Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 10, 2020

Xi Jinping speaks after reviewing the Navy fleet in the South China Sea in April 2018: leadership demands more than brute might. © Xinhua

Brahma Chellaney, Nikkei Asian Review: China risks imperial overstretch with post-pandemic aggression

From Hong Kong to Himalayas, Xi Jinping seizes on disarray to expand global influence

Brahma Chellaney is a geostrategist and author of nine books, including "Asian Juggernaut: The Rise of China, India and Japan."

President Xi Jinping, seeking to press China's advantage while its neighbors are distracted by the coronavirus pandemic, has lately opened multiple fronts in his campaign to make China the world's foremost power -- from Hong Kong and Taiwan to the South and East China Seas to the Himalayan frontier.

The globally paralyzing pandemic has reinforced Xi's efforts to realize his "Chinese dream" by the 2049 centenary of communist rule. Xi said in a speech at Xi'an Jiaotong University in April that "great steps in history have always emerged from the crucible of major disasters."

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- June 10, 2020

Xi Jinping Is China’s Teddy Roosevelt -- James Holmes, US Naval Institute

China Unquarantined -- Dan Blumenthal & Nicholas Eberstadt, National Review

Why the Trump Administration Has Helped China -- Kishore Mahbubani, National Interest

The Republican War Over Trump’s Germany Troop Pullout -- Jacob Heilbrunn, National Interest

Israeli Plans to Annex the West Bank -- Geoffrey Aronson, Center for Global Policy

Could Iran Test a Nuclear Bomb Within a Year? -- Matthew Petti, National Interest

Should we remove statues of Congo's coloniser king, Belgian councillor asks -- Reuters

COVID-19 Be Damned: How Poland Is Beating Another Crisis -- Philipp Fritz, World Crunch

Dying to connect or dying unconnected: Two realities of the COVID-19 pandemic -- Janice Phillips, The Hill

Ready for Another Bank Collapse? -- Frank Partnoy, The Atlantic

COVID-19 Will Hit Developing Economies Hard -- Martin Wolf, Financial Times

Excerpts on Unrest in the United States -- Stratfor

How effective are protests and riots for changing America? -- Daniel J. Myers, The Hill

US dictionary to revise definition of racism -- DW