Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 8, 2018

BBC: Trump and Kim

The meeting the world's been waiting for

The president of the United States meeting North Korea's leader will be, diplomatically speaking, A Huge Deal.

What will the two men be talking about?
Will their meeting make the world a safer place?
What impact will it have on the lives of North Koreans?
Will it mean Mr Trump and Mr Kim get a Nobel Peace Prize?
And what has ice-skating got to do with it?

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 8, 2018

Doubts on all sides in US as Trump-Kim summit looms -- Josh Lederman and Matthew Lee, AP

Beijing Sees 2018 as Watershed Year Reminiscent of 1989 -- Katsuji Nakazawa, Nikkei

Anti-Austerity Protests Rattle Jordan, Reverberating Across the Middle East -- Frida Ghitis, WPR

Trump's Iran policy pushes Tehran into the arms of China -- Wesley Dockery, DW

The U.S. Should Go Around Erdogan to Engage Turkey -- H. Steven Blum & Svante Cornell, RCW

The African Union: An exclusive club for brutish despots -- Tafi Mhaka, Al Jazeera

Merkel's Dark View of the World We Live In -- René Pfister, Spiegel Online

Europe’s Vanishing Calm -- Victor Davis Hanson, NRO

It's Time for a Coup in Venezuela -- Jose Cardenas, Foreign Policy

Is Bolivia’s Coca Policy Protecting Traditions, or Creating a Narco-State? -- Max Radwin, WPR

Former FBI agent Ali Soufan: ‘Isis is not over – it will take a different shape’ -- The Guardian

Google Walks Away From America's Security -- Michael R. Bloomberg, Bloomberg

World Leaders Didn’t Take Trump at His Word on Trade. Now They’re in a Pickle. -- Edward Alden, Council on Foreign Relations

G-7 Live Updates -- AP