Katja Yafimava, Moscow Times
Opinion | The ongoing European gas supply crunch this winter has demonstrated the limitations of EU diversification efforts.
Nick Burns, Americas Quarterly
Traditional parties are in the political wilderness. Could emulating Biden's 2020 run beat AMLO's movement?
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
In threatening to repudiate its deal with the EU, the UK is undermining its credibility as a reliable partner
Alexandre Robinet-Borgomano, Institut Montaigne
The Ministry of Finance in Berlin is located in an enormous grey building characterized by its straight lines - a model of Nazi architecture. During the Second World War, it served as the headquarters of the Luftwaffe, the German Air Force. It is there that the SDP candidate, Vice-Chancellor and Finance Minister Olaf Scholz bides his time. Currently in charge of leading the coalition negotiations with the Greens and the liberal Free Democratic Party... Читать дальше...
Sean Durns, Washington Examiner
Taiwan is in trouble. With Taiwan may go the freedom of Asia and beyond.
Jeremy Cliffe, New Statesman
In central and eastern Europe, politicians know that the West will no longer intervene to stop hostile acts against international order.
Dani Rodrik, Project Syndicate
The structure of great-power rivalry may exclude a world of love and harmony, but it does not necessitate a world of immutable conflict. Structure is not destiny: It does not preclude any of the myriad alternatives that lie between these extremes.
Economist
Michael Peck, 1945
China's Marine Corps is becoming more like the U.S. Marine Corps, suggests a new Pentagon report. That could have serious implications.
Daniel Lehewych, Big Think
Philosophy, along with mathematics and logic, is one of humanity's oldest intellectual disciplines. And since its inception — which in the West usually dates back to the Greek pre-Socratic philosopher Thales of Miletus (624/623 BCE - 548/545 BCE) — philosophy has had its skeptics and anti-philosophers. Indeed, throughout the history of philosophy, some of the biggest doubters of philosophy were themselves philosophers.
Jeffrey Wilson, FP
The bottom line: Beijing's attempt to bully Canberra has been a spectacular failure.
Benn Steil & Benjamin Della Rocca, Foreign Affairs
In March 2021, analysts projected that revenues at Evergrande Group, China's second-largest real estate developer, would grow by 70 percent this year. In September, however, the property behemoth—with some $300 billion in outstanding debt—missed $131 million in interest payments. When Beijing didn't come to its rescue, shocked investors were caught flatfooted.
