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[Stephen Mihm] Trump is risking an even greater chicken war

The staggering tariffs being levied on China will almost certainly test President Donald Trump’s claim that “trade wars are easy to win.” He might be right, but the president doesn’t seem to have con...

Oct 16, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] The importance of being moderate

When I studied at the State University of New York at Buffalo 40 years ago, my dissertation director, Leslie Fielder, taught me to always stay in the middle, avoiding both extremes. He used to tell m...

Oct 16, 2018
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[Lee Jae-min] Better late than never

We were hoping that 2018 was an aberration. That countries were just reacting emotionally. That things would return to normal come next year. Sadly, those hopes were just hopes and recent reports con...

Oct 16, 2018
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[Alan Bollard] A decade of disruption comes home to roost

Over the last decade, we have learned that a serious banking failure with risky balance sheets can feed into a major international financial crisis. That, in turn, is big enough to cause an economic ...

Oct 16, 2018
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[Editorial] Perilous peace

Reconciliation is needed but it must not be pursued at the cost of security

Oct 16, 2018
Editorial
[David Ignatius] Western spy agencies strike back

One of the most satisfying moments in any spy thriller is when the bad guy -- the black hat operative who has been killing and tormenting his adversaries -- does something dumb and gets caught. That’...

Oct 15, 2018
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[Edoardo Campanella] Is pensioner populism here to stay?

The right-wing populism that has emerged in many Western democracies in recent years could turn out to be much more than a blip on the political landscape. Beyond the Great Recession and the migratio...

Oct 15, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] Go ahead, forget the news

Most of all, I am disoriented by the speed at which major news events pass into the rearview mirror in contemporary America. Last week a man was alleged to have mailed in letters to the Pentagon co...

Oct 15, 2018
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[Peter Singer] Choosing best students

In different countries and for different reasons, university admissions policies are under attack. In a Boston courtroom on Oct. 15, a judge will begin hearing a lawsuit claiming that Harvard’s admis...

Oct 15, 2018
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[Adam Minter] Interpol debacle won’t just hurt China

The last message that now former Interpol President Meng Hongwei sent to his wife was an emoji depicting a knife. Soon after, he disappeared into China’s feared and opaque Ministry of Public Security...

Oct 15, 2018
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[Editorial] How to rebuild

Conservatives take multi-pronged approach to recoup strength

Oct 15, 2018
Editorial
[Choi Jung-wha] Person-to-person approach important in promoting Korea

My friend Bronwen Maddox, who is the director of the UK think tank Institute for Government, came to Korea with her daughter for two weeks this summer. I had thought that the trip was solely for the ...

Oct 14, 2018
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[Nisha Gopalan] China’s rental surge is a Gordian knot

Prepare for a crackdown on China’s overheated rental market. President Xi Jinping’s push to develop housing for lease was supposed to take the edge off soaring home prices. It hasn’t worked out that...

Oct 14, 2018
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[Badiuzzaman Bay] Bangladesh’s drift toward digital absolutism

On Sept. 19, Bangladesh passed the latest iteration of its digital policy. Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar, who proposed the Digital Security Bill 2018 to the pa...

Oct 14, 2018
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[Hal Brands] Nikki Haley’s resignation is another win for Trumpism

US ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley will become the latest senior foreign policy official to leave the Donald Trump administration, following former National Security Advisers Mike Flynn ...

Oct 14, 2018
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