Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 9, 2019

Eli Lake, Bloomberg: Don’t Give In to Iranian Blackmail

Trump’s strategy of maximum pressure is working, and Europe shouldn’t stand in the way.

There are two ways to view Wednesday’s threats from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to abandon the 2015 nuclear bargain with his country.

The first is through the lens of Europe’s establishment and President Donald Trump’s opposition: Look what you’ve done! After a year of maximum pressure, Iran has finally been pushed to start breaking its commitments to limit its stocks of enriched uranium. As an EU foreign policy official tweeted, Trump’s Iran policy “has now triggered Rouhani’s move towards less for less.”

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- May 9, 2019

Iran Sends a Threat, and Europe Scrambles -- Keith Johnson & Robbie Gramer, Foreign Policy

Iran Is Inching Away From the Nuclear Deal. What Happens Now? -- Stratfor

A desperate move by Iranian President Rouhani -- Jamshid Barzegar, DW

'Dangerous game': US, Europe and the 'betrayal' of Iran -- Zaheena Rasheed, Al Jazeera

Are We Seeing a Prelude to War With Iran? -- Dina Esfandiary, Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

Turkey Descends Deeper Into the Depths of Autocracy -- Economist

Taliban attack on US-based aid group raises concern in Kabul -- Al Jazeera

China’s economy is showing signs of recovery but it’s not out of the woods yet -- Aidan Yao, SCMP

The U.S.-China Trade Talks Have Already Changed the World -- Matt Peterson, The Atlantic

China's Trade War Isn't Entirely About Trade -- Scott B. MacDonald, National Interest

Trade war pushing Asia closer together -- William Pesek, Asia Times

Who Owns South Africa? -- Ariel Levy, The New Yorker

What Is Russia Up to Across Africa? -- Frida Ghitis, WPR

Which way is Europe heading? -- Alan MacKenzie, DW

Why Apollo 11 still matters 50 years later -- Kent Wang, Asia Times