Новости за 27.11.2021

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And why this is alarming

Tim Culpan, Bloomberg

For the past decade, political, economic and cultural ties between China and Taiwan have withered under the strain of an increasingly assertive Beijing and a Taipei that refuses to bend under its will.

Alma Guillermoprieto, The New York Review of Books
Sergio Ramírez, the illustrious historian, novelist, and former vice-president of Nicaragua, could well have been among his unfortunate friends and many

Daniel Fried, John Herbst & Alexander Vershbow, Atlantic Council

War drums are beating in Europe. For the second time this year, Moscow is assembling up to 100,000 troops and military hardware on its border with Ukraine. The Biden administration judges that there is a real possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin may decide to launch a new invasion of Ukraine in the next 2-3 months despite the high costs Moscow would incur.

Matthew Karnitschnig, Politico EU

The traffic-light coalition has promised to renew Germany across the board.

John Bolton, 1945

During the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, after learning Nikita Khrushchev had broken his commitment not to deploy nuclear-capable ballistic missiles on the island, John F. Kennedy called Khrushchev a "f*cking liar" and an "immoral gangster." Hours later, JFK told his senior advisors, "we certainly have been wrong about what he's trying to do in Cuba."

Miranda Green, Financial Times

Boris Johnson, a would-be Churchill, stumbles, while Keir Starmer dreams of repeating Clement Attlee's postwar victory

Yupina Ng, Al Jazeera

The national security law and its chilling effect on our civil liberties compelled me to leave my home.

Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor

Defense Minister Benny Gantz signed this week in Rabat a landmark cooperation agreement with Morocco — the first such agreement signed by Israel with an Arab state.

N. Roubini & B. Rosa, Project Syndicate

With its poor track record of managing EU funds, Italy's recovery plan will be a major test for the future of EU policymaking more generally. While it is widely agreed that Prime Minister Mario Draghi must remain on the scene to oversee the plan's implementation, in what capacity would he be most useful?

N. Gould-Davies, Mos. Times
Opinion | A volatile mix of revanchism, insecurity, irrationality and military force is fueling tension and turbulence in the EU's east.

Alex Massie, Spectator

The SNP are holding their annual conference this weekend and, the times being what they are, it is a virtual affair. Speeches have been recorded in advance and I understand at least one cabinet minister was informed his first effort failed to meet the required standard and needed to be recorded again. Perhaps it was insufficiently boosterish.

Bruno Maçães, New Statesman

Haunted by the fall of the Soviet Union, the Russian president is using the pandemic, the climate crisis, migration and looming conflict to turn chaos into power.

George Friedman, Geopolitical Futures

Russia, from its point of view, has to at least mitigate the threats of the Soviet era. So the pressures on Russia are great, but there are plenty of opportunities to act. Russia tends to move deliberately, but reality might not give it the option. The Americans are, among other things, unpredictable these days.

Claudia Escobar Mejía, Foreign Affairs
Why Washington needs to get tough on Central American kleptocrats.

Oliver Stuenkel, AQ

Five reasons a "third way" candidate will struggle to break through in a polarized contest.