The nation is emerging from dark days amid fresh green

Green maple leaves, among early summer foliage, stand out for their exquisite beauty and have been appreciated from ancient times. Yoshida Kenko, a...

Univerza – čista hiša?

Na temo univerze kot čiste hiše se je pred kratkim odvijala polemika med nedvomno kvalificiranimi bralci, med drugimi dekanom Fakultete za...

If Only the World Would Force Israel’s Hand

Hong Kong's national security law is end of city's freedom

Japan must learn from failure of Abe's Russia policy

Putin has used potential transfer of Southern Kuril Islands to manipulate Tokyo

The Country Held Hostage

Citizens of the World, Reunite!

WASHINGTON, DC – The coronavirus pandemic has plunged the world into a dangerous state of disequilibrium, in which the siren call of populist...

The final nights

‘When I can’t do things for someone else, I simply become unhappy,’ says Loes Prakke, waiting outside the front door of a small house late one...

Money and modern life

Georg Simmel was born in the heart of Berlin in 1858. That city epitomised the tensions of Germany’s special path to modernity. Rapid urbanisation...

Turks and Kurds as ‘cowboys vs. natives’

Let’s assume that you are a –for some obscure reason an utterly uninformed- foreign diplomat arriving in Ankara. You have some vague knowledge...

Time to Keep Your Word to Ethiopian Jews, Netanyahu

Trump Promoting anti-Semites Won’t Stop pro-Israel Jews Voting for Him

25 percent of U.S. Jews are convinced the president is their best friend. There is nothing Trump could do or say, short of bombing Israel, that...

If Trump Loves Jews So Much, Why Does He Celebrate America's Biggest anti-Semites?

Growing geopolitical risks

North Korea should not bolster nuclear capacity North Korea is again raising tensions on the Korean Peninsula by stating it will bolster its...

Absurd attacks on Gyeongju

Offering protective items to Japan deserves praise, not criticism Gyeongju Mayor Joo Nak-young is under fire for providing some Japanese cities...

Public support needed for firms during COVID-19 but with limits

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party has compiled a recommendation for extending more than 10 trillion yen ($93 billion) in public support for...

Play ball

By John Burton In early May, ESPN, the American sports broadcaster, started showing six Korean Baseball Organization (KBO) games a week for sport-...

Learning lessons of pandemic

By Javier Solana MADRID ― Among its many other effects, the COVID-19 crisis has intensified the pre-existing geopolitical rivalry between China...

The Lonesome Death of Hong Kong

Seven days in May - quiet days speak loudly to us all

By Martin Schram This was the week when despairing global leaders ― with an urgency unlike anything since World War II ― looked to the modern...

No need to be perfect

By Kim Sun-ae At this vegan cafe where I sometimes drop by, customers can enjoy vegan beverages and deserts. The husband who is a barista uses soy...

Race for space defense

By Kang Han-tae Beyond the ongoing space race between the United States and China, many other nations with advanced defense capabilities have been...

In the post-pandemic conflicts to come, Asia will have to fend for itself

With the scale and impact of the coronavirus pandemic, we are told to expect a different kind of world when lockdown and quarantine regimes are...

China tests global diplomacy and economy

New York – Long-repressed contradictions have a way of flaring up in public in times of stress. China is suddenly at the center of two of them,...

The impact of COVID-19 on Africa

New York – The African continent’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic has provided valuable lessons for the rest of the world in meeting this...

How Germany contained the coronavirus

NASA should beware of viruses from outer space

Kuala Lumpur – This summer, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration will launch a rover designed to collect samples of the Martian...

Lockdowns haven’t proved they’re worth the havoc

New York – My junior and senior years in high school were 1968 and 1969; five decades later, I can still remember some of the main events of that...

Japan must start drafting an Indo-Pacific charter

After watching dozens of webinars, including one co-hosted by the Canon Institute for Global Studies and the Stimson Center, it seems clear that no...

Beijing draws the line with Hong Kong

The Chinese government has emerged from the first wave of the COVID-19 outbreak confident and ready to assert itself ever more vigorously at home...

The Future of Global Power

BERLIN – The COVID-19 pandemic is arguably the first truly global crisis of the twenty-first century. The only modern historical parallels to the...