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[Harsha Kakar] Politicians in glass houses should not throw stones

A senior Indian National Congress politician, Veerappa Moily, seeking to counter comments of the country’s air force chief on the Rafale aircraft, termed him a “liar.” This was because the air force...

Jan 2, 2019
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[Christopher Balding] Beijing dithers as the economy declines

China’s annual economic policy summit has come and gone, leaving a wet lump of coal in place of stimulus hopes. Beijing will have to do better if it wants to steer the country to another year of robu...

Jan 2, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] 2019: Korea in the Year of the Pig

Traditionally, the Year of the Pig is regarded as auspicious because pigs symbolize good fortune. People believe that pigs have gentle personalities and an optimistic demeanor. Pigs are also known to...

Jan 1, 2019
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[Robert J. Fouser] Challenges facing South Korea in 2019

South Korea finds itself in an odd place as 2019 begins. Progress in inter-Korean detente slowed at the end of 2018 after three historic summit meetings between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean...

Jan 1, 2019
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[Mohamed A. El-Erian] Life is getting harder for central banks

For reasons largely outside its control, the Federal Reserve is now being widely blamed for fueling financial market instability and risking derailment of the US economy. This is quite a contrast fro...

Jan 1, 2019
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[Anne Stevenson-Yang] Trump’s China strategy isn’t working

The Trump administration’s willingness to push the Chinese harder on trade has struck a bilateral chord. Beijing is listening. So far, so good. Now the question is what the US wants to achieve. Answe...

Jan 1, 2019
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[Albert R. Hunt] No, Mr. Trump, the press is only the enemy of lies

President Donald Trump doesn’t read or study history, so he’s probably unfamiliar with the Alien and Sedition Acts. He’d love them. They were the infamous series of discredited measures promulgated b...

Jan 1, 2019
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[Gordon Brown] The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70

Seven decades after its adoption, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights remains a beacon of hope for the world, sending out an unequivocal message that an injustice anywhere is a threat to justic...

Dec 31, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Here’s hoping the US-North Korea dialogue continues in the new year

Here’s one New Year’s resolution that should be easy: The United States and North Korea should resume the diplomatic progress they began in 2018 toward peace and denuclearization. It’s a measure of ...

Dec 31, 2018
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[Walter Shapiro] My dream 2020 candidate -- someone to heal America’s wounds

As an alumnus of Newsweek and Time in their glory days, I sometimes can’t resist thinking like a news-magazine editor. Any news event -- the government shutdown, the withdrawal from Syria, the Brexit...

Dec 31, 2018
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[Andy Mukherjee] Half a billion millennial voters are face of Asia 2019

In the first half of 2019, a billion Asians will elect the next leaders of the region‘s two largest democracies. Half -- 400 million in India, and 79 million in Indonesia -- are from the millennial ...

Dec 31, 2018
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[Kurniawan Hari] At 24 years WTO faces more challenges

The World Trade Organization is to celebrate its 24th anniversary in January 2019. There is no better chance than today to assess the performance and outlook of the global organization. Such an eval...

Dec 31, 2018
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[Anjani Trivedi] Barra eyes China for GM’s rebirth

In April 2014, Mary Barra sat on Capitol Hill listening to accounts of families who’d lost a member while driving in a General Motors Chevrolet Cobalt that malfunctioned. Months earlier, she’d been h...

Dec 28, 2018
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[Justin Fendos] Emergence of #MeToo tribalism in politics

US partisan politics and the South Korean #MeToo movement shouldn’t have much in common. But if Koreans aren’t careful, the two are in danger of becoming similar, devoured by the pitfalls of tribalis...

Dec 28, 2018
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[David Ignatius] What Trump’s Syria decision means on front lines of fight against Islamic State group

The voice of Gen. Mazloum Abdi, the Kurdish commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces militia, is tight and controlled as he describes US President’s Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from the coun...

Dec 27, 2018
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