SÁNG ÁNH – 30/12/2023 07:08 GMT+7

TTCT – Mỹ vừa phải thành lập cả một liên minh quốc tế sau những mối đe dọa từ một nhóm nổi dậy vũ trang với tuyến hàng hải huyết mạch qua biển Đỏ.

Lực lượng Houthi đang gây nhiều xáo trộn với đường hàng hải trên Biển Đỏ. Ảnh: CNN

Ngày 19-10, ba tên lửa từ Yemen bắn đi đâu không biết, bị chặn bởi hạm đội Mỹ đang tiến vào biển Đỏ. Sang 28-10, hai tên lửa cũng dạng vô chủ bay la đà rơi vào hai thị trấn của Ai Cập ven biển Đỏ giáp Israel khiến sáu người bị thương. 

Ngày 31-10 trong sa mạc Jordan có một trái rơi xuống phát nổ không gây thiệt hại. Sang 2-11, thị xã cực nam Israel Eilat bật còi báo động và cư dân nơi bờ biển hết sức yên lành này có dịp hiếm hoi tất tả xuống hầm trú ẩn.

Lực lượng phòng không sử dụng hệ thống Arrow chặn được hai tên lửa dạng máy bay không người lái (UAV) Samar 3 hay 4 gì đó, từ Yemen cách 2.000km bắn sang. 

Lực lượng Ansar Allah, còn gọi là Houthi, đang kiểm soát thủ đô cùng phần lớn lãnh thổ Yemen cho biết họ tuyên chiến trực tiếp với Israel, đánh thẳng luôn cả Mỹ chứ không qua tay sai nào hết, để tỏ lòng đoàn kết với Palestine.

Continue reading Liên minh Biển Đỏ và cuộc nổi loạn Houthi →

1. From January to October, 2023 had already seen the highest levels of violence from Israeli Security Forces (ISF) and Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since United Nations records began in 2005. This was against a backdrop of ever-growing settler population and increasing risks of annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank and of forcible transfer Palestinians out of their homes, especially
   in Area C.

Continue reading UN report: The human rights situation in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem 7 October – 20 November 2023 →

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1. From January to October, 2023 had already seen the highest levels of violence from Israeli Security Forces (ISF) and Israeli settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since United Nations records began in 2005. This was against a backdrop of ever-growing settler population and increasing risks of annexation of parts of the occupied West Bank and of forcible transfer Palestinians out of their homes, especially
   in Area C.

Continue reading UN report: The human rights situation in the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem 7 October – 20 November 2023 →

Kori Schake, a senior fellow and the director of foreign and defense policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss where the fighting in Ukraine is headed.

December 18, 2023 — 31:10 min CFR

Here are five highlights from their conversation:

1.) The front lines of the war haven’t changed much since the start of the counteroffensive. Kori pointed to the difficulty of clearing deeply entrenched Russian troops sitting behind heavily mined front lines. She attributed Russia’s ability to fortify its defenses in part to the Joe Biden administration, whose “six months of slow dispersal of weapons to Ukraine gave the Russians time to dig in.” She also noted the incredible difficulty of clearing minefields, while adding “the Ukrainians are doing it methodically.”

Continue reading The Future of the War in Ukraine, With Kori Schake →

Patrick Wintour, Diplomatic editor, The Guardian

The west’s equivocation on Gaza exposes a global order facing mutiny over its domination of the international discourse

Tue 26 Dec 2023 05.00 GMT

Richard Haass, the distinguished global analyst, once wrote: “Consistency in foreign policy is a luxury policymakers cannot always afford.”

But, equally, glaring national hypocrisy can come with a high price tag, in terms of lost credibility, damaged global prestige and diminished self-respect.

So Joe Biden’s decision to defend Israel’s methods in Gaza so soon after, in a different context, condemning Russia’s in Ukraine, is not just an occasion for hand wringing from liberals and lawyers.

