Ryan Bercaw, RealClearWorld
On Nov, 23, U.S. President Joe Biden and South Korean President Moon Jae-In announced ongoing joint efforts to finalize an end of war declaration document. The Korean War (1950-53) that killed an estimated 1.2 million Koreans and 40, 000 Americans never formally ended, but rather was...
Wei Luo, IA Review
On October 12, 2021, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un reviewed a rare exhibition of nuclear and conventional weapons, an armament exhibition meant to celebrate the 76th birthday of the ruling Workers' Party. While most of the attention has been drawn to nuclear-tipped missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), recent North Korean military modernization has not been limited to nuclear and strategic weapons alone. From surface-to-air missiles (SAM)...
John Feffer, TomDispatch
What alt-right guru Steve Bannon failed to create, German taxpayers have just stepped in to revive: a Nationalist International. Thanks to the German government, the far right is about to get its own well-heeled global think tank, complete with the sort of political academy that was so dear to Bannon's plan for world domination.
Micah Meadowcroft, The American Conservatives
With its striking visuals, Zemmour's announcement speech is worth watching even if you don't speak French, and it is certainly worth reading in its entirety. But allow me to highlight a couple passages that I find to be particularly evocative in light of the nationalist moment globalist media figures keep breathlessly saying was kicked off by Brexit and the election of Trump. There is nothing new under the sun, and perhaps...
C. Jaffrelot, Inst. Montaigne
Three questions to Christophe Jaffrelot, Senior research fellow at CERI-Sciences Po, for Institut Montaigne.
David Herszenhorn, Politico EU
Top United States officials say they are worried Russia is aiming to heat things up in Ukraine, with troops positioned along the border for a potentially imminent invasion. However, Russian President Vladimir Putin may have precisely the opposite in mind: deepening the freeze of the conflict in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region as his best, and perhaps only, guarantee that Ukraine won't join NATO.
Stephen Grenville, Lowy Interpreter
It is 20 years since Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O'Neill invented the BRIC economic grouping - Brazil, Russia, India and China - with South Africa added later to make up the BRICS. He celebrated this anniversary with a self-congratulatory article in the Financial Times, expressing his disappointment...
David Engel, ASPI Strategist
If the Australian government is serious about tackling trolls, it may need to start giving some thought to the latest effort of Russian President Vladimir Putin and what it says implicitly about Australia's standing in parts of Southeast Asia.
Hyung-a Kim, East Asia Forum
With less than four months to South Korea's presidential election on 9 March 2022, the contest is turning into a quasi-life-or-death round of Squid Game amid scandals involving the ruling Democratic Party's (DP) frontrunner Lee Jae-myung, former governor of Gyunggi province, and the main opposition People Power Party (PPP) frontrunner Yoon Seok-youl, former prosecutor-general. Both Lee and Yoon are campaigning on fairness and justice, prompting political cynicism especially among young people. Читать дальше...
C. Lynch & R. Gramer, FP
If any outside power could help Sudan chart a path to democracy, it should have been the United States.
P. Michael McKinley, Foreign Affairs
Why the United States and Its Allies Must Act Now to Prevent a Humanitarian Disaster
Michael Rubin, Middle East Quarterly
Ali Khamenei, Khomeini's successor as supreme leader, continued Tehran's quiet outreach justified on shared enmity with the Russians toward Washington and on economic opportunism. Some Iranians raised questions about inherent ideological compromise, but regime officials tried to explain this away. In 2012, for example, a website affiliated with the supreme leader denied any parallels between the Palestinian plight and Muslim minorities in Russia or China. Читать дальше...
