Pena Nieto's Dangerous Trump Gamble
Daniel Pena, The Guardian
The beleaguered Mexican president, battered by one scandal after another, hopes that the meeting might boost his approval ratings. But will it backfire?
Daniel Pena, The Guardian
The beleaguered Mexican president, battered by one scandal after another, hopes that the meeting might boost his approval ratings. But will it backfire?
Stephen Sestanovich, Wall Street Journal
The analytical focus we choose has a policy implication. If Central Asian politics is all about identity, it may be hard for the United States to have much influence. But if institutions, especially ones with different interests, are the key, outsiders can play some role. The main actors in the Karimov succession are bound to ask what kind of relationship Washington can offer them. Ã The answer will matter, whatever their clan.
Pavin Chachavalpongpun, Japan Times
The junta's effort to blame recent terrorist attacks on its political opponents leaves the country more vulnerable to terrorism.
Andres Oppenheimer, MH
As a new wave of Cuban migrants floods Florida and Central America, nine Latin American nations have asked the Obama administration to end the U.S. special immigration privileges for Cuban refugees. And while some of these countries have dubious human rights credentials, they may be partly right.
Julia Baird, New York Times
In 2009, 5,609 people traveled to Australia in tiny cramped boats, seeking refuge. By 2012, it had rocketed to 25,173. Kevin Rudd, the prime minister at the time, vowed that no one who tried to get here by sea would ever be allowed to settle. The opposition party successfully ran on a slogan of âÂÂStop the Boatsâ in the next election, and by 2014-15, the numbers were down to 158. Now it is virtually zero. And the success of this approach has meant the number... Читать дальше...
George Eaton, New Statesman
Different year, same result. Jeremy Corbyn is set to win another landslide victory in the Labour leadership election. The long-anticipated Times/YouGov poll puts Corbyn ahead of Owen Smith by 62 per cent to 38 per cent: an even biggerà margin of victory than in 2015 (when he won 59.5 per cent).
Ali Omidi, Al-Monitor
Shared tactical objectives in Syria are likely to continue to drive Russian-Iranian cooperation despite the quick end to Moscow's use of the Hamedan air base.
Anna Borshchevskaya, Foreign Policy
Russia's military alliance with Iran is all about keeping Assad in power and America on its back foot, and even a short-lived partnership can do long-term damage to U.S. interests.
Tobias Schneider, War on the Rocks
It is the fiction of a national regime upheld by Assad that drives the worst abuses of this war, that obliges Alawite kids from the coastal mountains and the plains of Hama to fight their own countrymen in distant corners of a country long fractured into smaller fiefdoms beyond the reach of the state. The United States should not be complicit in this pretension. The Syrian state is gone for good. At this point, a quick decapitation might be preferable to a drawn-out implosion.
Eli Lake, Bloomberg View
Beijing's latest ploy on the disputed Senkaku Islands echoes Russian actions in Ukraine.
Daniel Drezner, Washington Post
Donald Trump is going to Mexico because he is losing. There is a small probability that this visit could reverse his electoral fortunes. But the odds are not in his favor.
Peter Morici, Fox News
The Republican Party foreign policy establishment has joined Democrats in roundly criticizing Donald Trump's background and undiplomatic temperament.
Josh Marshall, TPM
We have news tonight that tomorrow, in advance of his big immigration speech in Arizona, Donald Trump will travel to Mexico City to meet with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. This is such an outlandish idea it is not easy to make sense of it or predict its outcome. But a few key points are worth bearing in mind.
Charlie Gillis, Maclean's
Win or lose, Donald Trump has elevated a new kind of politicsâÂÂone of provocative non-accountability.
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
To maintain legitimacy, economic policy must seek to promote the interests of the many not the few.
Simon Saradzhyan, National Interest
Snap drills weren't a sign that Putin is about to march on Kyiv, but the fear they provoked is a reminder that Europe's security architecture needs an update.
Robin Wright, New Yorker
Adnani, the chief propagandist and strategist of ISIS, was killed on Tuesday. He was one of the organization's most viscerally and publicly aggressive leaders.
Nate Schenkkan, Foreign Policy
The tyrant of Uzbekistan assassinated his enemies, jailed anyone who spoke against him, and crushed human rights. Why did America so willingly look the other way?
Joschka Fischer, PS
The European Union emerged from a triumphant period of Western liberal internationalism that now appears to be in retreat, alongside the peace and order it once safeguarded. At a time when Europe needs bold, future-oriented leadership, many Europeans are instead looking to the nationalism and isolationism of centuries past.
Sholto Byrnes, The National
The idea of noninterference appears to be making a comeback.
Thomas de Waal, Carnegie Europe
The Russian and Turkish presidents are more comfortable with a world in which alliances are transient and traditional great powers set the agenda.