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Stephen Silver, National Interest: Is a South China Sea War Coming Soon?
The Philippines and China have been feuding over a fleet of more than two hundred Chinese ships parked in the South China Sea.
The Philippines’ government has asked China to withdraw the ships, which it says are “encroaching upon its territorial waters in the South China Sea.”
The Philippines government says the ships, while they appear to be fishing boats, are actually operated by China's maritime militia Now, the dispute has continued, and the Philippines are once again demanding the ships leave the area.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- April 1, 2021
The New China Shock -- Mark Leonard, Project Syndicate
US Must Relearn How To Contain China: Gen. Murray EXCLUSIVE -- Sydney J. Freedberg Jr., Breaking Defense
Hong Kong Isn’t an Endgame for China. It’s a Starting Point. -- Weifeng Zhong, The Dispatch
Australians flagged in Shanghai security files which shed light on China's surveillance state and monitoring of Uyghurs -- Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop and Echo Hui (ABC News (Australia)
India and Pakistan Pursue a Thaw in Kashmir—Again -- Aryaman Bhatnagar, WPR
Pyongyang's Secret: There Is No Strategy -- Alex Wong, RealClearDefense
Why can’t the US end the war in Afghanistan? -- Al Jazeera
Will Biden end the war in Afghanistan? Don’t bet on it. -- Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune
The many pitfalls of the new US proposal for Afghan peace -- Mohsin Dawar, Al Jazeera
Crisis-hit Turkey risks disastrous foreign investor flight -- Mustafa Sonmez, Al-Monitor
How Israel Weighed Its Syria Policy, Before and After the Uprising -- Itamar Rabinovich, New Lines
How Bellingcat Unmasked Putin’s Assassins -- Joshua Yaffa, The New Yorker
Putin’s pipeline of aggression: How the Nord Stream 2 threatens the West -- Stanisław Żaryn, Defense News
Brazil: Are Jair Bolsonaro's days numbered? -- Astrid Prange and Anne-Sophie Brändlin, DW
Don’t Divide the World Between Democracies and Autocracies -- Daniel Depetris, Defense One
