Political correctness preventing child births in Japan

Even the Antarctic penguins have heard about Japan’s declining population; so massive is the obnoxious media storm. Pan-childlessness is a great...

Can the Belt and Road Become a Trap for China?

CAMBRIDGE – Critics often claim that China is using its massive “Belt and Road Initiative” as a form of coercive “debt-trap diplomacy” to...

Cleaning up corruption in Malaysia goes beyond Najib

For those of us who have spent years on the front lines of the fight against corruption in Malaysia, last month marked an historic first. Former...

Will Young Voters’ Apathy Take Down Europe?

PARIS – The need for a strong, unified Europe has never been greater. But enthusiasm for the European project has rarely been so weak, at least...

Dve strany plynovej mince

Diverzifikácia surovinových zdrojov je zaklínadlom našej i európskej politiky dlhé desaťročia. Napriek všetkému, závislosť slovenskej...

South Korea's Moon must confront economic headwinds

In memory of a literary gangster

I would not be a writer today if it wasn't for Binyavanga Wainaina. When I was 21, in my third year of university, I was on what was called an "...

Israel’s Attorney General Better Not Let Netanyahu Fool Him

(POGLED) Krizantema siromakova in bogastvo bogatega

Berem, kako Aleksander Čeferin, predsednik evropske nogometne zveze Uefa, varčuje pred slovesnim finalom lige prvakov, ob skorajšnjem zadnjem...

Who should pay for higher education in Japan?

Japan has enacted legislation that will expand support for higher education, including grants and scholarships for college and trade school...

Throw the Palestinian Beggars a Bone

It’s now up to Seoul to break impasse over wartime laborers

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has repeatedly called for “future-oriented relations” with Japan. We understand that his words were based on...

China is a major global lender; it should act like one

The US should have no room for alliances with murderers

Reports that three prominent and moderate Saudi Arabian Sunni scholars held on multiple charges of “terrorism” will be executed shortly after...

Futility and extortion at the Manama conference

Despite the majority Palestinian national consensus that the Trump plan is a consecration of Israeli occupation policies in its right-wing...

The EU’s Four Challenges

MADRID – This year’s European Parliament election has spurred months of nail biting. Will the pro-European center hold? Will the body be too...

Trump’s foreign policy has finally run out of road

WASHINGTON - A superpower can get away with a lot. It can sometimes muscle its way through tough situations; it can duck the consequences of sloppy...

The Europe of Tomorrow

MADRID – Every five years, the European Union engages in an exercise of self-awareness. The European Parliament elections allow us to look at...

The US will proudly go to war with Iran for Saudi oil

Since coming to office, US President Donald Trump has grabbed headlines for his loud declarations; that he called the Saudi king and demanded more...

Zakaj je Kurz potegnil kratko

Zloraba položaja, podkupovanje, ponarejanje dokumentov, goljufija – preiskava je trajala več kot deset let, obtožnica je dolga skoraj tisoč...

Think twice about outrageous CEO retirement pay

Daimler chief Dieter Zetsche is just the latest to have his retirement pay package highlighted. Though modest by international standards, these...

From joker to peacemaker? Zelensky needs to follow his words with actions to end Ukraine’s conflict

For the past five years, the mainly Russian-speaking people in eastern Ukraine have had to endure bombardments and sniper attack from military...

The price of the EU's inaction in the Middle East

As the EU has adopted a noticeably more pragmatic stance towards Arab autocrats, shifts in the balance of power within this strategically vital...

Let's not make a drama about Skripal case before important questions are answered

There's been neither sight nor sound of Yulia or Sergei Skripal. Yulia was last seen in a short video statement released on May 23, 2018, her...

A part-technocratic government in Austria may not be enough

Analysis. Ibiza-gate has sent the Austrian government into shock, with President Alexander van der Bellen proposing a technocratic government to...

EU’s Russian interference trail goes cold

They tried. They really tried. For years the European establishment has been sounding the alarm about a seemingly ever-imminent Russian...

Freedom of Speech and Pure Science in the Digital Holocene

According to Eric Hobsbawm, who coined the term “the short 20th century”, the 20th century was over in 1991. Others counter that it was over in...

Remembering D-Day: Questioning How We Compartmentalize War

When and where was D-Day? As we approach the 75th anniversary of the Normandy landings we will be asked to focus on a specific day, in a specific...

Negotiating ‘America First’ trade with Trump

BEPPU, OITA PREF. - U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to come to Tokyo on Saturday to meet with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Trump indicated...

A China Food Crisis More Danger Than Trade War?

China faces a threat to its agriculture that could do far more damage to her political stability and economy than the escalating USA tariff war. In...

How Modi Became India’s Hindu Nationalist Messiah

Modi ran for reelection less as prime minister, and more as leader of India’s largest cult, his popularity barely dented by his obvious failures....

Indonesian police fire tear gas to break up election protest

INDONESIAN police fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators in downtown Jakarta early Wednesday after a rally opposed to President Joko Widodo's re-...

Kushner's squeeze play on Jordan's King Abdullah

In March of this year, King Abdullah of Jordan met the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in Washington. By all accounts, the closed-door meeting...

Netanyahu Is Too Distracted to Face the Threats at Israel's Doorstep

Norihiro Kato’s call for Japan to face up to reality of ties with U.S.

“Nippon Nikki” (Japan Diary), an account of the Allied occupation of Japan by American journalist Mark Gayn (1909-1981), describes a scene where...

Thailand’s competition law dead since arrival

THAILAND was the first nation in Southeast Asia to implement an effective competition law back in 1999 when such laws were unfamiliar to most...

Has Austerity Been Vindicated?

LONDON – Harvard University Professor Alberto Alesina has returned to the debate on budget deficits, austerity, and growth. Back in 2010, Alesina...

How Inflation Could Return

NEW YORK – Debates about inflation in advanced economies have changed remarkably over the past decades. Setting aside (mis)measurement issues,...

Populism and identity politics damage Southeast Asian democracy

In Italy, the ports are open to arms but closed to humans

Commentary. The ports are open for weapons shipments, while the same ports are closed for boatloads of desperate human beings, by the order of the...

Israel's Melting Pot Has Won

US fires arrow into Huawei’s Achilles heel

THE Trump administration's move to block US technology sales to Huawei shoots an arrow deep into the Chinese tech giant's Achilles heel -- its...