Friday, December 14, 2018

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 14, 2018

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Graham Allison, National Interest: China and Russia: A Strategic Alliance in the Making

Defying the long-held convictions of Western analysts, and against huge structural differences, Beijing and Moscow are drawing closer together to meet what each sees as the “American threat.”

THE YEAR before he died in 2017, one of America’s leading twentieth-century strategic thinkers, Zbigniew Brzezinski, sounded an alarm. In analyzing threats to American security, “the most dangerous scenario,” he warned, would be “a grand coalition of China and Russia…united not by ideology but by complementary grievances.” This coalition “would be reminiscent in scale and scope of the challenge once posed by the Sino-Soviet bloc, though this time China would likely be the leader and Russia the follower.”

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 14, 2018

In Afghanistan, a Rushed Peace Will Be a Short Peace -- The Diplomat

The Afghanistan of Today is Not Yet Ready for Peace -- Chayanika Saxena, The Wire

Is Afghanistan ready for a #MeToo movement? -- Masood Saifullah, DW

UN's former envoy to Somalia is upbeat about its future -- Daniel Pelz, DW

Brexit Britain: Small, boring and stupid -- Ryan Heath, Politico

From Sans Culottes to Gilets Jaunes: Macron’s Marie Antoinette Moment -- Sylvain Cypel, New York Review Of Books

Ukraine-Russia tensions reach Greece’s holy Mount Athos -- Shaun Walker, The Guardian

Populism and paralysis in the West: By spring 2019, 'our politics will be even more poisonous than now' -- Patrick Buchanan

The Divide Between Silicon Valley and Washington Is a National-Security Threat -- Amy Zegart and Kevin Childs, NextGov/The Atlantic

Analysis: In democracies’ political chaos, new model emerges -- Niko Price, AP

Collective Rage: Gilets Jaunes in France and elsewhere -- Daniel Woker, The Interpreter

1 comment:

Mike Feldhake said...

It's always the US vs others. This is really Russia and China vs everyone else. Sort of like Germany and Japan. These analyses are worthless and are only there for the writer to blow smoke.