Desmond Lachman, 1945
In 2009, when asked why Citibank kept lending aggressively on the eve of the US housing and credit market bust, Chuck Prince famously said that as long as the music is playing you've got to get up and dance. How quickly the world's major central banks seem to have forgotten the 2008-2009 Great Economic Recession that occurred when that round of easy money music stopped playing. Had they remembered, they might have long...
Michael Rubin, National Interest
There is a difference between recognizing that Erdoğan is not Turkey and denying that he has reshaped the country into something that will never again be a partner like it once was.
Ian Johnson, Council on Foreign Relations
Little of substance was expected of the Monday night meeting, but Biden said the two sides had to establish "guardrails" to prevent a clash, while Xi said he was glad to see his "old friend."
G. Menabde, Jamestown
On November 8, the Blue Ridge-class command-and-control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) arrived in Batumi, Georgia (1tv.geNovember 8). According to a statement released by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), "The port visit highlights an important relationship between NATO allies and vital Black Sea partner Georgia. Georgia has been a consistent and steadfast...
Tom McTague, The Atlantic
A worsening crisis in Northern Ireland carries far greater costs than simply domestic political fallout.
S. Graziosi & J. Carafano, RCW
American politics may be looking more like Italian politics. That isn't necessarily a good thing for bilateral relations.
Terry Glavin, NP
It's all to the good that newly inducted Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly joined with her counterparts in the United States and the United Kingdom this week in slapping new sanctions on the thug regime of Nicaraguan caudillo Daniel Ortega.
Tom Rogan, Examiner
As concerns grow that Russia may launch an offensive against Ukraine, Moscow is further boosting its combat power on Ukraine's southern flank, establishing an airborne infantry regiment on the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia has occupied since 2014.
Economist
The two presidents spoke about managing dangerous tensions, but an ice age looms.
Ted Galen Carpenter, The American Conservative
The long-simmering feud between Belarus and several of its NATO neighbors (especially Poland and Lithuania) over the flow of refugees from the Middle East is escalating rapidly. On November 10, the European Union accused Belarus of mounting a "hybrid attack" by pushing migrants across the border into Poland....
Fred Kaplan, Slate
Back in June, Joe Biden outlined three reasons for holding a meeting with another world leader, Vladimir Putin, despite the dim chances of producing major results. First, he had long felt there was "no substitute for face-to-face dialogue among leaders." Second, he and Putin, as possessors of vast nuclear arsenals, shared "a unique responsibility" to maintain "stable and predictable" relations. Third, "we should be able to cooperate when it's in our...
Robert Kaplan, Spectator
March 1917: The Red Wheel, Node III, Book 3 by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn reviewed
Michael Schuman, The Atlantic
The country is in the grip of the most concerted government campaign to assert greater control over its people in decades.
Gordon Chang, The Hill
China's Communist Party has been, in a real sense, attacking America. Beijing, for instance, took steps that spread COVID-19 beyond China's borders; Chinese "money brokers" are enabling Mexican-based gangs selling China's fentanyl; Chinese hackers and government agencies are engaging in a determined effort to steal U.S. technology and
Maximilian Hess, Riddle
Max Hess looks at how the post-Karimov era in Uzbekistan has been a strikingly fruitful one for Russia-Uzbek relations
C. Stelzenmüller, FT
Berlin's allies are concerned that the incoming government may distance itself from the alliance's deterrence strategy
Oksana Rasulova, Worldcrunch
Seven years after Moscow annexed Crimea, arrests and trials of Crimean Tatars are used as weapons to repress this ethnic minority that has already suffered for centuries.
Marc Espanol, Al Monitor
Rebel leaders who integrated into the transitional bodies through the civilian side after the 2020 Juba Peace Agreements have allied with the military, but some defiance remains.
Moscow Times
Regulator says Gazprom-owned operator needs to establish German subsidiary before it can approve the pipeline.