The resumption of fighting between Armenia and Azerbaijan threatens a broader regional conflict that threatens Western interests. While America has paid growing attention to Central Asia, it has forgotten to do the same in the South Caucasus, the Western gateway to Central Asia.
This unorthodox university event reflects the moral confusion on issues of global concern that afflicts all-too-many institutions of higher learning these days. For while the university justified the event on free speech grounds, it applied the notion of free speech with striking selectivity.
Cheating, plagiarism to be punished under social credit system;
China's corn crisis continues;
China's fishing flotilla nears Peru's waters;
Kenya faces fiscal criss due to SGR loan;
Kenyan MPs urge China to renegotiate DEB
Pushing a vaccine in Egypt;
Eastern expansion falling flat;
Moscow's health diplomacy;
Sanctions threat makes Nord Stream 2 a risky proposition;
Russian diplomats accused of espionage in Bulgaria
China's formidable fleet;
Climate and global labor;
North Korea's nuclear vulnerability...;
...and ours