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[Nicole Brodeur] Wins for women in reproductive health care

Christmas is days away, but women got a couple of early presents -- one from local medical researchers and the other from the highest court in the US. I would say, “You shouldn’t have,” but here’s m...

Dec 17, 2018
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[Hal Brands] Chinese money has American universities in a bind

The arrest of Huawei’s chief financial officer, Meng Wanzhou, in Canada at the request of the US has further ramped up the tension and rancor between Washington and Beijing. It is also forcing a reck...

Dec 16, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Why Japan needs criminal-justice reform

Japan’s police recently threw the chairman of Nissan Motor Co. into a jail cell. Carlos Ghosn, a Brazilian-born executive with French and Lebanese citizenship, has been accused of falsifying financia...

Dec 16, 2018
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[David Fickling] Trade war’s too broad to turn on quick fixes

Count the straws in the wind, and it looks like the trade tensions between the US and China could be moving closer to a resolution. Don’t relax just yet, though. Beijing will delay by a decade some...

Dec 16, 2018
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[Kevin Rudd] Prospects for US-China relations in 2019

Throughout 2018, much of Asia has been shaken by the new and increasingly unpredictable dynamics in Sino-American relations. One year ago, US President Donald Trump returned from Beijing after his “s...

Dec 16, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Republicans failed to govern, but Democrats have a chance to succeed

Last week was a vivid demonstration of the inability of conservatives to deliver results after the great populist revolts in 2016 in Britain and America. And it showed that there is a golden opportun...

Dec 16, 2018
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[David Ignatius] For Taiwan, ‘status quo’ an increasingly delicate balancing act

If you like betting on embattled underdogs, President Tsai Ing-wen is worth a look. She’s tempting the wrath of her powerful neighbor in mainland China by arguing that Taiwan must maintain its own op...

Dec 13, 2018
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[Jeffrey D. Sachs] The war on Huawei

The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou is a dangerous move by US President Donald Trump’s administration in its intensifying conflict with China. If, as Mark Twain said, history often rhymes, our era ...

Dec 13, 2018
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[Rachel Marsden] Saudi influence on US foreign policy may be coming to an end

One of the US military-industrial complex’s longest-running foreign-war charades may soon come to an end despite objections from the White House. What’s puzzling is why President Donald Trump isn’t s...

Dec 13, 2018
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[Cass R Sunstein] When impeachment is mandatory

Suppose that within the next few months, it becomes clear that President Donald Trump has committed impeachable offenses. Does the House of Representatives have discretion to decide whether to impeac...

Dec 13, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] EU is playing Trump just like it played Brexiters

The Trump administration has pulled out all the stops to attack the European Union. Realizing its relative weakness, the EU hasn’t tried a muscular response. Instead, it has used the same tactic as i...

Dec 13, 2018
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[Eli Lake] Google’s China problem is America’s China problem

When employees first learned of the Google project known as Dragonfly, there was an internal uprising. It is easy to see why. The project, a search engine for China, would not only help a totalitari...

Dec 12, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] How Meng Wanzhou’s arrest might backfire

I am concerned by Canada’s recent arrest and possible extradition of Huawei Chief Financial Officer Meng Wanzhou. Meng was traveling in Canada, switching planes using a Chinese passport, when she was...

Dec 12, 2018
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[Kim Young-suck] Song of peace for 200th anniversary of ‘Silent Night, Holy Night’

On the Dec. 24, 1818, the Christmas carol “Silent Night, Holy Night” was created by two friends, Franz Xaver Gruber, an organist, and Rev. Joseph Mohr, a priest at the St. Nicholas Church in Oberndor...

Dec 12, 2018
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[Letter to the Editor] Feminism debate a step forward

I disagree with San E’s priorities in regards to feminism, but it seems like a good amount of his opposition is based on misinterpretation. His initial release of “Feminist” is him playing a charact...

Dec 12, 2018
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