Subject: Editors' Picks: How Congo's election is being derailed, and how the internet has fractured into warring states
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EDITORS' PICKS

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12/20/2018

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

Today we look at how governments are attempting to reshape the internet to their advantage in the era of digitalpolitik, why hope for a resolution to Spain’s Catalan secession crisis is fading, and why the election in Congo is not what its citizens asked for.

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MORE PIXELS, MORE PROBLEMS: The short, doomed life of Dragonfly, Google's attempt to adapt its search engine to comply with Beijing's censorship requirements, marked the beginning of a new and worrying phase of the internet’s development, Sean Martin McDonald and An Xiao Mina write.

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HURRY UP AND WAIT: Congo’s citizens have spent years demanding an election, but a delayed vote and lingering concerns over the credibility of the process are not what they asked for, Kristen Chick writes.

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BLACK FLAG: Global warming will produce national extinctions and international insurgencies—and change everything you think you know about foreign policy, Adam Tooze writes.

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VISA TROUBLE: If the majority of employment-based green cards go to people from India and China, it will ease the burden on one or two countries by transferring it onto the shoulders of immigrants from dozens of other countries. That’s neither a fair nor a logical way to fix a broken U.S. immigration system, Maziar Motamedi writes.

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MORE PAIN FOR SPAIN: New leadership in Madrid and Barcelona seemed to offer hope of a resolution to the Catalan secession crisis. But both sides are digging in rather than making compromises, Mark Nayler writes.

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