Trump just got re-elected

It's over. While Democrats and the familiar clique of the centrist media types quibble like bickering patent lawyers about the fine print, the...

It could be the most chaotic election in UK’s history - Ken Livingstone on European vote 2019

Because of the current chaos in Britain’s politics no-one can be certain these EU elections are going to happen. For the last two years, everyone...

Italian embrace of China’s new Silk Road meets abrasive transatlantic double standards

In one fell swoop, the Italian overture for joining the ambitious China-led global infrastructure and trade model is a clear sign of the times....

Mueller’s report, finding no Russia collusion or conspiracy, is a major indictment of US media

For two years, mainstream US media has point blank refused to entertain the idea that there was no collusion between Trump’s 2016 campaign and...

Voľby: O aké víťazstvo ide?

Ani jeden z nich nemá skúsenosti z domácej politiky, čo však samo osebe v prezidentskom úrade, ktorý by mal ľudí i politickú scénu...

China and Its Western Critics

HONG KONG – In Washington, DC, a bipartisan consensus about China has emerged: the United States is facing a trade-manipulating, authoritarian...

Let the People Decide on Brexit

MUNICH – For a while, it seemed that British Prime Minister Theresa May and her government’s supporters in Parliament could decide on Brexit by...

Bad News for Women

LONDON – Nancy Pelosi is the highest-ranking elected female politician in the history of the United States. Theresa May is only the second female...

Banchan - Korean eating paradise

By Bernard Rowan I'm writing about Korean side dishes or banchan. These wonderful and varied fruits of land and sea make a beautiful accompaniment...

EU must be united on trade with China

China is trying to divide the European Union on the issue of trade. It must not be allowed to succeed, says DW's Christoph Hasselbach. By presenting...

Indonesia must seize trade war opportunity

Referéndum en México, ¿para qué?

El objetivo de Andrés Manuel López Obrador con su propuesta de referéndum es eliminar los mecanismos de representación existentes -el legislativo-...

New Perspectives on China’s Relations with the World

This is an excerpt from New Perspectives on China’s Relations with the World: National, Transnational and International. Get your free copy here.  ...

El agitador de Trump en Alemania

Ya se conocen sus palabras mordaces. Ahora, el embajador de Estados Unidos en Alemania, Richard Grenell, ha vuelto a manifestarse. No está...

Why Trump recognised Israel's claim of the Golan Heights

While the US decision to recognise Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights is primarily being explained away with geopolitics, it in fact has...

UN and EU statements reveal their overt support for Israel

Predictably, the UN’s first remarks about Israel’s bombing of the Gaza Strip focused more on a single rocket reaching north of Tel Aviv than...

Is China winning the global battle over Uighurs?

LONDON - For Turkish firms exporting marble and other stone to an increasingly lucrative Chinese market, the Xiamen International Stone Fair should...

Lessons from the past should help reduce disaster-related deaths

Since the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake, which ravaged the city of Kobe and surrounding areas, there have been at least 5,000 recognized cases of...

Investing in Inclusive Growth

SEOUL – Inequality has skyrocketed in recent decades, and those who have not shared in the fruits of economic growth and development are becoming...

Brexit and the speaker’s tale

OXFORD - The speaker of Britain’s House of Commons, John Bercow, is all over the news in the United Kingdom at the moment. And, as the Brexit...

Thanks to Mueller, 2020 won’t be about 2016

WASHINGTON - Special counsel Robert Mueller’s report is a gift to the nation, which now knows what was already a reasonable surmise: that its...

Elderly workers: Expectations and challenges

In his speech at the January conference of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe noted that while Japan’s...

The reckoning finally arrives for Trump’s critics

WASHINGTON - “The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its...

Kako je Janša demontiral “svojo” osamosvojitev

Najbolj zgovorna politična fotografija minulega tedna je nedvomno tista tako rekoč postkoitalna, na kateri vidimo Milana Zvera, Viktorja Orbana...

Rich nation, unhappy people

By Choi Sung-jin Even in this hectic country where yesterday's hot news becomes an old story tomorrow, one significant event seems to have passed...

Japan must take part in plans for the moon

International rules involving lunar resources, such as mining and other business transactions, have begun to be formulated. This stems from the...

Help on way for ‘fairies’ in battle against deer to return to island

German author Friedrich Schnack (1888-1977) said butterflies may be something dreamed by flowers or could have been flowers themselves in the past....

Golan Heights, the US, and the shameful Arab regimes

The Arab electronic armies insult and curse Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a daily basis for being the only one to express his rejection...

Gantz’s Quintessential ‘Israeliness’ Is His Secret Weapon Against Netanyahu

The prime minister has experience and savvy on his side, but his rival’s Israeli persona strikes fear in his heart, spurring his increasingly...

Questions from  the Jordan, Egypt, Iraq meeting

The Tripartite Jordanian-Egyptian-Iraqi Summit held in Cairo raised three fundamental questions: First: Are we trying to restore the Arab...

A Prosperous Time for the Russian Defense Industry

It is well known that military and technical cooperation is a sign that there is a great degree of trust and strong ties between the two states to...

US higher education: A system of meritocracy that never was

Earlier this month, a $25m fraud scheme which helped children of wealthy parents cheat their way into top American universities was unearthed by US...

US backs Israel’s ‘sovereignty’ over Golan Heights, proving sovereignty is not something it respects

US President Donald Trump signed a declaration on Monday recognizing Israeli “sovereignty” over the disputed, strategically important and...

Could drones revolutionise the agriculture sector?

BESIDES getting cool aerial shots of geographies, drone technology is expanding its popularity in agricultural use as well. The post Could drones...

With a clear shift to the right, the Palestinians can’t expect much from Israel’s General Election

After a period of relative silence, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has announced his hope that the Israeli elections will end with someone at...

Facing Up to Facebook

According to Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder and CEO, his creation was supposed “to make the world more open and connected.” After...

How to tackle Indonesia’s persistent gender inequality

INDONESIAN President Joko Widodo’s track record of considering gender representation in ministerial appointments is lauded in global circles....

Policymakers need to understand what drives women to radicalisation

BRITISH-born ISIS bride Shamima Begum and American Hoda Muthana are a hot topic at home and abroad, their faces splashed across newspapers and...

Can the UK Parliament break the Brexit deadlock?

This week, the British Parliament decided to take Brexit into its own hands. On Monday night, they accepted an amendment that means they will now...

Thailand -- deja vu all over again

Why we say their names

Commentary. Seventy-five years ago, fascist troops executed 335 Italian partisans in Rome. At a small ceremony Sunday, all the names were read....

Choose Calm, Not Punishment

The rocket that hit Moshav Mishmeret on Monday is apparently about to bring about a “powerful response,” as the prime minister puts it. What sort...

Druze in occupied Golan: ‘We have Syrian blood’

Reportage. Arabs in the Golan Heights are responding with protest to Donald Trump’s recognition of their territory as part of Israel. ‘Trump can...

Will Europe resist the changing world?

Commentary. With China interested in new sea routes, Europe has a choice: it can keep thinking only of the interests of the major continental...

Is China winning global battle for silence over Uighurs?

For Turkish firms exporting marble and other stone to an increasingly lucrative Chinese market, the Xiamen International Stone Fair should have...

Remembering the Egypt-Israel peace treaty

In the aftermath of the Camp David accords in 1979, Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty on the White House lawn, marking an end to decades of...

Making China Great Again, Reorienting Europe

In 1820,China’s economy was the largest in the world, as it had been for centuries. Then the Opium Wars initiated by theBritish Empirefoisted...