Новости за 19.11.2020

A. Miller & R. Sokolsky, Politico

Tackling China will require time. But fixing things at home and doing some quick alliance repair demand attention now. Call it “America First” … with a smile.

Hannah Steinkopf-Frank, Worldcrunch
The West African country is training and arming everyday citizens to protect remote communities from terrorist groups. But some fear the strategy will lead to even more violence.

Bobby Ghosh, Bloomberg

Felix Chang, FPRI

In October 2020, Hong Kong’s air traffic control denied a Taiwanese flight access to Pratas Island, a Taiwan-occupied feature in the South China Sea. It was the first time that had ever occurred. The refusal, likely prompted by Beijing, might seem to be just another way for China to put pressure on Taiwan, which it has long regarded as a renegade province. But more broadly, the incident reflects a marked change in not only how China sees Taiwan’s remote outposts, but also... Читать дальше...

Emmanuel Macron with Group d'Etudes Geopolitiques

As the year 2020 draws to a close, with crises accumulating in France and Europe, the French President, in one of his longest interviews, outlined the main elements of his new doctrine on international affairs with le Grand Continent.

Majda Ruge, Foreign Policy
Fixing Trump's mistakes in the region will be easy. Avoiding Obama's will be much harder.

Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker

On the problem—and potential—of a seventy-year-old superpower.

Brian Mulroney, National Post
As I know from my own experience, an open door to the Oval Office opens many other doors for Canada

David Pilling & Andres Schipani, Financial Times

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Laurence Broers, EurasiaNet

Moscow at first responded to the war cautiously, but was in the end forced to intervene decisively. Was this a geopolitical coup or was Moscow’s hand forced?

Dimitar Bechev, Al Jazeera

Ankara managed to get a foothold in the South Caucasus, but Moscow still has the upper hand in the region.

Michael Fraiman, Maclean's

History is fond of remembering leaders during times of crisis. Wartime quotes by Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill are modern-day clichés; we laud the resolve of John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis, the decisiveness of Pierre Trudeau during the October Crisis, the rallying cries of Rudy Giuliani after 9/11—diminished though he now may be.

Glaser & Blanchette, SCMP

• Rumours of imminent military conflict must not be believed. To ensure US intentions are fully understood, the incoming Biden administration should re-establish robust dialogue with Beijing and strengthen communication between the two militaries

Stephen Bartholomeusz, SMH

There has been a spate of Chinese companies defaulting on their bond repayments in the past few weeks, sending anxious ripples through the market that have even touched China’s sovereign bond yields and caused its central bank to pump liquidity into its bond market to try to calm it.

Jenny Uglow, New York Review of Books

In Britain, as in the rest of Europe and the US, the Black Lives Matter movement and the severe effects of Covid-19 on Black, Asian, and other ethnic communities have sharply awoken many of us to the nation’s historic institutional racism. A report by Public Health England published in June found that nonwhite Britons had up to a 50 percent higher risk of death from the coronavirus than white Britons (for Bangladeshi Britons this rose to twice the risk). Читать дальше...