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[Angela Zhang] In China, behave or face a campaign

Jan 11, 2021

With the debacle of Ant Group’s initial public offering, we’ve witnessed a flurry of legislative and enforcement activities aimed at tightening antitrust regulation within the Chinese tech sector. Th...
[Digital Simplicity] A turning point for news media in Korea

Jan 9, 2021

In recent years, newspapers in South Korea have struggled to stay relevant for mainstream readers, many of whom consume news on major portals instead of media websites. The dominance of portals in t...
[Shuli Ren] Why China Is sentencing a tycoon to death

Jan 8, 2021

The bigamy conviction got a lot of the attention but Lai Xiaomin received a death sentence on Tuesday over a much more serious issue troubling China. Lai oversaw China Huarong Asset Management from ...
[Daniel Moss] South Korea needs more babies and immigrants

Jan 7, 2021

South Korea greeted the new year by recording its first annual population decline. Unfortunately, the go-to solutions are meeting some practical challenges in the COVID-19 era. Headcount dwindled sl...
[Lee Kyong-hee] ’Winter Scene’ sparked cultural exchanges

Jan 7, 2021

During the subdued Christmas and New Year holiday period, a very special painting commanded a gallery of the National Museum of Korea shrouded in darkness. The museum made commendable efforts to arra...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Ant, Yukos and warning to rebel tycoons

Jan 6, 2021

In the thick of it, back in Moscow in 2003, it never seemed possible that the onslaught would go as far as it did. In the end, it took only months for Russian oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky to find ...
[Kim Seong-kon] Greeting 2021, the Year of the Ox

Jan 6, 2021

The year 2021 is the Year of the Ox. According to the Chinese horoscope, people born in the Year of the Ox have a strong sense of duty and responsibility. It states: “People born in the Ox year are r...
[Martin Schram] Which is Wannabe Working Class Party?

Jan 5, 2021

As America prepares to inaugurate Scranton Joe Biden as our 46th president, we interrupt Washington’s backslapping Democratic elites to inject a dose of realpolitik into a party that still calls itse...
[Sam Fazeli] How to stay ahead of a mutating coronavirus

Jan 5, 2021

Count 2020 as a lucky year. This may sound odd given that the world grappled with a pandemic that has killed close to 1.8 million people and crippled many countries’ economies. The “luck” relates to ...
[Lara Wodtke] Doing democracy during the pandemic

Jan 4, 2021

When COVID-19 emerged exactly one year ago, liberal democracy was in crisis. For the first time since 2001, there were more autocracies than democracies in the world. Right-wing populists were gainin...
[Joseph E. Stiglitz] How Biden can restore multilateralism unilaterally

Jan 4, 2021

There is so much to celebrate with the new year. The arrival of safe, effective COVID-19 vaccines means that there is light at the end of the pandemic tunnel (though the next few months will be horri...
[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea’s post-pandemic future

Jan 1, 2021

The world begins 2021 with hope amid continuing despair. The roll out of vaccines in wealthy countries offers hope that the COVID-19 pandemic will wind down as the year moves along. This hope contras...
[Kim Myong-sik] Yoon Seok-youl looms large in 2021 Korean politics

Dec 31, 2020

We are sadly sending off “Twenty-Twenty” and entering 2021 with very little hope for a better year. In the New Year, people will continue to live with the inconvenience of wearing face masks and in f...
[Kim Seong-kon] Reminiscing about 2020 with woe and remorse

Dec 30, 2020

Undoubtedly, history will remember 2020 as the Year of the Global Pandemic. For the first time since the Spanish flu hit the world in the early 20th century, a worldwide disease caused society to cha...
[Shuli Ren] China shows Ma what an activist can do

Dec 30, 2020

The rare activist moment at China’s central bank was too late and too crude. For years, when it came to innovative business ideas, Beijing’s stance has been to let them flourish -- there’s always ro...