Subject: Editors' Picks: How Kazakhstan is trying to silence critics of China's Xinjiang camps, and why Germany's CDU is contemplating an unlikely alliance
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Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:19:12 -0500 (CDT)

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EDITORS' PICKS

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03/11/2019

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

Today, we look at an unlikely potential alliance between Germany’s Christian Democratic Union and the left, how U.S. military entertainment has changed since World War I, and how the head of a watchdog organization looking for details on China’s Xinjiang camps has found himself at the heart of tensions between Astana and Beijing.

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MEETING IN THE MIDDLE: Ironically, democracies that once seemed safe have slipped, and today’s authoritarian regimes have grown more liberal—at least in terms of their facades, Erica Frantz writes.

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AN ALMATY PROBLEM: Kazakhstan is prioritizing its ties to China’s government over the rights of its own citizens, Reid Standish reports.

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3

KABUL IN A CHINA SHOP: The retreat of the United States from Afghanistan has opened the door to a possible political settlement with the Taliban, but its success will depend on how muscular regional powers and the country’s neighbors react, Barnett R. Rubin writes.

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GETTING ALONG IN GERMANY: The CDU and Communists were ideological and political enemies during the Cold War. Now they might partner up in eastern Germany, Emily Schultheis writes.

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SPARKS AND RECREATION: U.S. military recreation and entertainment programs are wrestling with traditions that offered women as antidotes to the military, rather than an integral part of it, which is why entertainment for the troops is changing, Kara Dixon Vuic writes.

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