Treating children a collateral damage and other editorial views from around the world

Treating children as collateral damage - Washington Post

INFANTS, TODDLERS, tweens, teens — Trump administration officials are less interested in the age of an unauthorized child migrant than they are in removing the child from his or her parents as a means of deterring illegal border-crossers. ... The United States has a legitimate interest in deterring illegal border-crossing. It is within its rights to detain and deport individuals and families who fail to make a persuasive case for asylum. But to splinter families and traumatize children in the name of frightening away migrants, many of whom may have a legitimate asylum claim, is not just heartless. It is beyond the pale for a civilized country.

Please Stay, Justice Kennedy. America Needs You. - New York Times

Dear Justice Kennedy,
As you have no doubt heard, rumors of your impending retirement are, for the second year in a row, echoing around Washington and across America. While you and your colleagues on the Supreme Court were listening to the final oral arguments of the term in recent days, those rumors were only growing more insistent.
How can we put this the right way? Please don’t go.

From here to normality  - Kathimeri, Greece

It is indeed time for Greece to become a normal country again, but an official exit from a system of austerity and supervision alone is not enough to make this happen. ... For Greece to return to normalcy, it first needs a normal government that believes in reforms which will unleash the country’s productive capabilities and put an end to the vulgar mentality of old-school politics that currently prevails. And the faster we get this normal government, the better.

Don’t let these smug stooges derail Brexit - Daily Mail, London 

TREACHERY is a very grave charge. But it is hard to think of any other that adequately describes today’s plot by Remainer peers to deprive their country of its strongest card in the Brexit talks.
In any negotiation, whether over business or diplomacy, the ultimate bargaining tool is the threat to walk away from the table if the terms are unfavourable. As Theresa May has put it succinctly: ‘No deal is better than a bad deal.’
Yet in the most flagrant bid to derail Brexit so far, today’s proposed Lords amendments would rob Britain’s team of this trump card – dreaded by our partners, who stand to lose more than the UK if talks collapse, since they sell much more to us than we do to them.
Instead, they would force our negotiators to keep going backwards and forwards to Brussels in quest of an agreement acceptable to the Europhile majority in Parliament, while opening the way for a second referendum before we can leave.

China needs to act as a responsible creditor - Financial Times, London 

With power comes responsibility. China is already a great power, not least as a lender for development, notably in support of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative. Chinese institutions and multilateral bosies under its influence have become significant creditors of emerging and developing countries. This role can only grow. How China handles it, not least how well it co-ordinates the management of lending and debt relief with the traditional creditors is increasingly important.

Hope comes to a peninsula - Globe and Mail, Canada 

The hostilities of the Korean War ended in 1953, but eastern Asia’s longest ongoing conflict has never been officially resolved – until, it seems, now. When North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un stepped on South Korean soil on Friday, it was the first time a leader from the North had done so. The thaw between Mr. Kim and South Korean President Moon Jae In is momentous. But it prompts a question: Can it really be this easy?
Maybe. We have been at or near this point a few times, most recently in 2000 when Mr. Kim’s father, Kim Jong Il, hosted South Korean president Kim Dae Jung in Pyongyang. ... But the details matter, and history tells us North Korea is devilishly hard to pin down. ... And then there is U.S. President Donald Trump, the only politician who can rival the Kim dynasty for bombast and unpredictability. Historians may remember his bold offer to hold a summit with Mr. Kim as a pivotal moment, but there is no way of knowing whether or not he can see this through to the end.


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