Transparency International
Foreign companies and financial centres aiding corruption in Africa
Timothy Ash, Kyiv Post
I read with interest this week the piece by Melinda Haring from the Atlantic Council looking at possible contenders for the next prime minister of Ukraine, assuming a win by President Volodymyr Zelensky's Servant of the People Party and other pro-Western reform parties at this weekend's parliamentary elections. Haring highlighted her top reform five, including:
Yi Fuxian, SCMP
China has inflated its population data so much that its status as the world's most populous country may be false. This happens so provinces can get education subsidies and Beijing can hide the results of decades of family planning.
Aurelia George Mulgan, East Asia Forum
Author: Aurelia George Mulgan, UNSW Japan's Upper House elections have traditionally offered an opportunity for a protest vote against incumbent governments, but there is little chance of such a vote unseating the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) and Komeito coalition on 21 July 2019. A record of voter apathy and low voter turnout at national elections since the LDP returned to power in December 2012 suggests that Japanese voters have lost faith in the opposition... Читать дальше...
Robert Zaretsky, WaPo
Why Simone Weil's critique of political parties resonates today.
Eleanor Albert, The Diplomat
Don't discount the damaging impact of escalatory rhetoric on both sides.
James Sutton, National Review
The complexity and bloodiness of liberalism's roots don't make it quite so condemnable as its critics imagine.
Robin Wright, New Yorker
The latest escalation between the United States and Iran is of a pattern with many of the Islamic Republic's confrontations with regional and international adversaries since the 1979 revolution.