Could China Blockade Taiwan?
Simon Leitch, National Interest
Beijing could use a blockade to slowly strangle Taiwan into submission while avoiding or overcoming any realistic American military response.
Simon Leitch, National Interest
Beijing could use a blockade to slowly strangle Taiwan into submission while avoiding or overcoming any realistic American military response.
Kenneth Juster, WOTR
When I gave my farewell address in January as the U.S. ambassador to India, one issue threatened to overshadow the many accomplishments in our bilateral relationship — whether the United States would impose sanctions on India for its
Rebeccah Heinrichs, The Hill
To successfully maintain the relative peace the United States has enjoyed for decades, we must consider what would convince adversaries that we would make them regret attacking a vital interest. Deterrence is an art, not a science, and it takes a clear eyed assessment of a variety of factors that will vary from the leaders of one country to the next. An ideological objection to nuclear weapons themselves and an idealistic policy agenda could result in actions that tempt nuclear action. Читать дальше...
Martin Wolf, Financial Times
Its economic assets are too great and, while America could falter, that would be its choice and not its fate.
Paul Kolbe, Russia Matters
The United States has unveiled its overt response to Russia's SolarWinds cyber operation—the expulsion of 10 Russian Embassy personnel from Washington, along with new sanctions on Russian sovereign debt and on Russian IT firms that support Moscow's cyber intelligence operations. A "unseen" response promised by national security adviser Jake Sullivan, presumably cyber operations against Russian intelligence networks, has yet to publicly manifest. In response, Russia... Читать дальше...
Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times
As India suffers the world's worst coronavirus crisis, our New Delhi bureau chief describes the fear of living amid a disease spreading at such scale and speed.
Melinda Haring & Shelby Magid, TNI
As the world contemplates how to convince Putin to stand down, it should also pull out its collective purse and do something to make a tangible difference in the lives of those left behind.
Anna Sauerbrey, New York Times
BERLIN — For the past two and a half years, since it became clear that Chancellor Angela Merkel would not run for office again, there's been one great unresolved question in German politics: Who will succeed her?
Farid Kahhat, Worldcrunch
It's reasonable, here in Latin America, that left-wing politicians — as a way to establish their democratic credibility — would be asked to distance themselves from Venezuela's dictatorial regime. It's notable, here in Peru, both those who have and have not done so.
Ivan Preobrazhensky, Riddle
A major diplomatic spat is developing between Russia and the Czech Republic. Without question, this is the largest rupture in relations between the two countries since the collapse of the USSR and Czechoslovakia.
Michael Rühle, IPQ
Most hybrid threats are non-kinetic, yet in grappling with the concept of "hybrid" the West still manages to shoot itself in the foot. Not only are there many different definitions, there is also a lack of discipline in applying the term. For example, cyber and hybrid attacks are often used interchangeably; terms like "hybrid war" are bandied about as if the term "war" had no specific legal meaning anymore; and even smaller, non-existential hybrid activities are said to be extremely dangerous. Читать дальше...
Tatyana Stanovaya, Moscow Times
Consequently, the communication channels between the president and society are shrinking further and further.
Richard Evans, London Review of Books
ust over forty years ago, in 1980, I found myself by chance teaching for a semester at Columbia University, armed with the grandiose title of Visiting Associate Professor of European History, provided with a free apartment and paid a salary not far short of what I earned in a whole year as a lowly lecturer in the UK. I'd never been to the US and knew nothing about Columbia or indeed any other American university. The faculty mostly seemed rather elderly to me... Читать дальше...
Michael Rubin, 1945
The Biden administration has made no secret of its desire to negotiate with Iran.
B. Githing'u, Jamestown
Ansar al-Sunnah wa-Jamma (ASwJ) is the latest Islamist insurgency to emerge in southern Africa with links to Islamic State (IS), which has named the group Islamic State in Central African Province (ISCAP). ASwJ's emergence in October 2017 with the two-day occupation of Mocimboa da Praia (MdP), in hindsight, foreshadowed what was to come only three years later with the seizure of the city again in August 2020. The second MdP incursion was a highly coordinated, large-scale... Читать дальше...
B. Devlen, National Post
Observers are keeping a close eye on two recent developments: Russia has been amassing troops and weaponry on its border with Ukraine and closing parts of the Black Sea; and China has increased its provocations in and around Taiwanese airspace and territorial waters, as well as in the South China Sea.
James Stavridis, Bloomberg