Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 3, 2021

 

Romain Brunet, France 24: Aung San Suu Kyi, the rise and fall of an icon turned pariah on the world stage 

The Myanmar army’s detention of de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Monday marks the fall of an icon whose story has been marked by the country's highs and lows, both at home and abroad. 

The Nobel Peace Prize laureate rose to lead Myanmar in 2015 after spending the better part of two decades under house arrest. But Suu Kyi's standing abroad was gravely damaged by her handling of the Rohingya crisis. 

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 Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 3, 2021 

Myanmar: Inside the coup that toppled Aung San Suu Kyi's government -- Nikkei Asian 

Myanmar coup: What is happening and why? -- Alice Cuddy, BBC News 

The Coronavirus Exposed the EU -- Douglas Bulloch, 1945 

Coronavirus: Lack of global vaccine strategy has 'immense costs' -- Lisa Hänel, DW 

Sinovac and Sinopharm - what do we know about the Chinese vaccines? -- BBC 

COVID-19: Risks and side effects of vaccination -- Alexander Freund, DW 

The race for ‘next generation’ COVID vaccines is heating up -- Al Jazeera 

Burma coup poses early test for Biden foreign policy -- Laura Kelly, The Hill 

Myanmar's coup against Aung San Suu Kyi puts China in a tricky spot. But there's also plenty to gain -- Bill Birtles, ABC News (Australia) 

For Biden, Tough Talk on Saudi Arabia Meets Reality -- Katie Bo Williams, Defense One 

How to Cut the US Presence in the Middle East -- Jerry Meyerle, Defense One 

Yemen: Remembering the Arab Spring -- Al Jazeera 

In Iran, power outages reveal the secret business of Chinese bitcoin farms -- Alijani Ershad, France 24 

How Socialism Wiped Out Venezuela's Oil Wealth -- A. Figueredo Thomson, Reason 

Colombia's ex-guerrillas: isolated, abandoned and living in fear -- Joe Parkin Daniels, The Guardian 

Inside the mind of Jeff Bezos -- Mark O’Connell, The Guardian