The lifting of UN sanctions will not solve Eritrea's problems

On November 14, the United Nations Security Council unanimously agreed to  lift the sanctions  it had imposed on Eritrea with Resolution 1907....

Why is Netanyahu so desperate for a ceasefire with Hamas?

It was supposed to be a routine intelligence undercover operation whereby the Israeli agents would infiltrate into "enemy territory", carry out the...

Avoiding Mention of Trump and Bibi at Thanksgiving? Here Are Others to Be Grateful For

I'm going to be thinking a lot about war heroes this Thanksgiving week - all the people who, in ways we may never know, often at great personal...

Japan and Russia could finally end WWII

BERLIN – For decades, every sign Russia and Japan had made progress in talks on disputed territories and a post-World War II peace treaty turned...

Now the U.S. Congress can push Saudi Arabia on Yemen

NEW YORK – The Trump administration is ending one of the most important elements of U.S. military assistance to the Saudi-led war in Yemen: the...

Time for a trade reset, but is China listening?

SINGAPORE: – The delegations from the three largest economies in the world — the United States, China and Japan — are now gone from the recent...

(VEČERNO BRANJE) Iz 212 zgodb se ne da narediti ene

Tudi letošnje lokalne volitve so pokazale, da so predvsem desetine posamičnih tekem, ki jih je zelo težko, skoraj nemogoče spraviti na skupni...

Príznaky zlej politiky

Na rozdiel od Andreja Danka, Richarda Sulíka, Roberta Fica a ďalších politikov pre Miroslava Lajčáka nie je Globálny kompakt o migrácii...

Papua New Guinea security forces storm parliament in Apec pay dispute

POLICE and soldiers stormed Papua New Guinea’s parliament on Tuesday, smashing windows and assaulting security guards, in protest over unpaid...

Cambodia ends prosecution of former-Khmer Rouge generals

CITING a job completed, Cambodia has confirmed it will put a stop to the United Nations-backed tribunal into war crimes that last week convicted...

Israel's Iron Dome Is Not a Full Solution

It is true – it saves lives, but it does not solve the basic problem: protection of the civilian population in the south ■ The only way to stop...

How not to solve Tunisia's extremism problem

On October 29, Mouna Guebla, a 30-year-old unemployed English graduate with no criminal record, detonated a homemade explosive device in downtown...

While 'Europeanising' the Balkans, the EU 'Balkanised' itself

Two years ago I gave an interview to Radio Free Europe that attracted a fair share of attention. Reactions, positive and negative alike, were...

What should Asia expect from Trump after the US midterms?

Much like the rest of the world, Asian countries carefully watched the US midterm elections, anxious about how its outcome would affect US foreign...

How the Swedish left moved right

September's general elections left Sweden with a hung parliament. Two months later, negotiations between parties have not resulted in a viable...

MBS and a murderous web of lies

"Oh what a tangled web we weave/when first we practice to deceive," are lines often attributed to Shakespeare that were, in fact, written in 1808...

Indonesians fight back against South Korean-funded coal plants

ENVIRONMENTAL activists in Indonesia have called on South Korean funders to withdraw their support for new coal-fired plants that they warn will be...

Verska svoboda vodovodarske skupnosti

Slovenska Cerkev je v nečem res izvrstna: v svoji samopromociji, v vsiljevanju svojih tem kot družbeno relevantnih, tudi ko gre zgolj za banalni...

Is 'fake news' threatening global stability?

As cited by American journalist Sharyl Attkisson in her excellent book 'The Smear', John H. Johnson, author of 'Everydata: The Misinformation...

Habayit Hayehudi’s War

It looks like Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has put out the political fire that started when Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman announced his...

A Right-wing Party’s Leader-like Woman and Childish Man

Habayit Hayehudi's No. 2, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, will be busy helping choose Israel’s judges, while her boss Naftali Bennett merely wants...

Arrest of Carlos Ghosn sends shock waves around world

I once visited the ancestral hometown in Lebanon of Carlos Ghosn, the chairman of Nissan Motor Co. But everyone I mentioned his name to looked...

Capitalizing on Africa’s Demographic Dividend

LOMÉ – Africa is home to the world’s youngest and fastest-growing population. With as many as 20 million young people poised to join the...

China, the fastest growing region for the outlet mall sector

Designer outlet operators, which previously focused on the US and Europe, are now casting their eyes further eastwards to Asia, most notably to...

Airbnb's Ban on West Bank Is Big Win for BDS, Not Necessarily for anti-Semites

It won't even scratch the Israeli economy, or even that of the settlements, but it did drive the government into hysterics

The real lessons of Carlos Ghosn's downfall

Woes of foreign trainee program raise doubts on new visa system

Recent revelations have highlighted serious flaws and lapses in the way the government has prepared its policy initiative to allow more foreign...

The real cause of the fall in oil prices (hint: it’s not China)

Fans of Game of Thrones know that winter is coming, but it has arrived early for traders who have been long of oil, with many having been frozen...

A brave new US Congress or same old hypocrisy?

Since the mid-1990s, the US Congress has abdicated its oversight of the executive’s foreign and national security policies owing to increased...

Has a Ray of Hope Appeared in Relationship Between the US and China?

The New Eastern Outlook has been covering the current shape and transformation of Sino-American relations on a regular basis. This is quite...

Yemen Genocide About Oil Control

The ongoing de facto genocide in the Republic of Yemen in a war whose most intense phase began in 2015, has until very recently been all but...

The limits of Beijing’s charm offensive

STOCKHOLM – Over the last decade, China has taken an increasingly muscular approach to relations with East Asian countries. But in recent months,...

China and the US: the odd couple in an on-again, off-again relationship

Amid the intensifying competition and escalating confrontation between the United States and China, the Brookings Institution and Yale University...

Miri Regev’s Obnoxious Assault on Gantz Is Taken From Donald Trump’s Playbook

From McCain to McRaven, the U.S. President has shown the world that decades of decorated service mean nothing

Chinese nationalism: The dog that barks in the night

LONDON – It comes up often in conversations about where China is heading — the reference, often sotto voce, to that great emerging global...

Hong Kong lacks commitment to poverty relief

Another year, another jump in the number of people living below the poverty line. But we can always count on Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung...

APEC discord reflects a global cooperation system in crisis

Measuring, and Managing, More Sustainable Growth

For more than two generations, economic orthodoxy has held that governments that invest and regulate the least govern best. But Diane Coyle,...