Kim and Trump moments before their historic handshake [File: Kevin Lim/The Straits Times]
Tom Benner, Al Jazeera: Hosting a Trump-Kim summit: The Singapore experience
Singapore case offers key lessons for Hanoi in dealing with security issues, diplomatic protocol and huge media influx.
Singapore - At first it was on, then off, and then on again - in the end, Singapore had just two weeks to get everything ready for the much-anticipated, first encounter between a sitting US president and North Korean leader.
That such a strategically complex and delicate event came off as seemingly flawless - despite the short lead - offers lessons to Vietnam's Hanoi, the site of the second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un on February 27-28.
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Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials -- February 21, 2019
Trump's big challenge at the upcoming North Korea summit -- James Jay Carafano, Fox News
War with China? It’s already under way -- Michael Klare, Asia Times
Vietnam’s new view of an old war -- David Hutt, Asia Times
Russia eyes Oman as mediator for regional crises --
Kirill Semenov, Al-Monitor
Jaw-Jaw: China’s Great Power Disease -- Edward Luttwak and Brad Carson, War On The Rocks
What the West gets wrong about China’s big economic ideas -- Josephine Ma, Kinling Lo, Zhenhua Lu, and Su Xinqi, SCMP
Where Libya's revolution began, many now yearn for a strong hand -- Ulf Laessing, Reuters
Timothy Ash: Q&A on Ukraine’s March 31 presidential election -- Timothy Ash, Kyiv Post
Not Even Trump Can Drive Europe Into Russia's Arms -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
How the Balkans solved a Balkan problem -- Katerina Kolozova, Al Jazeera
On Venezuela, Bernie Sanders proves socialism's choking immorality -- Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
War Weary: Why Washington Needs to Bring Its Troops Home -- Doug Bandow, National Interest
Why Trump's Policies Will Solidify America's Geopolitical Power Status -- Ahmed Charai, National Interest
Smollett reactions epitomize polarized state of US politics -- David Crary, AP
Doomsday preppers head underground as bunker economy enters mainstream society -- Elle Hardy, ABC News Online
Jaw-Jaw: China’s Great Power Disease -- Edward Luttwak and Brad Carson, War On The Rocks
What the West gets wrong about China’s big economic ideas -- Josephine Ma, Kinling Lo, Zhenhua Lu, and Su Xinqi, SCMP
Where Libya's revolution began, many now yearn for a strong hand -- Ulf Laessing, Reuters
Timothy Ash: Q&A on Ukraine’s March 31 presidential election -- Timothy Ash, Kyiv Post
Not Even Trump Can Drive Europe Into Russia's Arms -- Leonid Bershidsky, Bloomberg
How the Balkans solved a Balkan problem -- Katerina Kolozova, Al Jazeera
On Venezuela, Bernie Sanders proves socialism's choking immorality -- Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner
War Weary: Why Washington Needs to Bring Its Troops Home -- Doug Bandow, National Interest
Why Trump's Policies Will Solidify America's Geopolitical Power Status -- Ahmed Charai, National Interest
Smollett reactions epitomize polarized state of US politics -- David Crary, AP
Doomsday preppers head underground as bunker economy enters mainstream society -- Elle Hardy, ABC News Online
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