Demetri Sevastopulo, New York Times
The US believes Beijing will quadruple its warhead arsenal by 2030. Could this alter the balance of power in Asia?
The Economist
Their shareholdings in tech firms and other private companies are soaring
Masha Gessen, New Yorker
The journalists of Novaya Gazeta report on dangerous conflicts—and endure threats of their own.
James Holmes, 1945
This week the Japan Times reported that Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense has issued its latest biennial military strategy document. (The Timesevidently laid hands on an advance copy. At any rate, nothing appears on the Defense Ministry website as of yet.) Declare the strategy's framers: "The first and foremost defense undertaking is to prevent war and deter any external military threats, and our...
Tong Zhao, New York Times
Without U.S. and Chinese willingness to enter a clear dialogue, the results could be catastrophic.
Adem Abebe, Foreign Policy
Ending the civil war will require a resolution to a dispute over territories and a national dialogue on federalism.
Jingdong Yuan, East Asia Forum
At its most recent meeting in Tajikistan this September, the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) started a formal process to grant Iran full membership. This will be the second time the organisation expands after accepting India and Pakistan in 2017 — now extending its reach from Central and South Asia to the greater Middle East.
James Bacchus, SCMP
Vali Kaleji, TNI
Although the Shanghai Cooperation Organization is a regional organization that is generally externally focused in its declarations and statements, it is internally focused in its practices and actions.
Monika Mondal, Diplomat
A focus on the power sector hides the fact that heavy industry, the key to developing countries' continued growth, is the second largest emitter.
Danny Russel, Foreign Affairs
Diplomacy Can't Repair the Relationship—But It Can Still Prevent Disaster
Jack Norton, ASPI Strategist
In an interview with ASPI Executive Director Peter Jennings, Shingo Yamagami said while AUKUS's initial focus would be Australia's acquisition of nuclear-powered submarines, Japan could help in other areas flagged in the agreement such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity and quantum technologies.
Vuk Vuksanovic, Balkan Insight
The Recent crisis in Bosnia has highlighted the adaptability - and limitations - of Turkish policy in the Balkans.
Al-Monitor
Also: Syrian Kurdish leader not worried — yet — about Turkish invasion (exclusive).
Sarah Chayes, Politico
You can win the war but lose the peace. That's a lesson Americans have been taught (not for the first time) by the conflict in Afghanistan. It's a lesson the Taliban is being taught today. With no cash reserves and no idea how to govern, with the country's spectacular fruit crops rotting in transport trucks lined up at closed borders, and the population struggling just to survive, Taliban rule is already tottering. That comedown gives the U.S. and its former coalition partners leverage over the group ... Читать дальше...
Mateo Szlapek-Sewillo, Lowy
A migrant crisis is the next episode in an ongoing Russian and Belarusian project to undercut the European Union.
Anne-Marie Slaughter, New York Times
A year after President Biden's election, we're beginning to see the contours of his foreign policy: He has something for everyone. For balance-of-power realists, he has countered China by working much more closely with "the Quad" — India, Australia, Japan and the United States — and creating a new British, Australian, U.S. nexus with the AUKUS submarine deal, no matter how clumsily handled.
