Новости за 16.08.2016

Dan Larison, American Conservative
Clinton is one of the few candidates in the last century to campaign explicitly on a very hawkish platform while still being favored to win the general election.

Walter Russell Mead, The American Interest
The liberal cosmopolitan view, that all other faiths must ultimately crumble before its majesty and appeal, that every knee must bow and every tongue confess that liberal cosmopolitanism is the One True Idea, is, to put it as inoffensively as possible, not proven. But it is the faith in which much of the American political establishment has been raised and, while some of our rulers are hypocrites mouthing liberal platitudes in order to gain power, the... Читать дальше...

Zack Beauchamp, Vox
Donald Trump's big foreign policy speech was nonsense, in the most literal sense of the word.

Robert Merry, National Interest
Donald Trump's foreign-policy speech at Youngstown, Ohio, on Monday calls to mind the first issue of William Buckley's National Review, in which the young editor audaciously declared his magazine "stands athwart history, yelling Stop." The country was moving in a decidedly liberal direction at the time, but nine years later the Republicans nominated the National Review darling, Barry Goldwater. Sixteen years after that, the country elected Ronald Reagan, about as... Читать дальше...

Robert Rotberg, Globe and Mail
South Sudan, Africa's youngest state, is ripe for rescue by China. Given the vicious bloodletting and ferocious fratricide engulfing the country, and given the inability of the African Union and United States to broker an effective peace, intervention and assistance by China provides South Sudan with its only viable lifeline.

Malcolm Rifkind, Daily Telegraph
It may sound like fantasy. It may be fantasy. But it is a worst case scenario that some security experts predict could occur if the Government proceeds with the Hinkley Point C nuclear reactor with Chinese involvement.

Anthony Fontes, New York Times
On July 18, Guatemala's most infamous — and powerful — prisoner, Byron Lima Oliva, was shot to death in the Pavón prison outside Guatemala City. While it was a fellow prisoner who, the authorities said, put two bullets in Mr. Lima's head, in all likelihood the intellectual authors of the killing hail from the highest echelons of the state and the moneyed elite. In Guatemala, it is often impossible to tell where the state ends and the underworld begins.

Antonello Veneri, Vice
The Brazilian city is the spirit of the carnival and the 14th most violent city of the world.

Brett Stephens, Wall Street Journal
An incident at the Olympics shows that Arab world has a problem of the mind.

Christian Bohm, Worldcrunch
SIMBACH — This small German town looked like a war zone. Streets were torn open, houses abandoned, containers stuffed. Torrential rain had completely destroyed this corner of western Germany. Images of the destruction went around the world.Â

Beimeng Fu, BuzzFeed
In a world devoid of debunkers and fact-checkers, conspiracy theories — like the one saying a DNC staffer was murdered for leaking emails — can go big in China.

Ingrid Rowland, New York Review of Books
His imagination ranged from a place beyond the spheres of Heaven to the uttermost depths of Hell, but for many of his earliest admirers the most striking aspect of his art was what they described as its “truth to nature.”

Paul Roderick Gregory, Forbes
Reforms seem unlikely. Premier Xi has declared the state sector the 'backbone' of the economy. Party cadres have been instructed to take the teachings of Karl Marx seriously. Private businesses do not hold out hope for equal and fair treatment under Xi's socialism with a Chinese face. Successful business owners will continue to plan their emigration to Canada or Australia before the long arm of the state and party catches up with them. China's puzzle has been it rapid... Читать дальше...

Samuel Chi, CNN
American athletes are making noise about competing clean at the Rio Olympics. But the U.S. has had plenty of doping problems of its own.

Allan Hennessy, Independent
According to think tank Britain Future, athletes whose immediate family came to Britain from overseas won 24 of the 65 medals Britain claimed in the 2012 Games.

Jeremy Warner, Telegraph
There are few Remainers who would have been more dispirited by the vote to leave the European Union than the former British Prime Minister, Sir John Major.

Fred Barnes, Weekly Standard
Donald Trump delivered a strong speech Monday on thwarting terrorists and crushing ISIS while cleverly disguising it as an address on national security policy.

Alan Berger, Boston Globe
Donald Trump will need to grasp a web of shifting alignments across the Middle East and North Africa.

Kimiko De Freytas-Tamura, NYT
LONDON — Until Britain voted to leave the European Union, Philip Levine never thought deeply about his Jewish heritage. But looking for a way to ensure that he could still work and live in Europe once Britain leaves the bloc, Mr. Levine, 35, who was born in Britain and lives in London, decided to do what some Jews, including his relatives, might consider unthinkable: apply for German citizenship.

Gideon Rachman, Financial Times
The country is becoming a lightning rod for Chinese anger towards the west.

Red Jahncke, Bloomberg View
Points systems attract skilled labor while controlling the kind of immigration that produced the Brexit backlash.