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[Emily de La Bruyere and Nathan Picarsic] China wants to dominate internet

For the past year, the US and China have been engaged in a wide-ranging trade war. Nominally, the dispute concerns intellectual property violations, forced technology transfers and other unfair pract...

Jan 23, 2019
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[Lionel Laurent] Make no mistake, Davos, fat cat backlash is coming

Ten years ago, the Davos conference asked the question: “What must industry do to prevent a broad social backlash?” The answer probably wasn’t “Double, triple or sextuple the wealth of the most promi...

Jan 23, 2019
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[Ferdinando Giugliano] Plenty of Uber drivers love their jobs too

The “gig economy” has become the cause celebre for people who think labor needs help from government in its struggle with capital. Politicians from the radical left and anti-establishment parties say...

Jan 23, 2019
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[Chun Sung-woo] Moon walled by confirmation bias

Confirmation bias seems to be stopping President Moon Jae-in from ending his reliance on his perspective and beliefs in favor of evidence and facts. The bias is a psychological term denoting a tende...

Jan 23, 2019
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[Editorial] Tax-led growth

Economic revitalization will be difficult without change of policy direction

Jan 23, 2019
Editorial
[Noah Smith] China’s plan to end US trade surplus is red herring

There has been an unexpected development in the US-China trade war. Chinese trade officials apparently offered a huge concession earlier this month: a promise to completely eliminate its trade surplu...

Jan 22, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Society that invites a Mona Lisa smile

Leonardo Da Vinci’s monumental painting “Mona Lisa” is one of the most widely discussed paintings of all time because of its subject’s ambiguous smile. People have argued that depending on the viewer...

Jan 22, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Europe has a China problem, too

The US push to “decouple” its economy from China’s is causing ripples in Europe. The Federation of German Industries, the most influential industrial lobby group, has proposed a vision for keeping Eu...

Jan 22, 2019
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[Tim Culpan] Whatever happened to ‘Don’t get in a car with strangers?’

On the morning of March 26, 2018, my colleague Yoolim Lee ordered a Grab ride in Singapore. Within hours, she was lying in hospital with a fractured vertebrae and a vertebral artery dissection. Her...

Jan 22, 2019
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[Lee Jae-min] No plan in sight for fine dust

Here we go again. Public concerns escalate, agencies issue advisories, and ominous news reports flood media outlets. And then we get one final piece of advice: Wear masks. That is pretty much it -- n...

Jan 22, 2019
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[Editorial] Fair probe

Prosecution ought to find the truth in the Sohn scandal

Jan 22, 2019
Editorial
[Aryeh Neier] Human-rights movement needs America

These are disheartening times for international human-rights advocates. Even those of us who have promoted the human-rights cause for decades, and experienced many setbacks along the way, are deeply ...

Jan 21, 2019
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[Ivo Daalder] Britain needs a Brexit do-over referendum to get out of this mess

Britain’s holiday from history was supposed to end this week. After three years of bitter debate, Prime Minister Theresa May hoped Parliament would back the agreement for Britain’s withdrawal from th...

Jan 21, 2019
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[Trudy Rubin] Are Trump’s gifts to Putin the work of a gullible admirer rather than a mark of collusion?

The news that the FBI opened an investigation in 2017 as to whether President Donald Trump was actually working for the Russians shouldn’t have come as a shocker. No public evidence has yet emerged...

Jan 21, 2019
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[Adam Minter] Tesla doesn’t need to sell cars in China to succeed there

When Elon Musk broke ground on Tesla’s Gigafactory in Shanghai earlier this month, he wasn’t just thinking about how many Teslas he’ll sell in China. He was thinking about how many he might be able t...

Jan 21, 2019
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