Thai Protesters Test a Royal Redline
Tyler Roney, Foreign Policy
The biggest rallies in years are risking the wrath of royalists eager to use the lèse-majesté law.
Tyler Roney, Foreign Policy
The biggest rallies in years are risking the wrath of royalists eager to use the lèse-majesté law.
Alex Lo, SCMP
Sociologist Albert Hirschman’s famous study with the eponymous title is a humane examination of how people react to difficult, sometimes intolerable, situations directly affecting their lives and livelihoods
Ruth Ingram, The Diplomat
Qelbinur Sedik reveals the horrors she witnessed in the camps, where she was forced to teach Mandarin in 2017.
Sinead O'Sullivan, Irish Times
Giving Big Tech anti-competitive tax benefits undermines democracy globally
Helen Thompson, New Statesman
While the EU is fixated on avoiding economic retaliation during the Hong Kong crisis, the UK is joining the US in decoupling from China.
F. Kaplan, Slate
Two events last week underscore just how isolated Donald Trump’s America is in the world. The first was an Aug. 12 speech in Prague by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who managed to sidestep every pressing issue on European security and democracy. The second, two days later, was a U.N. Security Council vote, on extending an arms embargo against Iran, that the...
Alexei Tokarev, Worldcrunch
A Russian political analyst asks whether it is in Moscow's interest to send military forces into Belarus in support of embattled leader Alexander Lukashenko.
Danny Zaken, Al-Monitor
Israeli companies in the fields of cyber, water management, defense and even diamonds are lining up for launching business ventures in the United Arab Emirates.
Nigel Gould-Davies, Moscow Times
The people are driving the movement that could force out longtime leader Lukashenko.
William Pesek, Asia Times
Malaysia's economy is failing for many more reasons than just Covid-19
Adam Kredo, Free Beacon
Dmitri Trenin, Carnegie Moscow Center
Stewart Patrick, World Politics Review
When the United Nations commemorates its 75th anniversary next month, it will be in a somber mood. Well before COVID-19 hit, the Trump administration’s “America First” policies had deprived the world body of its traditional leader, the United States, while rising geopolitical frictions had paralyzed the U.N. Security Council. The coronavirus pandemic has...
Lynn Kuok, Nikkei
Region welcomes US support for UN tribunal ruling rejecting China's maritime claims
C Uday Bhaskar, National
How Beijing engages with Delhi after recent border tensions will have long-term implications for continental harmony
Jon Alterman, CSIS
On August 13, 2020, Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) announced they will normalize relations and forge a new relationship. President Donald Trump helped broker the deal, which includes an agreement from Prime Minister Netanyahu that Israel will suspend plans to annex areas of the West Bank.
M. Rubin, Nat’l Interest
Scholar Michael Rubin breaks down all the possibilities. He argues that no matter what: "the best thing American diplomats and officials can now do is step out of the way and not put roadblocks in the path to peace."
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
A new cold war is starting, and neither side seems interested in winning.
The Diplomat