Continue reading Why US double standards on Israel and Russia play into a dangerous game →

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Theo SUNA – hãng thông tấn chính thức của Sudan, Bộ Ngoại giao Sudan đã tuyên bố 15 nhân viên của đại sứ quán Các Tiểu vương quốc Arab Thống nhất (UAE) là những người không được chào đón và ra lệnh cho họ rời khỏi đất nước này.

Các nhà ngoại giao UAE có 48 giờ để rời khỏi Sudan, tuyên bố này được phát ra vài tuần sau khi tướng cấp cao của Sudan cáo buộc UAE hỗ trợ đối thủ RSF. Tháng trước, Yasser al-Atta, tướng cấp cao và cấp chỉ huy thứ hai của tổng tư lệnh quân đội Sudan Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, đã cáo buộc UAE gửi hàng tiếp tế cho lực lượng hỗ trợ nhanh bán quân sự (RSF). Atta tuyên bố UAE đã gửi hàng tiếp tế qua các sân bay ở Uganda, Chad và Cộng hòa Trung Phi.

UAE đáp lại Sudan bằng cách tuyên bố rằng họ đã “liên tục kêu gọi giảm leo thang, ngừng bắn và bắt đầu đối thoại ngoại giao”. Trong khi đó, vào tháng 8, UAE đã bác bỏ một báo cáo của Wall Street Journal cho rằng vũ khí được tìm thấy trong các chuyến hàng viện trợ của họ tới Sudan và nói rằng nước này “không đứng về bên nào trong cuộc xung đột hiện tại”.

Xe bọc thép bị tiêu diệt bên những thi thể được che phủ trên đường phố el-Geneina, Tây Darfur, tháng 6/2023. Ảnh: AFP Continue reading Đằng sau việc Sudan ra lệnh trục xuất 15 nhà ngoại giao UAE →

Developments at home and abroad are testing U.S.-South Korea relations.

Blog Post by Michelle Kurilla

December 15, 2023 11:05 am (EST)

The latest episode of The President’s Inbox is live! This week, Jim sat down with Scott Snyder, senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at the Council. They discussed Scott’s new book, The United States-South Korea Alliance: Why It May Fail and Why It Must Not.The President’s Inbox

The U.S.-South Korea Alliance, With Scott A. Snyder

Scott A. Snyder, a senior fellow for Korea studies and director of the program on U.S.-Korea policy at CFR, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss the importance of the U.S.-South Korea military alliance and how domestic and international forces could be undermining it.

Here are five highlights from the discussion:

1.) The U.S.-South Korea alliance is critical to the U.S. interest in preventing China from dominating the Indo-Pacific region. Scott argued that the United States is better equipped to “defend its interests” in East Asia with the “alliance architecture” that includes the U.S.-South Korea alliance as well as the U.S.-Japan alliance. The alliances help deter aggressive Chinese behavior that could roil the region.

Continue reading The U.S.-South Korea Alliance →

 

People, especially politicians, in the West are afraid of being called antisemite, and they may hang the antisemite label on the neck of their enemies if they get a chance.

What is so powerful about “antisemite” or “antisemitism”? Continue reading Antisemite? Really? →

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As 2023 comes to a close, here are the top ten most notable world events of the year.

Blog Post by James M. Lindsay

December 8, 2023 9:21 am (EST) CFR

You are not alone if 2023 has you feeling worn down. It has been a trying year on the world scene, as the forces of disarray grew stronger. Ongoing wars ground on, while new ones erupted. Geopolitical competition increased, to the point where a meeting between rival heads of state became front-page news even though their talks yielded little tangible progress. In all, good news has been in short supply. So here are my top ten world events in 2023. You may want to read what follows closely. Many of these stories will continue into 2024 and beyond.

And if you would like visuals to go along with the list, here is the companion video my colleagues in CFR Digital have created recounting all ten events.

