Новости за 08.06.2020

Orville Schell, The Wire China

Center for Strategic and International Studies

H. Matfess & A. Noyes, WPR

As Mozambique enters the third month of its lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19, fighting between government troops and a shadowy Islamist militia has escalated significantly in the northernmost province of Cabo Delgado. According to the

Niall Ferguson, Bloomberg

Social unrest helped doom Lyndon Johnson's presidency. It may end up saving Trump's.

Christopher de Bellaigue, New York Review of Books

In the eighteenth century a career with the East India Company was a throw of the dice for unattached young British men. Arriving in India wan and scurvy after a year at sea, many quickly succumbed to disease, madness, or one of the innumerable little wars that the company fought in order to embed itself on the subcontinent. The salary was hardly an incentive. In the 1720s junior clerks, or “writers,” received just £5 per year, not enough... Читать дальше...

Financial Times

Donald Trump is handing the world’s autocrats a propaganda coup

Kori Schake, The Atlantic

Joe Biden has been wrong a lot on foreign and defense policy. A lot. This year’s presumptive Democratic presidential nominee voted against the 1991 Gulf War, in which the United States and a broad multinational coalition quickly achieved their goals, and in favor of the 2003 Iraq War, and regretted both votes. Years into hostilities, he opposed the

Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy

Donald Trump’s use of violence and division isn’t a symbol of authority—it’s a sign of desperation.

Daniel McCarthy, National Interest

In decades past the scenes of arson and looting that followed the Floyd protests in many cities would have driven voters to a Richard Nixon or Ronald Reagan—or a Donald Trump. The Campus America kids think the country has changed, and their parents and grandparents will now see the police as bullies who sadistically pick on their always well-meaning if sometimes troubled and delinquent, sons, and daughters.

Adam Garfinkle, American Interest

Depolarizing American politics depends on a better understanding of what inequality is, and how it relates to past and current ideological currents. First with COVID and now with the George Floyd events, we see that the time to act is growing short.

New York Post
Cheers to British Prime Minister Boris Johnson for offering millions of Hong Kongers visas and a path to UK citizenship if Beijing goes ahead with its horrible new "security law."

Bret Stephens, New York Times

With malice toward all; with charity for none.

The Economist, The Economist

The President's threat to send the troops into American cities alarms commanders.

Rorry Daniels et al, ChinaFile