America’s Summer Plague Belongs Entirely to Trump
David Frum, The Atlantic
David Frum, The Atlantic
Andrew Sheng & Xiao Geng, Project Syndicate
Longstanding and bipartisan pretensions of American exceptionalism, rising domestic concerns, and a lack of policy clarity suggest that, even if Donald Trump is voted out in November, the US-led cooperation the world needs will not soon emerge. But another four years of Trump would almost certainly make matters worse.
Robert Peston, Spectator
These may well be the defining few days of the Johnson government. Having failed to make a towering success of the initial response to the Covid-19 crisis – by his own admission on Times Radio this morning – the Prime Minister is now embarked on the kind of structural reform of the machinery of government that will determine whether...
Judah Waxelbaum, Jerusalem Post
Egypt is hellbent on ensuring any remnants of the Arab Spring come nowhere near their borders.
Anna Borshchevskaya, American Interest
A territorial dispute between Moscow and Tokyo illustrates the challenge mid-sized powers face in an era of great power competition.
Amos Hochstein, The Atlantic
Matt Taibbi
A core principle of the academic movement that shot through elite schools in America since the early nineties was the view that individual rights, humanism, and the democratic process are all just stalking-horses for white supremacy. The concept, as articulated in books like former corporate consultant Robin DiAngelo’s White Fragility(Amazon’s #1 seller!) reduces everything, even the smallest and most innocent human interactions, to...
Michael Penfold, FT
Forcing regime change has failed — however distasteful, talks are the only way forward
Kurt Volker, Center for European Policy Analysis
The Kremlin wants the rest of the world to believe that it has a special role and set of rights in the Black Sea. Too many Western policymakers fall for this. In truth, the political, economic, and security development of the region is important in its own right
Stephanie Segal & Dylan Gerstel, CSIS
We estimate IFIs have approved $117 billion in Covid-19-related support since January 27. The IMF has approved $77.1 billion, including emergency assistance and precautionary lines of credit, while the multilateral development banks (MDBs) combined have approved a total of $39.3 billion. Among the MDBs, the World Bank has approved $13.0 billion, followed by the European Investment Bank, which has approved $7.7 billion, and the Asian Development Bank... Читать дальше...
Jim Duffy, The Scotsman
As China flexes its muscles, Donald Trump needs an enemy to boost his flagging re-election hopes, writes Jim Duffy
Economist
Conservatives and climate activists, once political opposites, are joining forces
Robert Zaretsky, New York Times
As disease and war ravaged the nation, he left town and invented the essay.
Kevin Brown, The American Cons.
In India and China we have two nuclear-armed countries whose leaders are in no mood to back down.
Salvatore Babones, FP
China was winning over the innermost circle of U.S. allies. Now it’s driving them away.
David Reynolds, New Statesman
Seventy years ago, on 25 June 1950, North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, starting the Korean War. The actions of the combatants, and their superpower sponsors, still reverberate today.