Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 25, 2020

#ChristmasCoreper: EU Chief negotiator @MichelBarnier has started briefing EU Ambassadors on the #BrexitDeal. EU member states will now start reviewing the 1.246 pages of the 🇪🇺🇬🇧-agreement and continue with this daunting exercise during the next few days. pic.twitter.com/9PAKxwj3dc
— Sebastian Fischer (@SFischer_EU) December 25, 2020

DW News: EU-UK post-Brexit trade deal: What happens next?

After months of fraught negotiations, Britain and the EU have pulled off a historic trade deal.

But it still faces several hurdles in the UK and EU parliaments. Britain and the European Union agreed to a "historic" free trade agreement on Thursday, a week before the transition period following the UK's exit from the bloc was set to end.

Now that an agreement has been reached, it must now be put into law. Parliaments in both the UK and Europe must sign off on the deal, and due to the short time frame, the deal will not be fully ratified until next year. In other words, it may be applied provisionally from January 1.

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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- December 25, 2020

What now for British economy with UK-EU trade deal reached? -- Pan Pylas, AP

Brexit: Selling it as a big win on both sides of the Channel -- Katya Adler, BBC

Explainer: How the new Covid-19 vaccines work -- France 24

What do we know about the coronavirus? -- Fabian Schmidt, DW

Which countries have rolled out COVID vaccination? -- Al Jazeera

How the COVID-19 pandemic disrupted Christmas celebrations around the world -- ABC News (Australia)

US, China in another near-miss clash in South China Sea -- Richard Javad Heydarian, Asia Times

Will China Turn Off Asia’s Tap? -- Brahma Chellaney, Project Synbdicate

The World China Wants: How Power Will—and Won’t—Reshape Chinese Ambitions -- Rana Mitter, Foreign Affairs

Erdogan's political challengers are getting tougher -- Bobby Ghosh, Japan Times/Bloomberg