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[Kim Myong-sik] Blue House and 2018 Ulsan mayoral election conspiracy

Feb 12, 2020

It is a crime story with enough sinister plots that Bong Joon-ho or even Martin Scorsese might be interested in making it into a movie. After several months of investigation, the South Korean prosec...
[Kim Seong-kon] 'Parasite' and 2020 Academy Awards

Feb 11, 2020

The news that the Korean film “Parasite” won Oscars in four categories, marking the first such wins in Korean film history, came as a pleasant surprise. Initially, people expected the celebrated Kor...
[Robert J. Fouser] The Trump show and North Korea

Feb 11, 2020

On the eve of his impeachment acquittal, President Donald Trump gave his annual State of the Union address. Instead of outlining proposals for the coming year, Trump turned the address into a rally f...
[Josep Borrell] Embracing Europe’s power

Feb 10, 2020

The geopolitical upheavals we are witnessing today underline the urgency with which the European Union must find its way in a world increasingly characterized by raw power politics. We Europeans must...
[Kevin Rudd] The coronavirus and Xi Jinping’s worldview

Feb 10, 2020

The coronavirus crisis represents the single biggest challenge for Xi Jinping since he became general secretary of the Communist Party of China in 2012. Individuals and families across China are livi...
[Trudy Rubin] Coronavirus death of Chinese whistleblower doctor should sober Beijing -- and us

Feb 9, 2020

The death of a young Chinese doctor who was silenced by authorities when he tried to warn about the outbreak of the coronavirus has lit up the country’s social media with outrage. By Friday, referen...
[Digital Simplicity] Surging appetite for analog experience on digital devices

Feb 7, 2020

Former Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously said at the iPhone launch event in 2007, “Who wants a stylus?” As of February, most iPads come with a stylus called the Apple Pencil. So, my quick answer to Jobs...
[Katherine A. Mason] International overreaction to the coronavirus is more dangerous than the virus itself

Feb 6, 2020

In April 2003, I was evacuated from my post teaching English in Guangzhou, China, at the height of the SARS epidemic. I was 23. While transiting in Chicago on my way home to Philadelphia, I called my...
[Anjani Trivedi] Virus forces the China car shutdown Beijing couldn’t

Feb 5, 2020

Fears that the coronavirus will ravage global supply chains rooted in China are spreading fast. For automakers, a hiatus from production in the world’s largest car market may force them to take some ...
[Lionel Laurent] The more Macron accomplishes, the more unpopular he becomes

Feb 5, 2020

“Remember when we all believed in Emmanuel Macron?” The question comes not from an angry trade unionist but a stand-up comedian in central Paris, facing a crowd of 30-something urbanites cut from the...
[Kim Seong-kon] “Star Wars”: In the name of peace and justice

Feb 4, 2020

When I saw “Star Wars: Episode IV, A New Hope,” the first of its series, in 1977, I was mesmerized. The fabulous galactic imagination of George Lucas led me on a true adventure through a vast, unknow...
[Andrew Gilmour] Preventing climate change is a human rights issue

Feb 4, 2020

Every society in the world is going to pay a price for global warming. But it’s the poorest countries and communities who will suffer the most from rising seas and burning lands -- and likely also fr...
[Clara Ferreira Marques] Thailand’s economy was already sickening

Feb 3, 2020

Outside China, Thailand has the largest number of patients infected by the novel coronavirus. Unfortunately, the export-reliant $500 billion economy, Southeast Asia’s second-largest, was sickly even ...
[David Fickling] Airlines aren’t about to succumb to coronavirus

Feb 3, 2020

Airlines are perpetually on the alert against crashes. That doesn’t mean the coronavirus epidemic will lead to any corporate disasters. The outbreak that originated in the Chinese city of Wuhan coul...
[Jan-Werner Mueller] Christian democracy or illiberal democracy?

Feb 2, 2020

For years, a conflict has been brewing between Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and the European People’s Party, the supranational organization of Christian Democratic and center-right parties i...