Jordan’s Warning Message

The decision by Jordan’s King Abdullah not to renew Israel’s lease of two parcels of land in southern and northern Israel when it ends in October...

Bugocalypse Now! As humanity faces ecological collapse, Monsanto shrugs

Around the world, people are beginning to ask the same worrisome question: where have all of the bugs gone? Not that anyone particularly misses the...

Trump space force - a real need but hazy planning

With his demand that the Pentagon create a new military service — a Space Force to assure "American dominance in space" — President Donald Trump...

Israel's Very Own McCarthy

The U.S. senator that America rejected in 1954 has been resurrected in the only democracy in the Middle East

Trump’s trolling versus the ‘constitution of knowledge’

WASHINGTON – On the road again, and full of indignation about, or perhaps admiration for, what he called “made-up” and “fabricated”...

The end of America’s China fantasy

WASHINGTON – A long-overdue shift in America’s China policy is underway. After decades of “constructive engagement” — an approach that has...

Pogovorimo  se o  orožju

Tako  smo v slovenskem parlamentu  nedavno videli   odločnega prvega moža Nata, Jensa Stoltenberga, ki  nas je  prišel  okarat zaradi...

Tough-minded strategy the way to rebuild ties with China

Japan and China normalized their diplomatic relations in 1972 after a long period of conflict and upheavals due to World War II and China’s...

The true Saudi story

The Saudi story regarding the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, in which it claims that he died during a fistfight with a Saudi detective, does...

Farewell ‘Dr. Jellyfish,’ who cracked secret of creature’s glow

Decades ago, Japanese organic chemist and marine biologist Osamu Shimomura, who died on Oct. 19 at age 90, made daily visits to a small island off...

Blog: Kushner demands higher levels of betrayal from the PA

After the US unilaterally recognised Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, withdrew all funding from the United Nations Relief and Works Organisation...

Understanding Decentralization in Mozambique with a Ziblatt-Mann Framework

This article has been shortlisted for the 2018 Article Award In this article, I examine decentralization reforms in Mozambique since 1994, through...

China: Is the world’s longest bridge a very expensive political statement?

CHINA is set to unveil its latest spectacular jewel in its engineering crown with the opening of the world’s longest sea-crossing bridge on...

Is China’s thirst for timber wiping out these natural forests?

Investigation on timber harvesting in the Solomon Islands indicates the activity is decimating natural forests there at around 19 times the rate...

Taiwan Is Retaking the Initiative With Its New Southbound Policy

When Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen announced the New Southbound Policy aimed at reinvigorating and expanding ties with Southeast Asia and South...

Letters to the Editor: Colonialism, King Abdullah and B’Tselem

Both colonialism and national liberation In response to “The big denial of Zionist colonialism” (October 19) and “If Zionism were colonial it...

Why Isn't Netanyahu Willing to Bring All the Ethiopian Jews to Israel?

Last month's cabinet resolution to bring 1,000 out of the 8,000 Ethiopian Jews waiting in Addis Ababa and Gondar shows just how difficult it is for...

The Khashoggi murder and the one-man rule of MBS

The "strongman" of Saudi Arabia, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (known as MBS), has been striving for 16 months to turn the country's absolute...

The Digital Divide Is Impeding Development

GENEVA – It is easy to assume that access to the digital economy is ubiquitous, and that online shopping is the natural evolution of commerce....

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The End of Germany’s Two-Party System

BERLIN – The German Social Democrats’ (SPD) existential crisis can no longer be treated as a typical party crisis. The party captured a mere 9.7%...

Odsúdení na kompromis

No ak chce Slovensko zostať naďalej normálnou demokratickou krajinou, tak je v záujme všetkých politikov, aby sme mali funkčný Ústavný...

Will China abandon the Palestinians?

China's Vice President Wang Qishan arrived in Israel on Monday for a four-day visit to head the fourth China-Israel Innovation Committee . He is...

Can Japan-China relations return to ‘normal’?

The first formal Sino-Japanese summit since 2011 will be held Friday. Over the last seven years, President Xi Jinping has consolidated his position...

America’s Homelessness Crisis Is Deepening

BERKELEY – After 95 consecutive months of job growth, the United States unemployment rate has fallen to 3.7%, its lowest point since 1969. Yet...

Is Latin America Facing a Wave of Right-Wing Populism?

SANTIAGO – On October 7, roughly 46% of the Brazilian electorate voted for Jair Bolsonaro for president. This means that almost 50 million...

U.S. INF treaty pullout plays into Russia’s hands

NEW YORK – It may be the highest-stakes move for Donald Trump in his entire presidency — unilaterally removing the United States from yet...

Voters face dilemma with candidate bans

You have to feel sorry for Lee Cheuk-yan. What wouldn’t the 61-year-old do to get back into the Legislative Council? The veteran unionist and...

Time for Japan to shine in diversity

WASHINGTON – Japan and the United States have polar opposite views when it comes to citizenship. But as xenophobia becomes an increasingly...

Apparel industry tempted to move production home

Europeans and Americans have grown used to buying clothes made in Asian countries. But apparel-industry sourcing executives are sure that’s...

Open your markets, China, for everyone's sake

Autumn in Korea

By Bernard Rowan These days, I'm thinking of autumn in Korea. These days, I'm wishing I were there. Until then, I've fond memories to share. I've...

Opening the border crossings will not resolve the Syrian regime’s problem

A week ago, the Naseeb-Jaber border crossing between Syria and Jordan, as well as the Quneitra crossing between Syria and the Golan Heights –...

GOP risks messy struggle for leadership after November vote

WASHINGTON — Win or lose in the race for the majority, U.S. House Republicans are at risk of plunging into a messy leadership battle after the...

La ley de Murphy y el "brexit"

Fue la cumbre más corta de los últimos tiempos: se reunieron, cenaron y se relajaron. La primera ministra de Gran Bretana Theresa May, no...

Galloway: First cut won't be the deepest - deeper wounds are yet to come in the killing of Khashoggi

After Khashoggi himself, the main loser from the murder most foul in Istanbul is US President Donald Trump – as I predicted here weeks ago. His...

Nobel de economía y la cuarta transformación

La semana previa se anunció que el Premio Nobel de economía sería para William Nordhaus y Paul Romer, con quien coincidí en la Universidad de...

Impoverished North Korea splurged $4bil on luxury goods, says lawmaker

SINCE taking power in 2012, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has spent a whopping US$4 billion on luxury imports from China, a South Korean...

Detente and denuclearization

By Choi Sung-jin What would be a fair evaluation of President Moon Jae-in's tour of five European countries last week "as the salesman for North...

How Asia can drive the tech revolution in property

Advanced manufacturing and smart transport are two one-time traditional industries that have been transformed by technological advances, for which...

What Indonesia, Malaysia had to say about the Khashoggi plot

MALAYSIA and Indonesia have openly denounced the high-profile killing of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi in a rare move that threatens to...

India's #MeToo moment

How the US-China trade war could doom the entire planet

The escalating trade feud between the United States and China is increasingly viewed as the opening campaign of a new cold war. But this clash of...

Why Shinzo Abe’s Beijing visit is a big deal for both Japan and China

Notwithstanding their consolidated political positions, Xi Jinping and Shinzo Abe have been unable to return Sino-Japanese relations back to the...

Theresa May Could Back a New Brexit Referendum

LONDON – As the Brexit negotiations enter their endgame, a stalemate has become the most likely outcome. This is good news. It does not mean that...