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Ongoing GSOMIA-Related Issues between South Korea and Japan

While continuing to monitor reports on the confrontation between Seoul and Tokyo, we are attentively following what effect it is having on regional...

Konstantin Asmolov

West Pushes Russia and China Closer Together

With Beijing celebrating the 70th anniversary of the Chinese Communist Party’s rule, there’s been a heated discussion across the Western world...

Ron Henry

Forget About Israel's Arabs, Kahol Lavan

The process started a while ago, but the nightmarish days of last week made it clear to me, at least, that the Joint List can’t link up with...

Odeh Bisharat

Netanyahu Is Worse Than Kahane

“A minority government supported by Arab parties is a danger to this country”, tweeted Netanyahu four hours before the IDF launched the missile...

Esawi Freige

Israel's Real Minority Government

As part of the campaign being waged to delegitimize any option that includes a government supported by some or all Arab parties, multiple spokesmen...

Amir Fuchs

The Israeli Nation Is a Fiction

Throughout history, nations have sought to establish a system of common values that would define them as a people. The political philosopher John...

Sagi Elbaz

Stroke death rate highest in areas with most ramen shops, study says

Countries that consume the most chocolate per head have the highest numbers of Nobel laureates per capita, according to a study by medical...

Vox Populi

Scandal at Japan Post group shows need to change corporate culture

Policy sales at Japan Post Insurance Co. have tumbled as the company has stopped sales promotion efforts after it came under fire for dubious sales...

Editorial

Why don’t the Egyptian people revolt?

The civilian opposition elites abroad, backed by groups in the community with an Islamic background, complain about the flatness and stagnation of...

Rania Mostafa

South Korea can reform and upgrade US alliance

By Stephen Costello Those who suggest a larger or bolder role for South Korea, toward either North Korea or its U.S. ally, are often met with...

Stephen Costello

'Blessing of Rainbow'

By Kim Ae-ran Many years ago after surgery, I was hospitalized for several days. At that time, I was wondering if I could continue my work as an...

Kim Ae-Ran

Trump's tweet sets dangerous precedent

By Peter Funt We interrupt this impeachment hearing to bring you a message from Donald Trump: "Everywhere Marie Yovanovitch went turned bad." That...

Peter Funt

Volatility on Peninsula

By Tong Kim South Korea is again facing multiple challenges to its security and peace from friends and foes alike, including the U.S., Japan, North...

Tong Kim

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Why Thailand is Buying Russian Helicopters

Beginning in 2011, the Kingdom of Thailand began replacing aging US helicopters not with newer US-built models, but with Russian and Italian...

Joseph Thomas

Twenty Years Ago & Today - Internet Disruption, School Shootings & Neoliberalism in Crisis

Everyone wants to predict the future. This is why for thousands of years astrologers, sorcerers, and psychics have continued to rake in money,...

Caleb Maupin

Protesters set fire to hold off police at Hong Kong campus

Pro-democracy demonstrators holed up in a Hong Kong university campus set the main entrance ablaze Monday to prevent surrounding police moving in,...

Asian Correspondent Staff

A Genuine State of Emergency

In a last-ditch effort to prevent Kahol Lavan Chairman Benny Gantz from being able to form a government in the final moments before his mandate to...

Haaretz Editorial

Can Japan persuade Southeast Asia not to break the rules-based order as China dangles cash?

“Japan will offer its utmost support for efforts by Asean member countries to ensure the security of the seas and skies and rigorously maintain...

David Arase

Inept opposition blues

The suffixe “oğlu” denominates “the son of” -as in “Jefferson”, for example. So here is a tale of three “-oglus”, for the much...

Aydin Selcen

Taiwan halts sales of three Huawei phones in wording row

Taiwan has suspended sales of three Huawei smartphone models that listed it as "Taiwan, China" for timezones and contacts -- a designation the...

Asian Correspondent Staff

Gender discrimination in China’s labour income

INCOME inequality has been a persistent feature of China’s rapid growth and development since the late 1970s. A gender earnings gap has persisted...

East Asia Forum

South Asia's turn to illiberal democracy

In Sri Lanka, the Rajapaksa brothers' return confirms region's autocratic drift

James Crabtree

Britain’s politicians would be wrong to undo rail closures

“The Reshaping of British Railways”, published in 1963, made its principal author, Dr Richard Beeching, the most hated civil servant in...

Japan Today

Netanyahu and Other Signs

1. “What I’m lacking is a clear, sharp statement from all of Kahol Lavan’s chiefs that they accept the president’s blueprint,” Avigdor...

Carolina Landsmann

Will Beijing undergo a revolution of rising expectations?

ZURICH – For more than a decade, China has accounted for a quarter or more of global economic growth. With its economy currently navigating a...

Barry Eichengreen

Does “capitalism” fully explain the ruthless extraction and consumption we witness?

By Emanuel Pastreich Capitalism has become the most popular term on the internet, serving as a catch-all concept that explains all aspects of an...

Emanuel Pastreich

Four Little Words

“Have a nice day.” Four little words. Usually well intended. Sometimes perfunctory. Mostly an offhanded exchange. Words that prompt you to move...

Linda Seiford Ph.d

Heed human rights situation in North

Seoul under fire for deporting North Korean fishermen The Moon Jae-in administration is being criticized for turning a blind eye to the dire human...

Editorial

Put alliance before money

Excessive US demand will damage partnership South Korea is under growing pressure from the Washington to pay more to keep the 28,500 United States...

Editorial

Od sramote do blišča

‘Hodiš po ozkih ulicah, polnih smeti, ljudi in prometa. S težavo se premikaš po pločniku, kjer radi posedajo ljudje, za katere niti ne veš, ali...

Ahmed Pašić

Dobré a zlé návrhy v letnom paláci

Je dôležité vedieť, či sa minú stámilióny eur navyše, keďže gazdovanie napokon pocíti bežný občan. Deficit raz bude treba zaplatiť,...

Martin Kováčik

Tribute to Trump's rescuer

By Martin Schram As America's House impeachment inquiry gains verifying evidence, we are pausing today to recognize the one person who apparently...

Martin Schram