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[Chon Shi-yong] True test still ahead for Moon’s foreign policy initiatives

President Moon Jae-in is as confident as ever about his mediating role in denuclearization negotiations between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. He reaffirmed that conf...

May 1, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Spiritual exiles “against the grain”

What is the role of an intellectual or a writer in a turbulent society? In his monumental book, “Representations of the Intellectual,” Edward W. Said eloquently illustrates what it means to be an int...

Apr 30, 2019
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[Lee Jae-min] National Assembly failed to break old habits

Due process, mutual respect and civil debates. When do we get to see them in our parliament? Or, rather, will we ever see them? That question has echoed through the nation for the past five days. Th...

Apr 30, 2019
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[Lee Sung-yoon] Support - don’t suppress - the North Korean resistance

North Korea is history’s most perfected totalitarian state. Ruled by a deified dynastic dictatorship whose record of crimes against humanity is unparalleled, according to the UN Commissioner on Human...

Apr 30, 2019
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[Editorial] Politicized labor disputes

Automaker unions threaten strikes; domestic car industry mired in the doldrums

Apr 30, 2019
Editorial
[Akira Iriye] Japan’s global emperor exits the stage

Japan’s Emperor Akihito will abdicate on Tuesday, having sat on the Chrysanthemum Throne since 1989. At the age of 85, Akihito seemingly wishes to live in quiet retirement with Empress Michiko, his w...

Apr 29, 2019
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[Andrew Sheng] Existential crisis of Pax Americana

Last year, American historian Walter Russell Mead identified the following traits of the current American and global discomfort: “ineffective politicians, frequent scandals, racial backsliding, polar...

Apr 29, 2019
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[Julian Lee] Dirty Russian oil has made fragile market worse

President Donald Trump wants to strangle the Iranian economy and keep gas prices low for American drivers. The discovery that Russia has been exporting contaminated crude oil means any hopes that he ...

Apr 29, 2019
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[Komal Sri-Kumar] Low inflation is wrongly boosting markets

It was only a few months ago that the US Federal Reserve was intent on continuing to increase interest rates. But now, some policymakers are even hinting that the next move may be a rate cut, and the...

Apr 29, 2019
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[Editorial] Contracting economy

Misguided policy should be redressed to encourage companies to invest at home

Apr 29, 2019
Editorial
[Jeffrey Frankel] Moore problems for the Federal Reserve?

One of US President Donald Trump’s two intended nominees to fill vacancies on the US Federal Reserve Board of Governors -- Herman Cain -- has now withdrawn. Trump’s other potential pick, Stephen Moor...

Apr 28, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Biden is the best candidate to beat Trump

Joe Biden’s limitations as a presidential candidate are so obvious that they’re almost a litany: He’s too old, too white, too male, too touchy-feely, too loquacious. But he has one huge plus: He may ...

Apr 28, 2019
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[Alberto Gallo] Central banks have broken capitalism

It has been a decade since the Federal Reserve and other central banks began cutting interest rates to zero -- or even below -- and injecting unprecedented amounts of cash into the global financial s...

Apr 28, 2019
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[Mary Fitzgerald] America’s dark-money bid for Europe’s soul

Russian efforts to influence European elections have received plenty of media attention. But the same cannot be said of interference by conservative Christian groups based in the United States, some ...

Apr 28, 2019
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[Editorial] No end in sight

Kim-Putin talks, stalled inter-Korean relations indicate hard work ahead for NK denuclearization

Apr 28, 2019
Editorial

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