Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 4, 2018

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Jeet Heer, New Republic: Major hacking stories about Russia and China confirm that this is the age of cyber-war

On Thursday morning, the Department of Justice announced it was charging seven Russian intelligence agents—employed by the Russian Central Intelligence Agency equivalent, commonly known as the GRU—with hacking. The move came hot on the heels of British and Dutch officials accusing GRU agents of hacking investigations looking into chemical weapons attacks in Syria and the 2014 downing of an airliner over Eastern Ukraine.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- October 4, 2018

The new weapon against Russian cyber attacks: Naming and shaming -- Steve Ranger, ZDNet

The US and China are playing a dangerous game. What comes next? -- Washington Post

China Begins To Blink In The Trade War, And That's Good For Its Citizens -- Panos Mourdoukoutas, Forbes

What Trump’s new trade pact signals about China -- Andres Martinez, Reuters

Mike Pence: Trump’s fight with China just got personal -- Christopher Scott, Asia Times

Xi Jinping makes a Maoist bet on China's economy -- Nikkei Asian Review

Fan Bingbing’s mysterious disappearance: what it means for China’s elite -- Steve Rose, The Guardian

Paris bomb plot claims cloud Iran president's hopes of EU help -- AFP

Abbas misses a chance to help Palestinians -- Diana Buttu, Reuters

Catalonia: What would an economic split from Spain mean? -- Daniel Thomas, BBC

Russian journalist's faked murder remains a mystery -- Ihor Burdyga & Roman Goncharenko, DW

Bungling agents leave Putin exposed in the global spotlight -- Patrick Wintour, The Guardian

Alleged operations by Russia's spy agency GRU in recent years -- Al Jazeera

Is Brazil heading towards a military dictatorship? -- Raphael Tsavkko Garcia, Al Jazeera

Brazil elections 2018: What you need to know -- Al Jazeera

'A fighting war with the main enemy': How the CIA helped land a mortal blow to the Soviets in Afghanistan 32 years ago -- Christopher Woody, Business Insider