Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 2, 2017

Ralph Jennings, Forbes: Friendly Relations: Which Asian Leader Will President Trump Get Along With Most?

When Donald Trump makes his first trip to Asia as U.S. president, he will have the chance to meet heads of state from more than 20 countries including some of the world’s most powerful. Leaders around Asia hope Trump will cough up a coherent foreign policy for the 4.5 billion-person region as action so far leaves questions about the future of trade liberalization in view of his America-first ideals and about whether Washington will take a harder line toward China on Asian maritime disputes.

Trump will circulate at two annual regional meetings, one in Vietnam and one in the Philippines. He will travel separately to China, Japan and South Korea on the Nov. 3-14 trip, the State Department says.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 2, 2017

What Should Trump Say during His Upcoming China Trip? -- Joseph A. Bosco, National Interest

Allies Seek Reassurance From Trump’s Asia Visit. Can He Deliver? -- Judah Grunstein, WPR

China Takes an Expansionist View of Geopolitics -- Zhixing Zhang, Stratfor

China's Vision of Global Leadership Takes Shape -- Jack Goldstone, RCW

Why Is the U.S. So Susceptible to Social-Media Distortion? -- Stephen Marche, New Yorker

Turkey’s Idlib Incursion and the HTS Question: Understanding the Long Game in Syria -- Charles Lister, War On The Rocks

Iran unlikely to sit idle as US targets Hezbollah, PMU -- Ali Hashem, Al-Monitor

Sanctions on Iran Will Isolate the United States -- Rathna K. Muralidharan, RCD

Russia Uses Its Oil Giant, Rosneft, as a Foreign Policy Tool -- Clifford Krauss, New York Times

Abkhazia: Still Isolated, Still Proud -- Thomas de Waal, Carnegie Europe

Why Does Uzbekistan Export So Many Terrorists? -- Julia Ioffe, The Atlantic

New York attack: Is Central Asia a terrorism breeding ground? -- Peter Hille, DW

Jabhat Al Nusra and Al Qaeda: the riddle, the ruse and the reality -- Hassan Hassan, National

African Joint Force to “Bring the Fight & Terror” to Militants -- Kaitlin Lavinder, Cipher Brief

Could Trump send the New York terror suspect to Guantanamo? -- Ben Fox, The Associated Press