Austin Doehler, RCWorld
The Kosovo-Serbia dialogue has been taking place off and on since 2011. Instigated by the European Union, the dialogue is a series of negotiations aimed at normalizing relations between the two countries. The Trump administration has taken a keen interest and active role in the dialogue, and it appointed Richard Grenell as special envoy to the negotiations in October.
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Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian, Axios
Axios has obtained a Chinese government request sent to the Turkish government for a Uighur man who fled Xinjiang amid worsening repression.
Ben Caspit, Al Monitor
New Defense Minister Benny Gantz has a year and a half in front of him to prepare for the role of prime minister
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Rym Momtaz, Politico EU
The president’s La République en Marche group has lost 26 members in parliament since he was elected.
Graham Allison, National Interest
This is an Olympic shotput analysis of Trump's overseas performance.
Henry Paulson, Foreign Affairs
The Future of the Dollar
U.S. Financial Power Depends on Washington, Not Beijing
Patrick Minford, CapX
Don't believe the Delayers, not leaving by the end of this year means huge costs for the UK
Louise Watt, Time
When they heard about patients falling sick with a mysterious pneumonia in the Chinese city of Wuhan on Dec. 31, Taiwan’s health officials fired off an email to the World Health Organization asking for more information.
P. Toynbee, G’dian
No government could have been completely ready for the pandemic, but taking the public for fools has destroyed all trust.
Andrew Michta, ICDS
The West should have a comprehensive China strategy.
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Andrew Small, ECFR
Europe is in the nascent stages of a new debate about China. Last year, the European Union published a strategic outlook paper in which it labelled China as a “systemic rival”, reflecting a sharp change in its balance of assumptions about the Sino-European relationship. The pandemic is tilting that balance further. This is certainly not happening out of preference: European policymakers would rather address the...
Alessandro Lanuto, World Politics Review
In early March, Lombardy, Italy’s most prosperous region, was fast becoming the epicenter of a global pandemic. As the number of coronavirus cases spiked above 7,000, with more than 350 deaths, the Italian government moved to quarantine the worst-affected towns in Lombardy and the rest of northern Italy, a move that was almost unthinkable at the time, with police setting up checkpoints to control traffic in and out.
Noah Barkin, Foreign Policy
In the growing confrontation with China, Europe is starting to take sides—just not America’s.
Fred Kaplan, Slate
It is a brazen thing when a country like Australia so openly criticizes both China (its leading trade partner) and the United States (its guarantor of security). It is more remarkable still that, as the Times puts it, “a fluid working group has emerged” among Australia and other countries of similarly modest global stature—Denmark, Greece, Israel, Singapore, and New Zealand—all of them emboldened by the clear fact that they have handled the COVID-19 crisis more transparently and effectively than the larger powers... Читать дальше...