World Affairs - Quillette (Page 4)

Four Decades of Terror: Rio de Janeiro’s Never-Ending 'Drug War'

Rio’s futile, endless war will continue. Like going to the beach, or dancing samba, waging war is a way of life in Rio de Janeiro.

Damian Platt

10 Sep 2020 · 16 min read

The China Syndrome Part IV: Did China Fudge its Data?

Hatred of the Chinese regime has become so strong and pervasive in the West—especially in the US, where China is seen as its main geopolitical foe—that it creates incentives that allow unsubstantiated allegations to spread largely unchecked.

Philippe Lemoine

6 Sep 2020 · 26 min read

A Europe Divided and Unfree

Brian Stewart

3 Sep 2020 · 6 min read

The China Syndrome Part III: Wet Markets and BioLabs

In any case, the virus eventually reached Huanan Seafood Market, which served as a springboard from which the virus spread to the rest of Wuhan, and eventually across the entire world.

Philippe Lemoine

2 Sep 2020 · 32 min read

The Crimes of the Red Emperor

Aaron Sarin

31 Aug 2020 · 12 min read

The China Syndrome Part II: Transmission and Response

The human rights record of the Chinese Communist Party provides ample evidence of its capacity for repression and cruelty, and therefore ample opportunities for condemnation.

Philippe Lemoine

29 Aug 2020 · 37 min read

The China Syndrome Part I: Outbreak

Bureaucratic inertia and incompetence are plentiful in China, and not just among local officials, even though apparatchiks in Beijing frequently use them as scapegoats for their own corruption.

Philippe Lemoine

24 Aug 2020 · 30 min read

Lebanon's Malignant State

Some 30 years after the end of its dirty civil war, Lebanon has cultivated a well-developed preference for discretion.

Brian Stewart

12 Aug 2020 · 5 min read

The Russia Report

It is “widely recognised,” says the report, “that Russian intelligence and business are completely intertwined".

John Lloyd

12 Aug 2020 · 13 min read

Chinese Science Fiction's Disaster Dystopias

Rather than the emergence of a China-dominated world order, as some in the West and many in Beijing propose, science fiction writers illuminate realities that could end up reprising the failures of the former Soviet Union.

Joel Kotkin

11 Aug 2020 · 9 min read

Twilight of Democracy—A Review

And when Brexit is assumed to be a matter of nostalgia, there has to be evidence drawn from those who actually voted for it, and not just from those members of the elite who worked or wrote in its support.

John Lloyd

1 Aug 2020 · 14 min read

The Passing of the Second Imperial Age

The US’s hegemonic period, now shrinking, often looked like empire, especially the British version, which it mostly replaced.

John Lloyd

13 Jul 2020 · 13 min read

The Room Where It Happened—A Review

Money is a consistently recurring theme. Trump told Bolton at one point that other presidents had not talked about money, but that he liked to do so.

John Lloyd

30 Jun 2020 · 15 min read

From India’s Himalayan Border to Our Local Cell Networks, It’s Time to Push Back Against China

The Indian border is only one of the many fronts on which China has been taking advantage of the worldwide economic downturn and political paralysis caused by COVID-19 to move aggressively—an ironic result given the source of the disease.

Cleo Paskal

20 Jun 2020 · 8 min read

The Battle for Russian Journalism

Opinion, he says, is not the same as activism and purely objective journalism does not exist.

Alexandra Vladimirova and John Lloyd

7 Jun 2020 · 12 min read