Subject: Editors' Picks: Why truck driver shortages are national security threats, and Kosovo's disputed status
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Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:10:15 -0500 (CDT)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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09/19/2018

Welcome to Editors’ Picks, FP’s daily round-up.

Today, we look at how a shortage of truck drivers could wreak havoc, how the Chinese government is pursuing cultural genocide against the country’s Uighur population, and why changing Kosovo’s borders would be a disastrous mistake.

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PRIME CONCERNS: Everything from food to oil depends on underpaid and overworked truck drivers, and this could result in a crisis, Elisabeth Braw writes.

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IBAR RIVER BLUES: Land-swaps and population transfers won’t ensure peace between Serbia and Kosovo. They’re more likely to revive the bloodshed that plagued the Balkans during the 1990s, Michael Rossi writes.

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COLD CALCULATIONS: For the Chinese government, there are clear benefits to pursuing a policy of cultural, rather than physical, genocide. It’s more difficult and costly, but it’s also easier to conceal and obfuscate, Kate Cronin-Furman writes.

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UNCOMFORTABLE OPTIONS: Given Islamist militants’ adaptability and diffusion, options to combat them with force are limited. For some groups, negotiation may be the best option available, Martha Crenshaw writes.

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ATOMIC BAZOOKAS: For the U.S. military planners of the 1950s, nuclear weapons were not merely strategic assets to deter conflict but munitions for use in the event of hostilities.  No one should tell that to U.S. President Donald Trump, FP’s Jeffrey Lewis writes for the Fall print issue.

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