WORLD ROUNDUP – 25-31 MAY 2025Israel Fuels Three Emergencies as Its Furious Allies Bail Out | The Realist Case for Global Rules | Africans Are Building Putin’s Suicide Drones | European Trend Report on Terrorism 2025, and more
CHINA WATCH
· American Far-Right Views Are Welcome in China
· China’s Yuan Ambitions Are an Uphill Struggle
MIDDLE EAST
· Why Israel Is Even More Fearful of Trump Nuke Deal Than Obama’s
· The Two Extremists Driving Israel’s Policy
· Netanyahu Intervened and Blocked Shin Bet Investigations Against Jewish Terrorism
· Israel Fuels Three Emergencies as Its Furious Allies Bail Out
· Why a Maximalist Approach to Iran Talks Won’t Work
THE LONG VIEW
· Why Have So few Atrocities Ever Been Recognized as Genocide?
· The Realist Case for Global Rules
· European Trend Report on Terrorism 2025
· Can Friedrich Merz Save Conservatism
· How Poland Can Keep Its Place at the Heart of Europe
MORE PICKS
· Trump’s Tariffs and the Stakes of Korea’s Snap Election
· Trump Administration Targets Brazilian Judge for ‘Censorship’
· Africans Are Building Putin’s Suicide Drones
· How Trump Is Helping Washington’s Foes in Africa
· Trump Showed Images of ‘Genocide’ in South Africa. One Was from the War in Congo.
· Trump Softens on Putin as Russia’s Military Edge Weakens, Officials Say
· Russian Mercenary and Paramilitary Groups in Africa
· We Can No Longer Dismiss Trump’s Blatant Racism
· Trump’s False Fantasy About Afrikaner Land
· Mexico Battles the MAGA Movement Over Organized Crime
· Germany Deploys Permanent Troops to Another Country for the First Time Since World War II
CHINA WATCH
American Far-Right Views Are Welcome in China (Maya Wang and Mason Wong, Foreign Policy)
Racists in the United States and Chinese nationalists share common ground.
China’s Yuan Ambitions Are an Uphill Struggle (Henry Tugendhat, Foreign Policy)
New Latin American lending raises more questions than answers.
MIDDLE EAST
Why Israel Is Even More Fearful of Trump Nuke Deal Than Obama’s (Yonah Jeremy Bob, Jerusalem Post)
If there is a nuclear deal, the latest leaks are starting to fill in the blanks. US President Donald Trump will get to say – correctly – that he got more from Iran in his nuclear deal than former US presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden. This would be true in at least two potential areas: having American nuclear inspectors in Iranian nuclear facilities and not just IAEA inspectors who are not American, as well as a complete pause in enriching uranium, even at low levels, for a symbolic time period of possibly around a year. And yet The Jerusalem Post understands that top Israeli officials are far more fearful of the potential Trump nuclear deal with Iran than they were even of the 2015 JCPOA deal, which most of them did view as highly flawed.
The Two Extremists Driving Israel’s Policy (Gershom Gorenberg, The Atlantic)
One is an ideologue, the other a rabble-rouser. Both are pushing their country to places once unthinkable.
Netanyahu Intervened and Blocked Shin Bet Investigations Against Jewish Terrorism (Gidi Weitz and Amos Harel, Haaretz)
The director of Israel’s Shin Bet security agency, Ronen Bar, protested to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over his refusal to authorize wiretaps in several cases involving suspects in nationalistically motivated crimes and Jewish terrorism. In a letter sent to Netanyahu several weeks ago, Bar warned of the decision’s potential harm to national security. A political source familiar with the details told Haaretz that Netanyahu’s move was “unprecedented.” Security sources described Netanyahu’s conduct in the matter as exceptional and dangerous.
Israel Fuels Three Emergencies as Its Furious Allies Bail Out (Economist)
Binyamin Netanyahu has a lethal addiction to crises.
Why a Maximalist Approach to Iran Talks Won’t Work (Sina Azodi, Foreign Policy)
The Islamic Republic, like the monarchy that preceded it, views access to the full nuclear fuel cycle as a right.
THE LONG VIEW
Why Have So few Atrocities Ever Been Recognized as Genocide? (James Sweeney, The Conversation)
An intense argument is raging over whether
