January 29, 2020
Coronavirus Causes Alarm; Trade Talk; European Roundup; Holocaust: 75 Years After Auschwitz; Ukraine Update; Planning for Peace in the Middle East?; Iran News; Presidential Foreign Policy; Disaster Strikes; and the Gender Equality in 2020
" The spirits of evil are emerging in a new guise, presenting their anti-Semitic, racist, authoritarian thinking as an answer for the future, a new solution to the problems of our age. And I wish I could say that we Germans have learnt from history once and for all. But I cannot say that when hatred is spreading."
-- German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at the Jan. 23 World Holocaust Forum in Jerusalem.
Coronavirus Causes Alarm
“ New Coronavirus Cases in China Surpass SARS Epidemic as Infections Grow Abroad” Simon Denyer and David Crawshaw -- The Washington Post, January 29, 2020

“ Coronavirus Outbreak: Concern Is Warranted, Panic Is Not” David Heymann and Lara Hollmann -- Chatham House, January 23, 2020

“ China’s Biological ‘Chernobyl’: Different Country, Same Lies” Bradley Thayer and Lianchao Han -- The Hill, January 28, 2020

“ Chinese New Year 2020: The Year of the Coronavirus” Alex Berezow and Phillip Orchard -- American Council on Science and Health, January 27, 2020
Trade Talk
“ Reform the WTO, Don’t End It” Willis Krumholz -- RealClear World, January 24, 2020

“ What CPEC Means for China’s Middle East Relations” Nader Habibi and Hans Yue Zhu -- The Diplomat, January 22, 2020
European Roundup
“ The Fragmentation of the European Union” George Friedman -- Geopolitical Futures, January 28, 2020

“ The Three Elephants of European Security” Johanna Möhring -- War on the Rocks, January 28, 2020

“ What Did the United Kingdom Just Decide on Huawei and 5G?” James Lewis -- Center for Strategic and International Studies, January 28, 2020

“ An Italian Flash Mob Just Pushed Back Europe’s Populist Tide” Rachel Donadio -- The Atlantic, January 27, 2020

“ A Chance for Leadership: German Foreign Policy After the Killing of Qassem Soleimani” René Wildangel -- European Council on Foreign Relations -- January 22, 2020
Holocaust: 75 Years After Auschwitz
Ukraine Update
“ How Ukraine Vanished in the Fog of Impeachment” Kurt Volker -- Foreign Policy, January 28, 2020

“ Zelensky’s Reform Drive Appears to Have Stalled” Oleg Sukhov -- Kyiv Post, January 25, 2020

“ Rumors of Ukraine’s Death on Capitol Hill Are Greatly Exaggerated” John Herbst -- Atlantic Council, January 24, 2020
Planning for Peace in the Middle East?
“ The Difference Between a Plan and a Deal…of the Century” Gideon Remez -- The Times of Israel, January 24, 2020

“ The Trump Plan: How Israel Should Respond” Moshe Koppel -- Jerusalem Post, January 28, 2020
 
“ Palestinian Reactions to the Trump Plan” Ghaith al-Omari -- The Washington Institute, January 27, 2020

“ The Real Goal of Trump’s Middle East Plan” Robert Malley and Aaron Miller -- Politico, January 28, 2020
Iran News
“ Trapped in Iran” Nicolas Pelham -- The Economist, February/March 2020

“ Iran Pares Election Roster in Favor of Hard-Liners” Saeid Jafari -- Al-Monitor, January 27, 2020

“ It’s a Disaster for Europe to Be So Subservient to the U.S.” Christiane Hoffman -- Der Spiegel, January 24, 2020
Presidential Foreign Policy
“ We Can End Our Endless Wars” Elizabeth Warren -- The Atlantic, January 27, 2020

“ All Presidents Are Doves Before They’re Elected” Michael Dougherty -- National Review, January 28, 2020
Disaster Strikes
“ 7.7 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Between Jamaica and Cuba, One of the Strongest on Record in the Caribbean” Matthew Cappucci and Jason Samenow -- The Washington Post, January 28, 2020

Gender Equality in 2020
“ The Challenge for Gender Equality in the New Decade” Natalie Gonnella-Platts -- RealClear World, January 27, 2020