Ten Significant World Events 2023

10. The global democratic recession continues. Optimists are predicting a fourth wave of global democratic expansion. That prediction was a bust in 2023.Freedom House started the year by announcing that 2022 marked the seventeenth straight year in which global freedom and democracy declined.As if to prove the point, Africa’s coup epidemic continued. In July, Niger’s military ousted the country’s democratically-elected president. Neighboring states threatened to intervene if the coup wasn’t reversed, but the military juntas running Mali and Burkina Faso threatened war in response. In August, Gabon’s military took power and made vague promises to eventually hold elections. A new progressive party won the most seats in Thailand’s May election. However, a backroom deal produced a pro-military government that left the election’s biggest winner on the outside looking in. India’s government continued to use the law and intimidation to silence critics, and many other democracies restricted freedom of expression. The trend of candidates claiming they would lose their election only if the vote were rigged continued. Far-right parties fared well across Europe, reviving memories of how European democracies collapsed a century ago. Guatemala’s attorney general tried to keep the country’s president-elect from taking office, while Peru’s attorney general used corruption investigations to pressure lawmakers to help her allies. Donald Trump called his opponents “vermin,” said that if he regained the White House he would not be a dictator “except for Day One,” and suggested he would use the presidency to target his political enemies. All in all, not a good year for democracy.

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FP asks experts two questions about the fighting between Israelis and Palestinians.

DECEMBER 7, 2023, 7:48 AM FP

By Zaha Hassan, Daniel C. Kurtzer, Omar Dajani, Diana Buttu, Peter R. Mansoor, Daniel Levy, Ehud Olmert, Eugene Kontorovich, and Elliott Abrams

The war between Israel and Hamas—now in its ninth week after a brief cease-fire—has made talk of peace processes and hopes for final-status agreements seem more remote than ever. But the brief pause in fighting and the successful hostage exchange brokered with the assistance of Qatar—along with Egypt and the United States—suggested that there is space for diplomacy even amid a brutal war.

Rather than seeking blueprints for a permanent peace deal, which seems far-fetched given the current Israeli and Palestinian political leadership, Foreign Policy asked a range of experts two narrower questions:

1. What will Gaza look like one year from now?
2. What single policy could any actor in this conflict pursue that would make it less likely that this war will end like so many others, with the same security threats remaining and key political grievances unresolved?

—FP Editors

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• ZAHA HASSAN
• DANIEL C. KURTZER
• ELLIOTT ABRAMS
• OMAR DAJANI
• EUGENE KONTOROVICH
• DIANA BUTTU
• PETER R. MANSOOR
• DANIEL LEVY

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu embraces U.S. President Joe Biden on a sunny day as photographers snap photos in the background. Biden’s mouth is open and he squints against the sun as he speaks to Netanyahu, holding a pair of sunglasses in the hand he’s using to hug the other man.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) greets U.S. President Joe Biden on his arrival in Tel Aviv on Oct. 18.BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP VIA GETTY IMAGES

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Continue reading How will this war end? How can the next one be prevented? →

As Gaza reels from Israel’s devastating bombardments, here’s a brief history of the conflict using maps and charts.

By Mohammed Haddad and Alia Chughtai

Published On 27 Nov 202327 Nov 2023 Al Jareeza

Israel’s deadly bombardment of Gaza has killed nearly 15,000 people, including 10,000 women and children, in over 50 days, making it the deadliest war for the besieged Palestinian enclave till date.

Israel has rebuffed calls for a ceasefire as a four-day humanitarian truce comes to an end on November 28. It is unclear whether the truce will be extended.

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The beginning of the end? The hypothetical future of Palestinian politics

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Gaza truce appears set to extend as Israel receives new list of captives

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Two more days of respite for Gaza residents as Israel, Hamas extend truce

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US rights advocates launch hunger strike for Israel-Hamas ceasefire

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By Nectar Gan, CNN

Updated 7:45 AM EST, Thu November 30, 2023

A delicious dish that’s more controversial in some months than others.Ray Kachatorian/Stone RF/Getty Images

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Light, tasty and simple to make, egg fried rice has long been a beloved dish in China and one of most recognizable icons of Chinese cuisine around the world.

But in recent years, the popular stir-fry has become a highly sensitive subject for China’s online nationalists, especially around the months of October and November.

Continue reading Chinese celebrity chef vows to never cook egg fried rice again after nationalist backlash →