Timothy Garton Ash with Politico EU
Timothy Garton Ash, professor of European studies in the University of Oxford, doesn't mince words about the challenges — and opportunities — facing the European Union as it tries to navigate its way out of the coronavirus crisis. His Europe’s Stories project is producing some surprising findings about what young people want from the Continent's politicians. Can they rise to the challenge?
Z. Wanat & E. Wax, Pol. EU
Europe's gastronationalists have a new excuse: recovery from the coronavirus crisis.
Muhammad Amir Rana, Dawn
WHILE the world continues its struggle against the pandemic, nations and organisations are also evaluating its human, economic and socio-psychological costs. The security threat matrix is increasingly being oriented around the perils of the virus, placing less focus on other non-traditional security challenges. Though the threat of terrorism has not shown any visible retreat — in some places it has even enlarged such as in Afghanistan — the world is failing to give... Читать дальше...
Jessie Lau, NS
Renewed resistance to China and successful handling of the coronavirus pandemic has led Taiwan to re-examine ideas about its identity – and its future.
Cleo Paskal, The Diplomat
The massive network of corruption now being unraveled has major geopolitical and security implications that reach far beyond India.
Jeff Hawn, CGP
It has been widely noted that the coronavirus pandemic and the accompanying global economic shock is likely to lead to significantly deeper ties between China and Russia. This is an acceleration of a trend that has been underway since 2008 and does not look to deviate anytime soon. There are still significant stumbling blocks to a highly integrated NATO-like alliance between China and Russia, including a history of mutual animosity and...
Helen Clark, Lowy Interpreter
Quick action by the government has helped prevent
widespread infection – and turned the tide of public distrust.
Kyodo
The WHO has been accused by U.S. and allies of turning a blind eye while China withheld information
Joel Kotkin, The Hill
For a generation, a procession of pundits, public relations aces and speculators have promoted the notion that our future lay in dense — and politically deep-blue — urban centers, largely on the coasts. Just a decade ago, in the midst of the financial crisis, suburbia’s future seemed perilous, with experts claiming that many suburban tracks were about to become “the next slums.” The head of...
Camilla Cavendish, FT
You cannot be in the urban swing of things if there is no swing
Hal Brands, Bloomberg
WASHINGTON – By all accounts, the U.S. government was not involved in the failed plot this month to overthrow President Nicolas Maduro in Venezuela. One would hope that the Central Intelligence Agency could do better than a farcical scheme that was disowned by the Venezuelan opposition, penetrated by regime security forces and disrupted as soon as it began.
Jakub Grygiel, The American Interest
To partner with a predator is to surrender. Some European diplomats are playing a dangerous game.