Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 29, 2020

The Nagorno-Karabakh region has been running its own affairs with support from Armenia.(ABC News: Jarrod Fankhauser)

ABC News Online: Armenia and Azerbaijan have spent years fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh. What's behind the latest fatal clash?

A new and dangerous eruption of a decades-old conflict has broken out between Azerbaijan and its ethnic Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Scores are dead but the figures are disputed.

Hundreds have been injured and each side has blamed the other for instigating the deadly clashes as the shelling continued.

There have been many flare-ups between the former Soviet republics, which sit near strategic oil and gas pipelines, and are split along religious and ethnic lines.

"This is a life and death war," Nagorno-Karabakh leader, Arayik Harutyunyan, said.

So where exactly is the fighting, who is involved, why has violence again returned to the region and can it be stopped?

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 29, 2020

Armenia-Azerbaijan Conflict, Explained -- Zia Weise et al, Politico EU

Armenia and Azerbaijan's thawing of 'frozen conflict' shows past is never far away in war of identity -- Stan Grant, ABC News Online

Explained: Why Azerbaijan and Armenia are Clashing Over Nagorno-Karabakh -- Oleg Burunov, sputnik

Is Turkey a brother in arms or just extending its footprint into Nagorno-Karabakh? -- Leela Jacinto, France 24

Beijing ditches median line as tensions rise in the Taiwan Strait -- Mark Harrison, The Strategist

The Façade of Chinese Foreign Policy Coherence -- Strategy Bride

Assessing How Countries Can Compete with Chinese Hybrid Tactics Below the Threshold of Armed Conflict. -- William Freer, RCD

Zhenhua data leak exposes China's new 'hybrid warfare' -- Wesley Rahn, DW

Is Putin's war in Syria against America a miscalculation? -- Konstantin Eggert, DW

Is the Pentagon's Buildup in Northeast Syria a Message to Russia, Turkey, Damascus, or Someone Else? -- Ekaterina Blinova, Sputnik

One million coronavirus deaths: how did we get here? -- The Guardian

A new test from the WHO could be a game changer in the fight against Covid -- Charlotte Summers, The Guardian

Covid-19: Milestones of the global pandemic -- BBC

Is the internet falling apart? -- Roger Cochetti, The Hill

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