Two operas, one in Hong Kong, the other in Moscow, seemed to speak on current themes. I had the good luck this year of seeing two operas I hadn’t seen before (hit exit button if you don’t like opera). [...]
Are the US and China heading for a Pearl Harbor moment? Back to the Future? Pearl Harbor, 1941 Before visiting Shanghai last summer, I decided to prepare myself through some old novels about pre-Communist [...]
All calm in Shanghai, so why all the controls?
Kyoto—It’s often you hear Americans say, Yes, Japan is disciplined and quiet, but we couldn’t live like that, all so regimented. Well, on my first visit, I say, give me a little of that regimentation, [...]
Hong Kong—Looking out over Hong Kong harbor, it’s easy to grasp the logic of the town’s marketing slogan, “Asia’s World City.” Flocks of ships come and go from expanded ports. Businessmen from [...]
By closing ports to migrants, Italy’s new government has joined a host of European nations that have toughened their stance on immigrants and splintered any hope of a pan-continent policy on welcoming [...]
The G-7 annual meeting, which was once an amicable conclave of industrialized democracies, is taking place today with unusual acrimony. Trading partners? Donald Trump of course, is the center of hostile [...]
The other day, Donald Tusk, president of the European Union’s agenda-setting European Council, lashed out at US President Donald Trump in unusually tough and impolite language, given the customary diplomatic [...]
If Americans can look away, if possible, from the question of what Trump did and did not do back then to/with a porn star, it might still be worth paying attention to a looming crisis with China. Separation [...]
This week’s joint US, UK, French aerial attack on Syria may not change the course of the civil war in Syria—The government of Bashar al-Assad seems still on course to prevail over its internal enemies, [...]
I am a former correspondent who, for more than 30 years, did time in China, Southeast Asia, Central America, Mexico, the Middle East, Europe and Africa and covered wars that went from episodic to non-stop. My book, "Forsaken," about Christian persecution in the Middle East came out January, 2016. NextWarNotes is a news and analysis blog designed to fill gaps, give background and look at what’s next. The name of the site comes from a 1935 Esquire Magazine article by Ernest Hemingway called “Notes on the Next War,” in which he predicted the coming conflagration in Europe, told why it would happen and warned Americans to stay out.
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