Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 27, 2019

François Picard, France 24: France's quagmire? Sahel region trageted by increasing jihadist attacks

The youngest was 22, the oldest 43. France mourning its loss in Mali. The 13 killed in the collision of two military helicopters on patrol making for the biggest single day casualty toll since 1983 and serving as a reminder that nearly seven years after the French military intervened to rout the jihadists who had taken over the north.

Mali's insurgency has relocated south to the inhospitable area bordering Niger and Burkina Faso. Why the resurgence? What is the plan?

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- November 27, 2019

Why France is focused on fighting jihadists in Mali -- BBC

'New Secret No. 5656': The document that lifts the lid on life inside a Chinese re-education camp -- Stephen Hutcheon, ABC News Online

Zhu Hailun, the man behind China’s Uighur prison camps -- Sébastian Seibt, France 24

A Failure of Leadership in the Muslim World -- James Durso, RCW

Hong Kong’s shock election result shows how Beijing falls victim to its own propaganda -- Isabella Steger, Quartz

Special Report: How Hong Kong's greatest tycoon went from friend of China to punching bag -- Tom Lasseter, Farah Master, Clare Jim, and Keith Zhai, Reuters

Asia is facing a food crisis and needs another $800 billion in the next 10 years to solve it -- Stella Soon, CNBC

ISIS schemes with jihadist groups in Pakistan -- Kunwar Khuldune Shahid, Asia Times

After internet blackout, Iranians take stock -- Al Jazeera

Iran protests: Videos reveal crackdown regime tried to hide from world -- Jiyar Gol, BBC

The Oligarchs Who Lost Ukraine and Won Washington -- Michael Carpenter, Foreign Affairs

'Extremely alarmed': Union slams Bloomberg News plan to stop covering 2020 Democrats -- Madison Dibble, Washington Examiner

The US-China trade war and Brexit don’t help, but behind sluggish global growth lies political gridlock -- David Dapice, SCMP

The Fourth Industrial Revolution is redefining the economy as we know it -- Katica Roy, World Economic Forum