Новости за 25.07.2016

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch
It's sometimes said of the dead that they've “crossed over.” In the context of our present world, I've started thinking of them as refugees of a sort -- every one of them uprooted from their lives (as we all will be one day) and sent across some unknown frontier into a truly foreign land. But if our fate is, in the end, to be the ultimate refugees, heading into a place where there will be no resettlement camps, assumedly nothing at all, I wonder, too, about the world after me... Читать дальше...

Amrita Jash, cogitASIA
Following a temporary thaw in China-Japan relations after the 2015 Security Talks, maritime territorial tensions have ramped up again in the East China Sea. In the recent talks between Premier Li Keqiang and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the sidelines of the Asia-Europe summit meeting (ASEM) in Mongolia, Abe raised concerns over China's expanding military activity in the East China Sea.

Seth Cantey, USA Today
The U.S. and its partners did just enough to make things worse. Next time, let Assad win.

Xenia Wickett & Jacob Parakilas, RCWorld
The growing anti-establishment backlash on both sides of the Atlantic may not swing November's election, but the world has fundamentally changed.

Jared McKinney, National Interest
It's the Republican Party that has changed, not China.