'The Intelligence Coup of the Century'
Greg Miller, Washington Post
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
Greg Miller, Washington Post
For decades, the CIA read the encrypted communications of allies and adversaries.
Alexander Vershbow, Atlantic Council
The New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) entered into force nine years ago and will expire on February 5, 2021, just a few days after the inauguration of the next US president. The treaty limits the strategic nuclear warheads and intercontinental delivery systems of the United States and Russia in a balanced and verifiable effective manner, Both sides have fully complied with the treaty.
Yasmeen Serhan, The Atlantic
The country’s surprising election results are a rejection of the status quo.
John Ivison, National Post
If Frontier is turned down, someone is going to get the blame – and Kenney is worried it may be him
Elizabeth Economy, Foreign Affairs
Can China Control an Epidemic From the Top Down?
Tara Varma, ECFR
The French president reached out to the rest of Europe on Russia, the transatlantic relationship, and European solidarity.
Robert Worth, New York Review of Books
Syria’s unfinished civil war may be the most amply documented conflict in history. Much of it has been broadcast live, with participants and observers posting breathless, hand-held footage from the first ecstatic protests in 2011 to the many lurid horrors that came afterward. Yet this tsunami of images seems often to obscure rather than clarify a complex war with many sides. The fact that photos and video clips have been so often adopted and brandished... Читать дальше...
Lindsay Maizland, Council on Foreign Relations
Robert Ross, Responsible Statecraft
“Rising to the China Challenge,” a new report issued by the Center for a New American Security, offers proposals for a comprehensive U.S. response to China’s challenge to U.S. regional security and global interests. It is certain that China presents a critical challenge to U.S. security and thoughtful policy analyses can make valuable contributions to the national policy debate. Unfortunately,...
Xiao Qiang, Project Syndicate
Although the global coronavirus epidemic has only recently made international headlines, some in China have known about it since the beginning of December. Thanks to Chinese President Xi Jinping's high-tech dictatorship, that information was not made public, and the virus was allowed to take off.
Madeleine Albright & Igor Ivanov, New York Times
Two former diplomats, from Russia and America, call for extending the nuclear arms limitation pact called New START, to make the world more secure.
Jamil Anderlini, Financial Times
Throughout Chinese history, the reign of an imperial line was believed to follow a pattern known as the dynastic cycle. A strong, unifying leader establishes an empire that would rise, flourish but eventually decline, lose the “mandate of heaven” and be overthrown by the next dynasty.