Thursday, May 3, 2012

Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials -- May 3, 2012



A Car Chase, Secret Talks and Second Thoughts -- Jane Perlez and Andrew Jacobs, New York Times

BEIJING — Injuries suffered in the course of a daring nighttime escape. A covert appeal from underground activists to top State Department officials for humanitarian protection. A car chase through the streets of Beijing to spirit a dissident to safety inside the fortified American Embassy.

Those are among the new details that emerged Wednesday from the 10-day saga of Chen Guangcheng, the blind rights lawyer who escaped house arrest in rural Shandong Province, and then, after managing to reach Beijing and come under American protection, was the subject of a series of highly unusual secret negotiations with the Chinese government.

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Commentaries. Opinions, And Editorials

China Syndrome
-- Walter Russell Mead, American Interest

A viable plan for making Afghanistan safe from terror -- Julian Lewis, The Telegraph

Does deal mark new era in US-Afghan relations? -- Dawood Azami, BBC

Weekly Standard: The War Beyond Afghanistan -- Daniel Halper, NPR

Obama's strategic retreat in Afghanistan -- Jeremi Suri, CNN

In Afghanistan, US prepares to go, and to stay -- The National editorial

America is rightly weary of the long and unwinding war in Afghanistan -- New York Daily News

A Glimpse of North KoreaTravels in the Empire of Kim Jong Un -- Spiegel Online

The Clash of Eurasian Grand Strategies
-- Raffaello Pantucci, Alexandros Petersen, National Interest

The anarchy factor in Syria -- Itamar Rabinovich, Toronto Star

Greece: Civil war, but not as you know it -- Antonis Vradis, Al Jazeera

Moscow Sends Missile Message to NATO -- Alexey Eremenko, RIA Novosti

Devolution and the separation of the English mind -- Martin Kettle, The Guardian

If Hollande wins French election, Europe won't collapse – just shift a bit -- Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff, Christian Science Monitor

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