Wednesday NatSec Roundup

All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.

• It gets lonely in the East China Sea…
• Michael Scheur shows us that when you go ’round the bend, you should really go all ’round the bend.
• More on the sale of Rafale fighters to Greece…
• The PLAN puts two carriers at sea for the first time…
• What you need to know about political kidnappings, because of course this is 2020.
• The first two weeks of the Second Nagorno-Karabakh War.