WORLD ROUNDUPFamine in Gaza Shows the Failure of Israel’s Strategy | Tehran’s Wake‑Up Call for Beijing | The Kremlin's Most Devious Hacking Group, and more

Why Trump Broke with Bibi Over the Gaza Famine  (Jonathan Lemire and Isaac Stanley-Becker, The Atlantic)
The president wants the war to end and thinks Benjamin Netanyahu is standing in his way.

Famine in Gaza Shows the Failure of Israel’s Strategy  (Economist)
It has become an international pariah without vanquishing Hamas.

Cancelling President Lai’s Transit Is a Mistake That Will Embolden China  (David Sacks, CFR)
According to reports, the Trump administration has cancelled Taiwan’s President Lai Ching-te’s planned transit through New York, which he would have made before visiting three of Taiwan’s remaining diplomatic partners in Latin America and the Caribbean. Initial reporting indicates the Trump administration made this decision to remove any potential impediments to a bilateral trade deal and pave the way for a meeting between President Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. If true, such a move sends a dangerous signal to China and risks undermining deterrence in the Taiwan Strait.

Tehran’s Wake‑Up Call for Beijing  (Grant Rumley and Craig Singleton, Foreign Policy)
The sudden U.S. attack on Iran could complicate China’s Taiwan calculus.

Can Turkey Make Multicultural Authoritarianism Work?  (Sinem Adar, Foreign Policy)
Erdogan’s negotiations with the PKK seek peace and possibly pluralism without democracy. Will they succeed?

The Kremlin’s Most Devious Hacking Group Is Using Russian ISPs to Plant Spyware  (Andy Greenberg, Wired)
The FSB cyberespionage group known as Turla seems to have used its control of Russia’s network infrastructure to meddle with web traffic and trick diplomats into infecting their computers.

America Is Easing Chip-Export Controls at Exactly the Wrong Time (Economist)
The ban on sales to China was working, and should be kept in place.