the national government and Tigrayan rebels in the north.
John Gray, New Statesman
The late David Graeber's history of early human societies presents civilisation as a descent from anarchy into servility. But was man ever free?
Daniel Mahoney, City Journal
An excellent new book on the work of Harry Jaffa is also an appeal to Americans to fight for our civic and civilizational inheritance.
C. Atlamazoglou, 1945
NATO membership for Ukraine won't offer any added security benefits to the U.S. and its European allies, and perhaps start a war with Russia.
Annie Fixler, FDD
Peng Huagang, secretary general of China' State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission, confirmed last month that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will "promote the restructuring of rare earths to create a world-class company." While it remains unclear what this "restructuring" entails, Peng's declaration indicates the CCP will not stand by as the United States and its allies seek to diminish their reliance on China for rare earth...
A. Srdanovic, Russia Matters
On Sept. 23, 2021, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the annual National Defense Authorization Act(NDAA), which, if it becomes a law, would provide over $700 billion to further America's defense policies and priorities.
Dominic Lawson, Times of London
he gap between rhetoric and fact is a perennial feature of politics. But seldom can the chasm between claim and reality have been as wide as that displayed by Alok Sharma at the Cop26 conference in Glasgow. The British president of the latest intergovernmental climate change gathering told the delegates (and the world's media) that "the end of coal is in sight", as a result of the agreement he had negotiated.
Martin Sandbu, Financial Times
A clear commitment to blue hydrogen would help the EU achieve its ambitious climate goals
Lindsey Kennedy & Nathan Paul Southern, FP
On the sleeper train from Tashkent to Nukus, a drunk Uzbek army officer wants to know where we're from. "England" is met with a noncommittal shrug. On hearing "Scotland," though, his face lights up. "Scotlandia!" he slurs, miming bagpipes. "Braveheart!" In a mix of fluid Russian, broken English, and animated mime, he expresses a sentiment we hear again and again, all across the country: Scotland is to the United Kingdom as Uzbekistan is to Russia—only in Uzbekistan's case... Читать дальше...
