Wednesday, August 26, 2015
  
Latest developments in China; Europe's migration crisis; update on Greece; perspectives on Russia; understanding the Iran deal; Middle East spotlight; and U.S. foreign policy analysis.
  
China's Uncertain Future
" Will the U.S. Get Tough on China?" Bonnie Glaser -- Lowy Interpreter, August 25, 2015 

NOTE: Bonnie Glaser, Senior Asia Adviser at CSIS, will speak on China at the World Affairs Councils of America's  2015 National Conference.

" What's Worse Than a Strong China? A Weak China" Joshua Keating -- Slate, August 24, 2015

" China's Fever, Everyone's Disease" Doug Sanders -- The Globe and Mail, August 24, 2015

" No Reason for Panic on China" Jeff Spross -- The Week, August 24, 2015

"China Is Its Own Worst Nightmare" Kerry Brown -- The Diplomat, August 24, 2015

"China's 'Black Monday' Is Just the Start" Elliot Wilson -- The Spectator, August 24, 2015

" China's Internal Migrant Time-bomb" Damien Ma --  Foreign Affairs, August 25, 2015

Europe's Migration Impasse
" Europe Always Waits Until It's Too Late" Judy Dempsey -- Carnegie Europe, August 25, 2015

" Europe Needs to Let the Migrants In" Philippe Legrain -- Foreign Policy, 
August 24, 2015 

" What Would Britain's Quota of Migrants Be?" Philip Johnson --  The Telegram, August 25, 2015 

" Merkel Right about the Migrant Crisis" Natalie Nougayrede --  The Guardian, 
August 24, 2015 

Greece Gamble 
" Tsipras Rolls the Dice "    Felicity Capon -- Newsweek , August 22, 2015

" Tsipras Calls Referendum on Himself "  David Francis -- Foreign Policy, August 20, 2015  

Anxiety in Moscow
"Is a Slow Putsch Against Putin Under Way? " Paul Roderick Gregory  --   Forbes , August 20, 2015

"Pyongyang & the Kremlin Have Plenty in Common "  Alexander Golts -- The Moscow Times ,  August 24, 2015  

Parsing the Iran Deal
"The Vienna Deal Sets Up Choice of Bad and Worse" John R. Bolton  --   NRO , August 24, 2015

" The Iran Deal: Science and Politics"  Ernest Moniz & John Mecklin -- BAS ,  August 14, 2015

" Iran Deal Creates an Uncertain Future" David Sanger & Michael Gordon  --   The New York Times ,  August 23, 2015

" Does Israel Stand Alone on Iran?" William Kristol -- The Weekly Standard ,  August 24, 2015

News From the Middle East
" Don't Blame Mideast Unrest on Saudi-Iran Rivalry "  Rami Khouri  --  The Cairo Review,  August 22, 2015

"Iran's Middle East Allies Crumble " Basheer Nafi -- Middle East Eye ,  August 21, 2015

" Insights from a Saudi General " Walter Russel Mead -- The American Interest,  August 22, 2015

Opinions on U.S. Foreign Policy
" Obama's Fatally Wrong Worldview "  David French  --  National Review,  August 21, 2015

"Why Neoconservatives Are Never Right "  Stephen Walt --  Foreign Policy,  August 21, 2015

"The Purpose of American Power "  Jacob Heilbrunn --  The National Interest,  August 19, 2015


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