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[Andreas Kluth] The future of Europe could be decided in Poland

ViewpointsJun 30, 2020

The European Union has many problems, but the most fundamental may be the rift between northern and southern member states and the even deeper fault line running between west and east. That latter fi...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Putin puts his post-COVID comeback to a vote

ViewpointsJun 26, 2020

Russia’s president has not had a good pandemic. But Vladimir Putin is staging a comeback, with a touch of foreign-policy grandstanding, a dash of military theater and a plebiscite on constitutional r...
[Noah Smith] Fear of infection hurt economy more than lockdowns

ViewpointsJun 25, 2020

Until recently, it seemed like the contentious debate over lockdowns was over. By the end of May, many states were defying the warnings of public-health experts, reopening restaurants, retail and pub...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Europe’s frugal four are right about two things

ViewpointsJun 24, 2020

The European Commission’s plan for a 750 billion-euro ($842 billion) fund to deal with the economic consequences of the pandemic is a quantum leap in Europe’s crisis response. Yet, for all the good i...
[Adam Minter] On COVID and protests, some good news

ViewpointsJun 23, 2020

On Tuesday morning, cars and pedestrians lined up for free COVID-19 tests in south Minneapolis, six blocks from where George Floyd was killed last month. As protests flared after his death, Minnesota...
[David Fickling] The most troubling China-India conflict is economic

ViewpointsJun 22, 2020

What’s worse than two populous, nuclear-armed countries killing each other’s soldiers? Two populous, nuclear-armed countries letting their longer-term relationship wither. Fighting along the Chinese...
[Andreas Kluth] Nuclear arms race worse than last one

ViewpointsJun 22, 2020

As long as the pandemic rages, the world’s leaders are understandably preoccupied with the threat of disease. But there are other dangers to humanity that demand attention. One of the most frightenin...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Case study for second-wave lockdowns

ViewpointsJun 17, 2020

Mexico, India and Pakistan are among the countries that have hit record numbers of new coronavirus cases in recent days, as drastic regulations that kept streets empty and people apart are lifted. It...
[Therese Raphael] What a slave trader’s statue says about Britain

ViewpointsJun 15, 2020

If Britons wanted a reason to protest against institutional racism, or police brutality, they didn’t have to look 6,400 kilometers away. There have been plenty of local examples over the years. “I ca...
[Timothy L. O’Brien] Why Trump has trouble addressing Black Lives Matter

ViewpointsJun 15, 2020

April Ryan, a veteran White House correspondent with American Urban Radio Networks and a political analyst for CNN, reported Tuesday afternoon that President Donald Trump is planning a major address ...
[Andreas Kluth] US must not cut troops in Germany

ViewpointsJun 12, 2020

It’s always interesting to see who’s celebrating. In German politics, that’s currently the Left Party, a descendant of East Germany’s former dictatorship that likes to brew anti-Americanism and Russo...
[Nisha Gopalan] The office not dead, just recovering

ViewpointsJun 11, 2020

I returned to the office this week, joining thousands of bankers from Citigroup to Morgan Stanley that are trickling back to their desks in Hong Kong. After almost five months working from home, it’s...
[Andy Mukherjee] Economic nationalism a wrong turn for COVID-hit India

ViewpointsJun 11, 2020

Prime Minister Narendra Modi wants all 1.3 billion Indians to be “vocal for local” -- meaning, to not just use domestically made products but also to promote them. As an overseas citizen living in Ho...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] China tackles dirty work of finance

ViewpointsJun 9, 2020

Beijing is scrubbing up. Late last week, the central bank excluded so-called clean coal from a draft list of projects eligible for green bonds. It’s a significant move that puts the world’s No. 2 iss...
[Therese Raphael] How COVID-19 has made Brexit even harder

ViewpointsJun 8, 2020

It came as no surprise that a fourth round of trade negotiations between the UK and the EU has produced no big breakthrough. Once again, there is talk about Britain separating from the EU in December...