Sidelining the Afghan government is a mistake

At last month's Geneva Ministerial Conference on Afghanistan, it was clear that the presidential elections were less than five months away. Afghan...

Canada must resist Chinese pressure over Huawei arrest

Smaller than a parking space: Is time up for Hong Kong’s nano-flats?

LIVING in nano flats – tiny apartments less than 200 sq ft – has fast become the norm in overcrowded Hong Kong. More than 500 units are expected...

How to build resilient cities without wrecking the environment

Cities can be designed in a way to imitate nature with solutions that are an integral part of the urban system. This can include dedicated areas of...

Is the GCC dead?

For the second time since the beginning of the Qatar blockade, 18 months ago, the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit failed to bring together...

Why countries are opposing the Global Compact for Migration

The GCM is a voluntary, non-binding global agreement setting out a common framework, shared principles and best practices on international...

Seeking protection for the Palestinians at the UN empowers the criminals

The debate on whether Palestinians should be granted international protection continues. Adalah’s November 2018 Report to the UN Independent...

China’s Boldest Experiment

BEIJING – Forty years ago this month, China’s leaders set the country on a path of reform that has produced the most dramatic economic...

Where does the Palestinian resistance go after that UN vote?

The world has become accustomed to seeing the US stand by injustice and occupation in all international forums and even on the battlefield. Hence,...

Out of Illusion, Weakness: Liberalism and Its Blind Spots

Can small-l liberalism survive in an ever-more illiberal world? This question is becoming progressively more acute, as the liberal ‘core’ is...

How Hong Kong has become a pawn in US-imposed trade war

Hong Kong officials have long warned that the city could be caught in the middle of a trade war between the United States and China. It now looks...

Governments slam the door on China telecom goods

The Strengthening Case Against Trump

WASHINGTON, DC – Though he rarely admits even the slightest discontent with the job he schemed for in unprecedented ways and somewhat...

Mao's nuclear libido

By Lee Seong-hyon When the Truman administration in 1945 dropped two nuclear bombs on Japan, Mao Zedong's reaction was uncommon. He belittled the...

Zimska pravljica. Za otroke

Prvi dobri mož Miklavž je odklenil decembrsko parado zimzelenih vej in celofana in kamorkoli se ozreš, samo še otroci z darili. Otroci, itak,...

Alexander Solzhenitsyn's genius more relevant than ever

On December 11, the Nobel laureate and last great giant of Russian literature would have turned 100. Critic Victor Yerofeyev says despite a grave...

Math doesn’t add up in deal for N.Y. Amazon HQ

NEW YORK — New York officials tout their deal to land a new Amazon headquarters as can’t-miss math. The city and state put up $2.8 billion in...

Cómo evitar que los bancos del futuro permitan crear cuentas con identidades falsas

Hace poco, una de las compañías pioneras en Europa, que entregó la primera tarjeta de crédito de forma remota, puso en alerta a todo el...

Google’s China problem is America’s China problem

WASHINGTON – When Google employees first learned of the company’s project known as Dragonfly, there was an internal uprising. It is easy to see...

A Monty Python madhouse in Westminster

In the eleventh hour, British PM Theresa May recoiled to delay a decision on her Brexit deal. The move may save her government for the time being...

Abe’s cavalier attitude is killing Diet’s watchdog role over power

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s administration, which is supported by a dominant ruling coalition, again exhibited disturbingly high-handed behavior...

I Have a Serious Problem With Leftists Who Are Okay With the Murder of Settlers

I have a serious problem when a leftist sees a pregnant woman and her unborn child as explicitly legitimate targets

On Human Rights Day 2018, the embodiment of Palestinian rights is as remote as ever

Human Rights Day is celebrated on 10 December to remember the day that the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in...

The 2018 Elections and the Uncertain Future of Brazilian Democracy

The victory of Jair Messias Bolsonaro in the Brazilian 2018 elections casts a shadow over the future of Brazilian democracy. His candidacy was...

Israel's National Lottery as Censor

For now, the Knesset rejected the flagship project of Culture and Sports Minister Miri Regev, when about two weeks ago it removed the so-called “...

Anti-Semites for Zion, Then and Now

Nesplniteľná úloha

Britská premiérka Theresa Mayová je zrelá na uterák do ringu bez ohľadu na to, na ktorý zo spomenutých scenárov sa spolieha. Jej turné po...

Let’s Hope China Loses the Tech War With America

A world dominated by Chinese tech companies would be a world with far less privacy and far more censorship – Facebook’s abuses pale in comparison

Normalizing Japan-China ties poses risks

Japan and China are finally on track to put their relations on a normal path, following Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit to China in late...

Condemning Khashoggi’s Killers

AMSTERDAM – The details of the brutal, premeditated murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi are astonishing. For starters, there is the...

Dull Champions League group stage needs overhaul

As the final matchday of the 2018/19 Champions League group stage approaches, less than half of the groups have any genuine tension. With...

India’s trade ties with China are taking time to bear up

NEW DELHI — China and India may be talking about improving their trade relationship but there is little action to go with the words. According to...

Why yuan strength may be Trump’s best hope to shrink US trade deficit

US President Donald Trump may be a self-proclaimed “Tariff Man” but there’s no evidence from trade data that US levies on imports from China...

The US should stop worrying about ‘imperial’ China

American alarm over a rising Chinese empire is not entirely misplaced, but it should be tempered by self-awareness: America itself is an empire,...

Broken Britain and how we can fix it

Unlike 'Inside the Tent' members of the ‘punditocracy,’ most of whom show no evidence of ever straying beyond London and the big metropolitan...

Salvini the Zionist

Commentary. As an admirer of Trump and someone who considers Orban and the Visegrad countries as his best allies, it was only natural for Italian...

The ‘Exceptional’ Chinese Soft Power: Outlier or Pioneer?

Soft power, the non-coercive power of attraction, is a term coined by Joseph Nye in the late 1980s in his book Bound To Lead. Following the end of...

La digitalización: el futuro de la cadena de suministro

Durante siglos hemos descifrado la realidad basándonos en tres cosas: observaciones, análisis e ideas. El proceso de recolectar información,...

The Trump Administration’s Iran Obsession Encumbers US-China Trade Talks

On the final day of the G-20 summit in Buenos Aires, U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping reached a ceasefire in an ongoing...

Results of Local Elections in Taiwan

We have noted on more than one occasion the growing prominence of Taiwan in all the aspects of the relationship between the two world powers....

What lies beneath the surface of France's Generation Identity?

"We are the Greenpeace of the nationalist right," Aurelien Verhassel, the leader of far-right group Generation Identity, told me during an...

Evacuate the Hebron Settlement Now

Despite the Israeli settlement government’s decision to create yet more facts on the ground in Hebron, the camp that still wants the two-state...

The New Capital of Israel

Despite the Israeli settlement government’s decision to create yet more facts on the ground in Hebron, the camp still hoping for a two-state...

Lies, Damned Lies, and AI

CAMBRIDGE – Algorithms are as biased as the data they feed on. And all data are biased. Even “official” statistics cannot be assumed to stand...

Market turbulence: look to China, not flimsy trade truce or the Fed

Another week, another tumultuous spell of trading in financial markets. Last Monday, the benchmark S&P 500 index joined a global rally in stocks in...