What Actually Mattered This Week: Chauvin Trial, Russia's Retreat, US-Turkey
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WHAT ACTUALLY MATTERED THIS WEEK
My thoughts on some of this week’s biggest news stories:
George Floyd: Jury finds Derek Chauvin guilty of murder
Chauvin found guilty after a fair and open trial.
Glad/relieved to see.
Rule of law matters.
Russia orders soldiers to begin return to bases after drills near Ukraine
Latest Kremlin Ukraine bluster hereby concluded.
US pushing ahead, kicking Turkey out of F-35 program over Russian S-400s
US removing Turkey from F-35 MOU.
Biden still hasn’t called Erdogan.
Add Saturday’s Armenia genocide recognition.
US-Turkey relations presently at the worst level since the 1974 Cyprus crisis.
Prefer long-form analysis? Here are my thoughts on what happens next with Iran nuclear negotiations after the Natanz attack.
TRUTHS, DAMNED TRUTHS, AND STATISTICS
Most press freedom 2021:
1 Norway
2 Finland
3 Sweden
4 Denmark
5 Costa Rica
6 Netherlands
7 Jamaica
8 New Zealand
9 Portugal
10 Switzerland
44 US
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GRAPHIC TRUTH
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Every recent decade has been warmer than the decade before it. And as the climate continues to warm, more nations are looking to extreme measures to slow down the trend. While some of these solutions may sound like science fiction—see: injecting sulfur particles into the atmosphere or shooting millions of tiny orbital mirrors into outer space—do such desperate times call for desperate measures? Elizabeth Kolbert, a Pulitzer Prize-winning climate journalist, joins Ian Bremmer on GZERO World to talk about some of the more extreme climate solutions currently on the table and how likely they are to be used in the coming years.
For a longer, more in-depth version of my interview with Kolbert, check out the GZERO World podcast.
WORLD IN 60 SECONDS
What did you make of Xi Jinping's message to the US at China's annual Boao Forum?
Is Russia's increased troop presence at the Ukrainian border really only a military exercise?
A Castro no longer leads Cuba. Who is the new leader and how will the country change?
Find out in this week’s World in 60 Seconds!
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BECAUSE THE INTERNET
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WHAT TO READ THIS WEEK
The Frontier Complex: Geopolitics and the Making of the India-China Border, 1846-1962 by Dr. Kyle Gardner
Last year’s border clashes between India and China led to 20 Indian soldiers and an unknown number of Chinese soldiers losing their lives. Since then, the two armies have remained in a tense standoff, as they continue to have disagreements over where the Line of Actual Control (the de facto border between the two countries) is. The book takes a look at the history of the undefined border in the Aksai Chin, and how attempts by the British empire transformed a crossroads of trade into a borderland. This helped lay the groundwork for the current dispute, a dispute that is likely to continue seeing clashes between the two militaries in the future.
DEEP THOUGHTS
“So many things are possible just as long as you don’t know they’re impossible.” —Norton Juster
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Ian Bremmer is president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media and foreign affairs columnist at TIME. He currently teaches at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and previously was a professor at New York University. You can follow him on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
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