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By Lee Geun The buzzwords of today's international politics, "the U.S.-China hegemonic competition," refer to two superpowers that...
By James M. Dorsey Sports governance worldwide has had the legs knocked out from under it. Yet, national and international sports...
By Christine Flowers The first person I thought when I heard that Prince Philip had died was Elizabeth, a queen in the greater world...
By Andrew Hammond President Vladimir Putin signed a new law last week that could keep him in power till 2036, potentially alongside...
By Yun Sun Since the beginning of the "freefall" of U.S.-China relations during the global COVID-19 pandemic last year, tension over...
By Lee Kang-seop Lee Kang-seop, minister of government legislation / Courtesy of Ministry of Government Legislation An online seminar...
By Ahn Ho-young The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington,...
By Brigitte Granville LONDON ― COVID-19 has wounded almost every developed country, but the truth is that living standards in many of...
By John J. Metzler Storm clouds are gathering along Mozambique's northern coast. Islamic State militants launched a coordinated and...
By Kim Won-soo The human race is facing the biggest threat of an unprecedented self-destructive force created by people. Since last...
By Steven L. Shields In times like these, with all the concerns and sometimes anger expressed over cultural appropriation, I find it...
By Jorge G. Castaneda MEXICO CITY ― With the United States beset by the COVID-19 pandemic, a deep economic recession, and heightened...
By Richard Pennington One of my former professors at Stephen F. Austin State University met with some local Korean War veterans...
By Tom Plate Perhaps no gloomier assessment of the China-U.S. relationship can be made than to note that, were it to sink yet another...
By Danny Tyree My wife and I would never have met, except that her family fled a densely populated state when she was 11. Given her...
By Trudy Rubin When President Joe Biden agreed with a newscaster that Vladimir Putin was "a killer," I initially thought it a tactical error. ...
By Joseph S. Nye, Jr. CAMBRIDGE ― During Joe Biden's long career in the U.S. Senate, he established a record of supporting human rights as a...
By Anne-Marie Slaughter and Samm Sacks Anne-Marie Slaughter Samm Sacks WASHINGTON, DC ― The Sino-American relationship is at...
By Daniel Shin Everything has value. However, flawed rationale can't justify the hype behind the stock market. Many people have found...
By Song Kyung-jin I take the liberty of guessing that perhaps it is the by-elections taking place in the two largest cities in Korea that forced...
Candidates should play fair to the last minute Rival candidates running in the April 7 mayoral by-elections in Seoul and Busan are indulging...
By Joschka Fischer BERLIN ― Angela Merkel's 16-year reign as German chancellor is coming to an end. Whatever one's feelings about...
By Robert D. Atkinson One reason for Korea's phenomenal economic and technological rise over the last 60 years was that its industrial policies...
By Park Jin With President Moon Jae-in having less than a year left in office, Korea is faced with mounting challenges in the areas of diplomacy,...
By Trudy Rubin The ugly verbal spat between Secretary of State Antony Blinken and top Chinese officials who met March 18 in Anchorage,...
By Kaushik Basu ITHACA ― It feels strange to have known a country since its birth. For much of 1971, Bangladesh (then East Pakistan)...
By Yun Byung-se "It is peace for our time, peace with honor," British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain declared to jubilant crowds in...
By Ahn Choong-yong Chinese President Xi Jinping made global headlines at the APEC summit on Nov. 20, 2020 by announcing that China was...
By Tom Plate The future is not always all that tough to predict: "Should both Pacific powers remain frozen in stereotype, high-level...
By Peter Roff The $2 trillion in new spending just enacted by congressional Democrats is a COVID relief bill in name only. It's plenty of money...
By Jeffrey Jones I have had the privilege of witnessing the remarkable transformation of Korea from a very poor and tattered country to...
By Sandip Kumar Mishra Most North Korea watchers were surprised that the joint statement issued on March 12 after the first summit of...
By Troy Stangarone Earlier this month, leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as Quad, comprising the United...
By Lee Seong-hyon Many outside observers predict that the Chinese economy this year would easily grow by more than 8 percent. But the...
By Yang Moo-jin Facing the spring of 2021, the clock is ticking once again for Northeast Asia. On one hand, the Biden administration...
By Ian Bowers The force structure of any navy is not only a reflection of a state's strategic and operational context but also its...
By Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana The world is emerging from the biggest social and economic shock in living memory, but it will be a long...
By Park Jung-won President Moon Jae-in seems to have lost some of the driving force behind his laborious quest for a "peace process" on...
By Ahn Ho-young Two weeks ago in this column, I wrote why I believe in institution-building and how I used to work to regularize 2 2...
By Kim Joon-hyung Currently, South Korea is not a participating country of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, aka Quad. But with the...
By Michael Breen When Seoul City and some local governments last month ordered all non-Korean workers to submit to COVID testing,...
By Michael Breen When Seoul City and some local governments last month ordered all non-Korean workers to submit to COVID testing,...
By Kim Joon-hyung Currently, South Korea is not a participating country of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, aka Quad. But with the U.S.-China...
By Sandip Kumar Mishra Most North Korea watchers were surprised that the joint statement issued on March 12 after the first summit meet...
By Ahn Ho-young Two weeks ago in this column, I wrote why I believe in institution-building and how I used to work to regularize 2 2 foreign and...
By Lee Seong-hyon Many outside observers predict that the Chinese economy this year would easily grow by more than 8 percent. But the Chinese...
By Ian Bowers The force structure of any navy is not only a reflection of a state's strategic and operational context but also its...
By Troy Stangarone Earlier this month, leaders of the Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, better known as Quad, comprising the United...