Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 26, 2019

Daniel Sneider, Asia Times: Northeast Asia unraveling amid US retreat

We are left now watching events unfold in East Asia in the absence of American leadership and a cogent strategy

While Americans become increasingly preoccupied with their own domestic descent into dysfunction and political civil war, the rest of the world moves on without them.

The United States is not responsible for much of what we see happening in the world, but the consequences of American retreat from leadership are visible and disturbing. Nowhere is that more evident than in East Asia.

At one moment, we are witnessing multiple challenges to the international order that has maintained peace and stability in the region. Japan and South Korea, the anchors of the American security system, are now locked into a political and economic war without any end.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- July 26, 2019

While the world focuses on Iran, a tragedy is ‘unfolding before our eyes’ in Idlib -- Al-Monitor

Glavin: Slaughter wracks Syria's Idlib region, and no one seems to notice -- Terry Glavin, Ottawa Citizen

Idlib airstrikes by Russia and Assad test U.S. resolve in Syria -- Adham Sahloul, Axios

The Syrian Civil War Grinds On, Largely Forgotten -- Charles Glass, Stratfor

Yemen Poses a Big Test for Iran -- Ahmed Charai, National Interest

FACT: A War with Iran Would Be Terrible and Kill Countless Americans -- Ted Galen Carpenter, National Interest

U.S. Maximum Pressure on Iran Unsettles Syria's Kurds -- Matthew Petti, National Interest

Analysis: Will North Korea's economy survive the sanctions? -- Al Jazeera

Afghanistan peace talks: U.S. pushes toward “face-saving way out" -- Axios

Why a Taliban peace deal won't end bloodshed in Afghanistan -- Masood Saifullah, DW

Will China send in the troops to stamp out protests in Hong Kong? -- Nectar Gan & Kristin Huang, SCMP

China’s disregard for Vietnamese sovereignty leaves region worse off -- Ankit Panda, SCMP

20 years of Kargil war: India, Pakistan remain tense over Kashmir -- Rifat Fareed, Al Jazeera

Is climate change to blame for the heatwave in Europe? (Video) -- Inside Story/Al Jazeera

Think the heat wave in Europe and N. America is bad? Try living in the Middle East -- France 24

A$AP Rocky, Donald Trump and the diplomatic spat between the US and Sweden -- Michael Collett, ABC News Online

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