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Lyle J. Goldstein, National Interest: Here Is What Chinese Scholars Think about the North Korea Crisis
China is best positioned to manage a peaceful resolution of the North Korea nuclear crisis.
The world has held its breath over the last two months. For nuclear strategists and specialists in the field of international security, this boiling predicament on the Korean Peninsula has been less an occasion for fatalist joking than a grim spectacle of just how dangerous and destabilizing the process of nuclear proliferation can be in any situation, let alone one in which both “players” in an asymmetric rivalry are inclined toward bombast, ambiguity, and risk-taking.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- September 5, 2017
Welcome to the H-Bomb Club, North Korea -- Ankit Panda & Vipin Narang, The Diplomat
This nuclear test means Trump must now start talks with North Korea -- John Delury, Reuters
China has tools to pressure Kim but worries of consequences -- Joe McDonald, AP
Analysis: US options on NKorea narrow further after test -- Josh Lederman, AP
Mosul Holds Clues About a Post-ISIS Future -- Kori Schake, The Atlantic
With ISIS on the run, is it time to focus on Iran? -- Heshmat Alavi, Al Arabiya
Are Yemeni rebels imploding? -- Bruce Riedel, Al-Monitor
How Islamic State is undermining peace prospects in Libya -- Mustafa Fetouri, Al-Monitor
Israel slow to recalibrate on Syria -- Ben Caspit, Al-Monitor
Once Putin’s War Games Begin in Belarus, Will He Ever Leave? -- Anna Nemtsova, Daily Beast
The Azerbaijani Laundromat -- Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
Macron: Still the Answer for France? -- Jessica Kolbe, National Interest
Britain’s deluded hopes for a painless free-trade deal -- Paul Wallace, Reuters
Criticize Venezuela dictatorship but mum on Cuba? That’s political hypocrisy. -- Andrés Oppenheimer, Miami Herald
Once-threatened generals are now driving Trump's policy -- Jamie McIntyre, Washington Examiner
