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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 open culture, democratic values and, yes, its sovereignty. Tsai is a petite woman, dressed in a plain black suit, who speaks the careful language of a Cornell-educated lawyer. But her low-key message of self-determination makes her something of a rebel in an Asia where China’s autocratic President Xi J

[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 increasingly recalls the period preceding 1914. As with Europe’s great powers back then, the United States, led by an administration intent on asserting America’s dominance over China, is pushing the world toward disaster.The context of the arrest matters enormously. The US requested that Canada arre

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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 standing up for the values on which he campaigned: withdrawal from useless foreign conflicts, and “America First.”The country at issue is Yemen. Why on earth would American taxpayers want their country to be involved in war there? Spoiler alert: There are no American interests in Yemen beyond the mili

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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 impeach him? Or does the constitution require it to do so?The simplest answer, and the best, is that the constitution requires the House to do so.To avoid political bias, let’s bracket all questions associated with President Trump, put current events to one side, and assume that some future president commi

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[Editorial] Not all new jobs are equal

Quality of job growth must be scrutinized; short-term jobs an illusion

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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 it did with Britain’s Brexiters.On Tuesday, the US ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, accused Europe of disregarding all the goodwill built up since the Marshall Plan and of frustrating US efforts to redress the trade imbalance.“What we have done for Europe since the end of World War II speaks for

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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 totalitarian regime censor the web, it could also track internet users. Thousands of Googlers eventually went public with their opposition, signing an open letter in protest of the project. Is it any surprise that a company that canceled a contract with the Pentagon to sort through drone video images would be qu

Dec 13, 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 taken into custody. If sent to the US, she would face charges of trying to defraud US financial institutions, each carrying a maximum sentence of 30 years. And because of potential flight risk, she is not an obvious candidate for bail. It is quite possible that her life as she knew it simply has end

Dec 13, 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 Oberndorf, Austria. The song was first performed by the church choir with the accompaniment of a guitar at the Christmas Eve mass at the St. Nicholas Church.In December 1914, not long after the outbreak of World War I, the allied forces of the French and English armies fought against German armies day after

Dec 13, 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 character, and much of his criticism is constructed as if those lyrics are a literal expression of his ideals. Instead, the track is a satire of men who pretend to be feminists and internally resent the movement. To me, it didn’t reveal much about his direct views on feminism. His subsequent releases “6.9 cm

Dec 13, 2018
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[Robert B. Reich] Tip for Tariff Man

“I am a Tariff Man,” Trump tweeted last week. “When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. ... We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs. MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN.”　I’m sorry, Mr. President, but you got this wrong. Tariffs are paid by American consumers. About half the $200 billion worth of Chinese goods you’ve already put tariffs on come almost exclusively from China, which means American consumers are taking a

Dec 13, 2018
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[Jayati Ghosh] Political roots of falling wage growth

It’s now official: Workers around the world are falling behind. The International Labor Organization’s latest Global Wage Report finds that, excluding China, real (inflation-adjusted) wages grew at an annual rate of just 1.1 percent in 2017, down from 1.8 percent in 2016. That is the slowest pace since 2008.In the advanced G20 economies, average real wages grew by a mere 0.4 percent in 2017, compared with 1.7 percent growth in 2015. While real wages were up by 0.7 percent in the United States (v

Dec 13, 2018
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[Editorial] Time for a real shift

Urgent need to depoliticize to save economy

Dec 13, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Huawei reveals real trade war with China

If you only scan the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that the US-China trade war is mainly about tariffs. After all, the president and trade-warrior-in-chief has called himself “Tariff Man.” And the tentative trade deal between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping was mainly about tariffs, especially on items like automobiles.　But the startling arrest in Canada of a Chinese telecom company executive should wake people up to the fact that there’s a second US-Ch

Dec 12, 2018
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[Lee Jae-min] Despite 20-year deregulation drive, businesses still concerned over red tape

After a roller coaster year on the trade front, we are now well-versed in other countries’ trade barriers restraining Korean products and businesses. We, however, tend to forget how we are viewed in the eyes of other nations. The latest observation came from the Nov. 30 joint statement by five chambers of commerce operating in Seoul: the American, European, British, French and German Chambers of Commerce. The joint statement was the first of its kind.What was mentioned in the statement is their

Dec 12, 2018
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