Reform of power institutions

Efforts needed to get people's support Key figures of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK), National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the...

Holiday alert

There should be no let-up in anti-virus guidelines With the summer holiday season at its peak, cases of small COVID-19 outbreaks are emerging...

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Crisis in 2021?

By John Burton Could the Korean Peninsula see a renewed nuclear crisis in 2021? The probable election of Joe Biden as the next U.S. president in...

Can the U.S. and China cooperate? Sure.

Washington – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo last week delivered a scorched-earth assessment of just how bad things have gotten between the...

Are the tech titans at bay?

Idealism in politics

By Adam Borowski It is fair to say there are people who want to change the world for the better when they enter politics. They are idealists who...

What Pompeo gets right - and wrong - about China

By Ivo Daalder Secretary of State Mike Pompeo traveled to the Nixon Presidential Library last week to proclaim the American opening to China a...

Levica pod masko

Pred leti sem se nekoliko bolj poglobljeno, čeprav v čisto drobni knjižici, lotil nasilja pod masko. Gre za na žalost pogost pojav, ko si...

‘Pax’ Americana: Russia and China are not ‘Barbarians’!

A decadent Roman Empire was ultimately brought down by vigorous Germanic tribes, which it viewed as ‘barbarians’. The Pax Americana is being...

Oppy: the life of a rover

When NASA successfully landed the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity – nicknamed ‘Oppy’ – in 2004, the plan was to explore the Martian terrain...

Universal unions

For some time now, union membership has been steadily declining. In the United States, after reaching a peak in 1954 of 34.8 per cent for salaried...

Solidarity with the Germans

ATHENS – During the worst clashes between the Greek and German governments amid the euro crisis, a German official attempted to dissuade me from...

American university students are coddled, thin-skinned snowflakes, and social media is to blame

For those born around 1995, this column will likely be filed away under the heading: ‘Aging Generation X-er with No Clue Rails against Evils of...

India's Article 370 experiment in Kashmir has failed

International community must help restart talks among region's key stakeholders

Tŕnisté spájanie maďarských strán

Na zjednotení sa zatiaľ nezúčastňujú dve strany, pričom hlavne neúčasť Maďarského fóra, ktoré vedie bývalý minister Zsolt Simon, je...

O bonusoch a ľuďoch

Takto sa na Slovensku zvykne postupovať vo všeličom, nuž nečudo, že sme krajinou s nevídanou mierou diskontinuity. A to aj v takých...

Indonesia must tackle corona-driven growth in anti-Chinese xenophobia

Hostile theories and racist hoaxes require government and media intervention

Is the Deterioration of US-China Relations Temporary or Permanent?

The policy that the United States has recently been pursuing towards China would give you the impression that America’s political elite are...

Germany should not ban protests by coronavirus deniers

Even though the protests against coronavirus restrictions are disturbing, they are a sign of a free society and should be allowed. A ban is just...

¿Qué dice realmente el Acuerdo de Escazú?

El Convenio 169 sobre Pueblos Indígenas y Tribales fue adoptado por la Organización Internacional del Trabajo en 1989. Ese convenio establece,...

Retiro del 10% y la importancia de la identidad digital

El lunes de la pasada semana, el gobierno de Chile envió a Contraloría, el proyecto de Ley que permite a más de 11 millones de afiliados el retiro...

Should Governments Spend Away?

CHICAGO – Advanced economies have already spent enormous amounts providing pandemic relief to households and small- and medium-size businesses....

US dollar vs yuan: why China’s threat against HSBC rings hollow – for now

LAST week, HSBC was caught in the middle of a media storm over accusations that the bank colluded with the US government to take down Huawei, and...

What We Are Told and Not Told About the South China Sea

If war breaks out between China and the United States, there is a high probability that the precipitating factor will be the South China Sea. The...

NGOs and States in Global Politics: A Brief Review

The NGO research community should resist attempts by the still-state-centric International Relations subfield to caricature the complex dynamics of...

Zimbabwe’s Outlaw Regime

PARIS – On July 20, the Zimbabwean authorities arrested the internationally renowned investigative journalist Hopewell Chin’ono and charged him...

Forever Family protestors dressed as black paramilitaries look like Britain’s NFAC, and are not helping the fight against racism

Acknowledging August 1 as the day that the Slavery Aboliton Act came into force in the UK in 1834 is something that should be celebrated by our...

Why tedious virtue signaling is making millions of TV viewers switch off the NBA and MLB

With the return of basketball and baseball to US TV sets, Americans were looking forward to watching something that would demonstrate a return to...

Why Zoom Can’t Save the World

CAMBRIDGE – Before COVID-19, spending on business travel totaled $1.5 trillion a year (about 1.7% of world GDP). Now it is down to a trickle, as...

Tales of modernization and secularism

So the story goes, unfortunately readily bought by the majority of fresh arrivals in Ankara in general, that once upon a time a spaceship has...

Save El Al, Not Top Shareholders

Where Are the Religious Zionists in Defense of Netanyahu?

How Tokyo sees Pompeo’s ‘Communist China’ speech

Tokyo’s reaction to the July 23 speech by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on “Communist China” seems to be ambivalent at best. The...

Lee Teng-hui: An icon of Asian democracy

Lee Teng-hui, one of Asia’s democracy icons, died last week at the age of 97. As president of Taiwan, he steered the island faithfully and...

The Other Putin on Europe’s Doorstep

BERLIN – Is Turkey the new Russia? That question is increasingly being asked in European capitals as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan adopts...

Controversy in Hagia Sophia conversion

By John J. Metzler Its very name, Hagia Sophia, evokes the ancient mysteries of Byzantium. Its setting along the Golden Horn on the majestic...

UK's Stunning Hypocrisy over Hong Kong

Further evidence the UK hides behind “human rights” rather than stands for them was demonstrated when London laced sanctions on Hong Kong after...

The tyranny of 'Keep your voice down, or you'll spread the virus'

Watching the ongoing sequel to "Hanzawa Naoki," a 2013 television drama series aired by the Tokyo Broadcasting System, raises my pulse not just...

Abe must show he actually has a plan to combat new virus wave

The new coronavirus is on a fresh rampage in Japan, picking up speed and expanding its reach. The new wave of the contagion is spreading both...

Stop Splitting Newborns From Moms With COVID-19

The global war for 5G heats up

Berlin – U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s claim that “the tide is turning against Huawei” seems to have been vindicated by several...

Will Japan sign the new nuclear weapons treaty?

Pretty soon, the dusty, cold-war-bargained 1968 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) is set to be overshadowed by a brand new, zero-tolerance...

COVID-19 Is Beating Trump

MILAN/STANFORD – Given the stark differences between US President Donald Trump and Joe Biden, his presumptive Democratic challenger, the outcome...