James Holmes, 1945
Back in August in the Washington Examiner, American Enterprise Institute senior fellow Michael Rubin (and a 1945 Contributing Editor) contended that Taiwan must go nuclear in the wake of the disastrous American withdrawal from...
Hou Hsin-tien, Taipei Times
Last week, a team of Taiwanese freedivers who were competing in the Individual Depth Freediving World Championship in Cyprus had a nasty surprise when the organizers, the International Association for the Development of Apnea, without warning, removed the team's national flag from a live feed of the event, leaving a blank space in its place. Later, the organizers issued a formal apology to Taiwan, saying that the stream had been cut off by Chinese authorities.
Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU
Outgoing chancellor switches to parliament role and conservative-Green coalition will stay in office.
Rory Stewart, Foreign Affairs
The extravagant lurches of the U.S. intervention in Afghanistan—from a $1 trillion surge to total withdrawal, culminating in the reestablishment of a Taliban government 20 years after the 9/11 attacks—must rank among the most surreal and disturbing episodes in modern foreign policy. At the heart of the tragedy was an obsession with universal plans and extensive resources, which stymied the modest but meaningful progress that could have been achieved with far fewer troops and at a lower cost. Читать дальше...
Niall Ferguson, Bloomberg
I tried to warn Mark Zuckerberg that he risked becoming part Rockefeller, part Hearst. But the rest of us don't have a good solution for what his platform has become.
Jerry Hendrix, Foreign Policy
The number of ships a country possesses has never been the sole measure of its power at sea. Other factors, of course, play a role: The types of ships it has—submarines, aircraft carriers, destroyers—the manner in which they are deployed, the sophistication of their sensors, and the range and lethality of their weapons all make a difference. Still, on the high seas, quantity has a quality all its own. And over the past several decades, U.S. ship numbers have seen a dramatic overall decline. Читать дальше...
Derek Scissors, RealClearWorld
India has a complex, diverse economy, and this often seems to paralyze policymaking. However, two sets of data published in September make it clear that India must create more non-farming jobs of high enough quality to pull people away from agriculture. Compared to this goal, everything else is a sideshow.
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