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[Daniel Moss] Aging Japan wants automation, not immigration

Japan’s next boom may be at hand, driven by the very thing that is supposed to be bad for its economy. Japan’s aging and shrinking population has been partly blamed for the on-again, off-again natur...

Aug 24, 2017
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[Noah Smith] Higher minimum wages will give high tech a boost

David Neumark, an economist at the University of California-Irvine, could safely be called a minimum-wage skeptic. Neumark has written a number of papers on the topic, all of which have found that mi...

Aug 24, 2017
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[Editorial] Unilateral denuclearization

President Moon Jae-in stressed the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the improvement of inter-Korean relations during policy briefings of the Foreign and Unification Ministries on Wednesda...

Aug 24, 2017
Editorial
[Brad Taylor] How to beat North Korea at nuclear blackmail

“Strategic patience” is out as the US approach to North Korea, and “strategic accountability” is the new term of art. That’s according to an op-ed article by Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Sec...

Aug 23, 2017
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[Ana Palacio] Guardian of liberal world order

The global financial crisis, which began 10 years ago this month, showed that the Western-led rules-based international order’s long-term survival is not inevitable. It is often assumed that if and w...

Aug 23, 2017
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[San Diego Union-Tribune] Why Iran nuclear deal is still historic challenge for Trump

In July 2015, The San Diego Union-Tribune Editorial Board called the agreement that the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the European Union had just reached with Iran a “his...

Aug 23, 2017
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[Doyle McManus] Is there anyone left willing to defend Trump?

When a van plowed into pedestrians in Barcelona last week, President Trump didn’t wait for investigators to determine who the attackers were. Within minutes of the first reports, he tweeted: “The Uni...

Aug 23, 2017
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[Bloomberg] The US Navy’s deadly collision course

The circumstances of the crash of the USS John S. McCain near Singapore, which killed at least one US sailor and has left nine missing, remain unclear pending a Navy investigation. The bigger picture...

Aug 23, 2017
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[Lee Joo-hee] Moon needs courage to be hated

It is literally impossible to please everyone, yet we constantly make the mistake of believing one should, or can. Imagine trying to please 51,744,948 people. That is what President Moon Jae-in set ...

Aug 23, 2017
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[Editorial] Golden rule

The Constitution allows a spoils system in the judiciary, as it empowers the president to nominate the head of such powerful bodies as the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court. This has always been...

Aug 23, 2017
Editorial
Clean energy scores a small victory

Government scientists worried that their long-in-the-works assessment of climate change would be suppressed. The concern hardly rates as overwrought. Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Prote...

Aug 23, 2017
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[The San Diego Union-Tribune ] NAFTA negotiations a test for Trump’s troubled presidency

President Donald Trump faced such strong criticism for his unforgettably and unforgivably poor response to the horrific violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, that not even the firing of his chief st...

Aug 22, 2017
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[Kim Seong-kon] Declaration of independence from Confucianism

Recently, I read the controversial book “Confucius Must Die for This Nation to Live” by Professor Kim Kyung-il. The book is a de-facto declaration of independence from Confucianism, which has been th...

Aug 22, 2017
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[Caroline Freund] US needs China trade deals, not ‘remedies’

China is the largest market for General Motors, but there is no GM China. Instead, there is SAIC-GM, a joint venture between China’s largest state-owned auto company and GM. All auto companies opera...

Aug 22, 2017
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[John Yoo] The new weapons we need

With threats, bribes, diplomacy and sanctions, American presidents of both parties have sought for 25 years to try to halt, or at least slow, North Korea’s quest for a nuclear arsenal -- to no avail....

Aug 22, 2017
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