Michael Rubin, Nat’l Interest
Two unrecognized countries—Taiwan and Somaliland—have outperformed their larger, better-resourced neighbors in combatting the coronavirus pandemic, often while being denied information and resources made available to almost every other country.
D. Keyton & V. Gera, CS Monitor
Jim Geraghty, NRO
The bet that the United States could be partners with China was catastrophically wrong, an error that makes the intelligence failures on Iraq, 9/11, Vietnam, Pearl Harbor, and God knows what else look like small potatoes. Even to this day, an honest assessment of the actions of the Chinese regime are denounced as “scapegoating” or some sort of covert effort to excuse President Trump — who has made plenty of his own...
Guy Sorman, City Journal
The Western press is full of stories these days on China’s arrival as a superpower, some even heralding, or warning, that the future may belong to her. Western political and business delegations stream into Beijing, confident of China’s economy, which continues to grow rapidly. Investment pours in. Crowning China’s new status, Beijing will host the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Laurie Garrett, New Republic
Christopher Caldwell, Spectator
Financial Times
Fehim Tastekin, Al Monitor
Despite the new challenges posed by the novel coronavirus outbreak, Turkey is pressing ahead with military deployments in Syria’s Idlib and maintaining its tight grip east of the Euphrates River.
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Niall Ferguson, Boston Globe
Quentin Lopinot, CSIS
Zaal Anjaparidze, Jamestown
The agreement on Georgia’s electoral reform, signed between the ruling Georgian Dream (GD) party and the united opposition at the US Embassy in Tbilisi on March 8 (Ge.usembassy.gov, accessed April 13), appeared to bring some level political peace back to the country. According to the deal, brokered by the United States and European Union, the 150-seat Georgian parliament will be elected this October with a 1 percent threshold; 120...
Shanker Singham, Conservative Home
Xavier Vives, Project Syndicate
The COVID-19 pandemic represents a major opportunity for the European Union and the eurozone to act decisively on a common problem, thereby strengthening the bloc's solidarity and integration. So far, however, European leaders have failed to seize it.
P. Tonchev et al, ChinaFile
Edward Lucas, Times of London
Forget prosperity bringing democracy, Beijing’s grip is tightening at home and abroad
Yanzhong Huang, Foreign Affairs
How China Made the Most of the Pandemic It Unleashed
J. Carafano & I. Brzezinski, The Hill
Now is the time for all democracies to stand together and for American leadership to shine.
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Philip Gordon & Jeremy Shapiro, WOTR
The novel coronavirus is clearly a big deal — economically, politically, and socially. Students of the transatlantic relationship, like everyone else, are naturally taken with the effort to understand the possibly dramatic changes this pandemic will inflict upon the world. The problem is that we do not yet know how long the crisis will last, how bad it will be, or how it will play out.