Week of August 10, 2020 Archives

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Monday, August 10
TikTok Is Inane. China’s Ambitions Are Not.
Niall Ferguson Bloomberg
Beirut’s Blast Is a Warning for America
Thomas Friedman New York Times
COVID Is a Great Time to Revisit Sartre
Robert Zaretsky Boston Globe
An Expensive Blind Eye to Global Affairs
John McLaughlin Ozy
U.S.-China Relations: What Now?
Jerome Cohen et al ChinaFile
What Next for America After 2020?
Kevin Williamson National Review
Let’s Hope What Comes Next Is a Better World
Tom Engelhardt TomDispatch
An ISIS Jailbreak in Afghanistan
Thomas Joscelyn The Dispatch
Europe Must Stand Up for Belarus
Benjamin Haddad & Ben Judah Foreign Policy
Protests Sweep Belarus After Improbable Election Tally
S. Kuznetsov Pol. EU
COVID Pushes Belgian Federal System to the Limits
Courtney Withrow WPR
A New Direction for India-U.S. Ties
Subramanian Swamy The Hindu
Avoiding the Japanification of Europe
Lucrezia Reichlin Project Syndicate


Tuesday, August 11
Serbia Sits at the Great-Power Crossroads
J. Carafano & L. Coffey National Interest
A ‘Nixon Moment’ in India-China Relations Is Unlikely
Raj Verma EA Forum
A New U.S. Policy Framework for the African Century
Judd Devermont CSIS
Unrest in Belarus
Moscow Times Moscow Times
Meltdown in Minsk
Amy Mackinnon Foreign Policy
How Italy Turned Around Its COVID Crisis
B. Latza Nadeau & L. Borghese CNN
The Cancel Culture Checklist
Jonathan Rauch Persuasion
Cancel Culture and Conservative Glass Houses
Shikha Dalmia The Week
Why Is China Coming After Americans Like Me in the U.S.?
S. Chu NYT
A Peek Into Our Nuclear Future
Henry Sokolski The American Interest
What Can a Pandemic Teach Us About Nuclear Threats?
Ted Lieu Bulletin
Fighting Russia’s Disinformation Pandemic
Veronika Velch & Vadym Miskyi RCW
The Stress on Our Political Leaders Is Insane
Jenna Price Sydney Morning Herald


Wednesday, August 12
I Was Sanctioned by China
Michael Abramowitz The Atlantic
The American Blog Pushing Xinjiang Denialism
Bethany Allen-Ebrahimian Axios
No, It’s Not Time for Another Russia Reset
David Kramer Politico
Australia’s Defense Strategy Points to Self-Reliance
R. Brabin-Smith EA Forum
Hong Kong Is Not Dead
Ben Bland Sydney Morning Herald
Can London Survive the Crisis?
Gerard Lyons Spectator
Will Beirut Cause a Global Shift in Storage Safety?
H. Steinkopf-Frank W’crunch
Why Nations Rush to Save Lebanon
Christian Science Monitor
Would a New Iran Deal Be Tougher?
Eli Lake Bloomberg
Reading the Dollar Doldrums
Mohamed El-Erian Project Syndicate
Look Beyond GDP to Rebuild Latin America
Alicia Barcena Americas Quarterly
Lukashenko Tries to Crush Protests Against His Rigged ‘Victory’
Econ.
Iraq’s New Government: What to Know
Nathalie Bussemaker CFR


Thursday, August 13
Present at the Disruption
Richard Haass Foreign Affairs
Nine Theses on U.S.-China Relations
Robert Blackwill National Interest
Twitter Diplomacy Makes the World More Dangerous
Alexi Drew WPR
Israel’s Political Odd Couple Could Be Headed for a Divorce
J. Mitnick FP
Turkey Claims It Is Under Blockade
Seth Frantzman Jerusalem Post
A Self-Reliant Foreign Policy for India
Sreeram Chaulia The Hindu
The End of American Dominance
Wade Davis Rolling Stone
The Thin Veneer of U.S. Civilization
Victor Davis Hanson National Review
The Old Transatlantic Relationship Is Gone for Good
Paul Taylor Politico EU
Can Malta’s Diplomacy Tip Balance in Libya?
Fehim Tastekin Al Monitor
Surveillance And Servitude: Pandemic's Sinister Legacy
A. Vassigh W’crunch
The Twin Struggles of Hong Kong and the Philippines
A. Montalvan Al Jazeera
Why Belarus Is Not Ukraine
Amy Mackinnon Foreign Policy


Friday, August 14
A Geopolitical Earthquake Just Hit the Middle East
Thomas Friedman NYT
Why the UAE Chose to Normalize Relations With Israel
Eli Lake Bloomberg
Trump’s Middle East Triumph
Mario Loyola National Review
UAE-Israel Deal Could Herald a New Dawn
The National
Trump’s Personal Diplomacy Won Out
Dominic Green Spectator
How the Israel-UAE Deal Came Together
Barak Ravid Axios
Israel Is the Winner, Saudis May Stand to Lose
Bilal Saab Foreign Policy
This Is a Big Deal, and a Big Win for Trump
Alex Ward Vox
Summer Recess Must Not Slow Brexit Momentum
Jayne Adye Commentator
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on Russia
Russia Matters
From Stilton to Feta, 5 Cheeses That Stunk Up Trade Deals
Moens et al Pol.
A Love Letter to Beirut
Sabine Hrechdakian Afar
Scenes of Torture Described in Belarus
Andrew Roth Guardian
Workers Begin to Turn Against Lukashenko
Sergei Kuznetsov Politico EU
Can Erdogan Reciprocate Macron's Beirut Stunt?
Fehim Tastekin Al-Monitor
The End of the Secular Republic
Yasmeen Serhan The Atlantic
Saturday, August 15
China’s Soft Power Grab
Colum Lynch Foreign Policy
Did Netanyahu Find His Legacy With UAE Deal?
Ben Caspit Al Monitor
Why Serbia’s President Doesn’t Want a Kosovo Deal
Austin Doehler RealClearWorld
Lebanon’s Crisis Should Make Iran Very Nervous
Con Coughlin The National
American Passports Are Useless Now
Yascha Mounk The Atlantic
Countering China's Counter-Intervention Strategy
M. Jamison Strategy Bridge
Uighur Poets on Repression and Exile
Joshua Freeman New York Review of Books
An Optimistic Future for Israel and UAE
Daniel Pipes National Interest
Time for Turkey to Call in the IMF
Desmond Lachman The Hill


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