Новости за 03.06.2021

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Tilting towards China has not done it much good

Adhir R. Chowdhury, Indian Express

Our institutional weaknesses in terms of setting up oxygen plants or ramping up vaccination, the government's arrogant and disrespectful dismissal of all criticism as anti-national, have dealt a shattering blow to the Rising India story.

N. Goldberg, LA Times

Each time he fails to win an election or his government collapses, or he is accused of corruption, or, worse yet, indicted, new predictions of his political demise are circulated — only to be superseded, days or weeks later, by the story of his resurrection.

Rym Momtaz, Politico

PARIS ­— Listen closely to French Defense Minister Florence Parly and it almost sounds like France is going to miss Donald Trump's bullying at June's NATO summit.

Nury Turkel, Foreign Policy

China is trying to use the 2022 Games to whitewash Xinjiang atrocities.

Roger Boyes, Times of London

Chris Patten, Project Syndicate

A good relationship between free societies and China is not something that the communist regime in Beijing bestows. It is something that China must earn by respecting the rules and norms of international behavior and by recognizing other countries' sovereignty instead of just asserting its own.

T. Frank, Guardian

The potential consequences of the origins of the virus are shattering - if they can be proved

Felix Chang, FPRI
In August 2020, China fired what were reported to be anti-ship ballistic missiles (ASBM) into the South China Sea. The missile firings were the second time that China launched such missiles into the disputed waters. The first occurred in June 2019, when China fired six ASBMs into the area. Whether the two missile firings were launched against mobile targets or predetermined ones at sea is unclear, but it is likely that the ASBMs involved were DF-21D medium-range or DF-26 intermediate-range ballistic missiles. Читать дальше...

José Antonio Ocampo, Global Americans

The year 2020 closed with the worst economic crisis in Latin American history. The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) has estimated that the region's GDP fell by 7.7 percent. According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), this is one of the worst crises in the world, similar in...

Walter Pincus, Cipher Brief

OPINION — "The United States must now be prepared for conflict to extend to, or even to originate in or from, space."

Jacob Sullum, Reason

For decades, Western apologists downplayed the horrific consequences of China's reproductive restrictions..

Jenny Jun, War on the Rocks

Ransomware is really good at extorting money, and it can also be good at extracting geopolitical concessions. On May 7, Colonial Pipeline paid nearly $5 million to restore its systems after DarkSide used encryption to hold hostage the pipeline, which supplies nearly half of the East Coast's fuel to 50 million people. Then, late last month, the cyber insurance company CNA paid a staggering

Alex de Waal, Al Jazeera

Under the banner of national sovereignty, Ethiopia is subverting Africa's hard-won norms, principles and institutions.

Yuan Yang, FT

In its swing from restricting to encouraging births, Beijing cannot afford to repeat past mistakes.

Scott Jasper, Atlantic Council

President Joe Biden says that while "we do not believe the Russian government was involved" in the ransomware attack on Colonial Pipeline, there is "strong reason to believe that the criminals who did the attack are living in Russia." This coincides with reports that DarkSide

Joshua Kurlantzick, World Politics Review

Philippine Foreign Minister Teodoro Locsin Jr. was peeved at Beijing. It was early May, and hundreds of Chinese vessels had been regularly intruding into the Philippines' exclusive economic zone in the South China Sea, where the Chinese government has made expansive maritime territorial claims. After lodging numerous complaints through formal diplomatic channels to no avail,