WORLD ROUNDUPPKK Ending Conflict with Turkish State | Britain Has Had It with Mass Migration | How the U.S. is Pushing the EU Closer to China, and more

Published 13 May 2025

·  Kurdish Insurgent Group Says It Is Ending Conflict with Turkish State

·  Britain Has Had It with Mass Migration

·  How Trump Can Reset His Failed Ukraine Policy

·  In India, Controversial Law Threatens Muslim Property

·  Qatar’s Support for Anti-U.S. Terrorist Activity and Attacks

·  Political Discourse, Debate, and Decisionmaking in the Chinese Communist Party 

·  How the U.S. is Pushing the EU Closer to China

·  The Great Deep-Sea Mining Debate

Kurdish Insurgent Group Says It Is Ending Conflict with Turkish State  (Erika Solomon and Ben Hubbard, New York Times)
The Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or P.K.K., said that it would lay down its arms and disband, a decision that could reverberate in neighboring countries.

Britain Has Had It with Mass Migration  (Economist)
But immigrants might not have had it with Britain.

How Trump Can Reset His Failed Ukraine Policy  (Philip H. Gordon and Rebecca Lissner, Foreign Policy)
More pressure on Russia could end the war.

In India, Controversial Law Threatens Muslim Property  (Tarushi Aswani, Foreign Policy)
To many Indian Muslims, the Waqf Amendment Act looks like a calculated attempt to disempower their community.

Qatar’s Support for Anti-U.S. Terrorist Activity and Attacks  (Yigal Carmon and MEMRI Staff, MEMRI)
Qatar is the foremost sponsor of Islamist, particularly Wahhabi, and Muslim Brotherhood ideologies, terrorist organizations, and movements in recent decades. Qatar’s policies in support of such organizations and movements reflect its ideological and political identity and its religious commitment to globally spread these ideologies and to promote Islamist states and movements, as well as terrorist organizations and individuals.

Political Discourse, Debate, and Decisionmaking in the Chinese Communist Party  (Howard Wang, RAND)
The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) employs a system of coded speech to communicate policy directives to its implementing bureaucracy. This coded speech is governed by rules and exists in a specific cultural context, potentially confounding those unfamiliar with that context. CCP leaders deploy these codes through the party propaganda system to issue policy directives, and the codes take the form of slogans, linguistic formulations, or key phrases, collectively called tifa.

How the U.S. is Pushing the EU Closer to China  (Valbona Zeneli and Zoltán Fehér, National Interest)
Recent defense, trade, and technology moves from Washington give Brussels few choices for dealing with Beijing.

The Great Deep-Sea Mining Debate  (National Interest)
The debate pits those who stress the need to wean the United States off the Chinese near-monopoly on rare earth minerals against those who underscore the immense environmental costs of mining the seabed.