Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials — August 21, 2019

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Photo: An oil tanker burns in the Strait of Hormuz after allegedly being attacked by Iranian boats. (AP/ISNA)

Jackson Gothe-Snape and Emma Machan, ABC News Online: Understanding the Strait of Hormuz: narrower than Bass Strait, carrying one fifth the world’s oil

Australia is sending a warship, surveillance aircraft and Defence Force personnel to a stretch of Middle Eastern water called the Strait of Hormuz.

Here’s why.

Read more ….

Commentaries, Analysis, And Editorials — August 21, 2019

How Britain Lost the War It Never Wanted with Iran — Matthew Petti, National Interest

Kashmir: DW reporter’s first-hand account of the ‘siege’ — Rifat Fareed, DW

Trouble in Sri Lanka — Taylor Dibbert, Washington Times

The Sources of Chinese Conduct — Odd Arne Westad, Foreign Affairs

China buffeted by shifting Nigerian political winds — Lin Nguyen, Asia Times

Young Libyans chose danger at sea over peril at home — AFP

Abdalla Hamdok: Who is Sudan’s new prime minister? — Al Jazeera

Don’t Restore a G-8 With Russia — Tom Rogan, Washington Examiner

Merkel’s government delivers on promises, but voters aren’t convinced — Rebecca Staudenmaier, DW

German-U.S. Ties Are Breaking Down — Matthias Gebauer et al, Der Spiegel

G7 or G5? Trump and Johnson add unpredictability to French summit — John Irish, Marine Pennetier, Reuters

Huawei will ‘dominate the world’ — Gordon Watts, Asia Times

Huawei is beginning 6G research — a mobile network that may move far beyond the smartphone — Alan Weedon, ABC News Online