From The American Interest:

In May 2017, I walked through the main gate of the Id Kah Mosque complex on the main square of Kashgar, the Uighur-majority city on China’s far western frontier. The mosque has been the center of Kashgar for hundreds of years, a reminder of the city’s ancient Central Asian heritage. The six video cameras hanging from a metal railing above demonstrated the Chinese Communist Party’s determination to forge a techno-authoritarian modernity.

From the Wall Street Journal:

“Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart,” Russian President Vladimir Putin famously said in 2010. But he quickly added, “Whoever wants it back has no brain.”

Mr. Putin isn’t usually known as a savvy economic steward. Yet...

From the German Marshall Fund:

Despite the Kremlin’s desire to reassert influence over its neighbors, Russia’s economic leverage in Eastern Europe is declining. After more than a decade of using trade and energy cutoffs to pressure its neighbors to...