World

Vera Lynn, R.I.P.

By Andrew Stuttaford 12:28 PM

Best known for singing We’ll Meet Again, for Brits, she was the last great living symbol of “the war.”

Ex-Google CEO Schmidt Says Huawei Acts as ‘Signal Intelligence’ for CCP

By Tobias Hoonhout 12:14 PM

Schmidt said that “there's no question” Chinese telecom giant Huawei has business practices “not acceptable in national security.”

How Beijing Has Clamped Down on Hong Kong — And How the Free World Can Respond

By Dmitri Solzhenitsyn 10:42 AM

It is high time for the allies of freedom to commit to preserving self-governance wherever people are kept from exercising it.

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The U.N. Human Rights Council Is Still a Platform for Dictators

By Jimmy Quinn 6:30 AM

Some of the world’s most egregious violators of human rights sit on the council and pass judgment on the United States’ actions.

What Tim Kaine Gets Wrong about Slavery — and Why It Matters

By Cameron Hilditch 3:57 PM

America didn’t invent it, and arguing otherwise makes it harder for us to end its continued practice abroad.

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U.N. Rejects Canada’s Security Council Bid

9:16 AM

Denied.

Cracked

By Jay Nordlinger June 18, 2020

Notes on Drew Brees, the NFL quarterback, and Maria Ressa, the Filipina journalist.

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Trading with the Enemy

By Ramesh Ponnuru & Michael R. Strain June 18, 2020

Why tariffs on China aren’t working.

What’s Going On in the Indo-Pacific?

By Michael Auslin June 17, 2020

A new book explains some of the most important trends in the world’s most important region.

A Necessary Stalemate?

By Andrew Stuttaford June 17, 2020

David Marsh is on top form as he looks at the current jurisdictional, political, and financial collision between German law and the European Central Bank.