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[Editorial] Resources development

EditorialMay 15, 2020

Moon government takes right step toward reactivating long-abandoned projects
[Andreas Kluth] EU entering constitutional crisis

ViewpointsMay 14, 2020

You might have been under the impression that the European Union has quite enough problems to manage. For one thing, there’s a pandemic going on, causing a recession and a debt crisis that might blow...
[Therese Raphael] Boris Johnson’s reopening strategy confuses Britain

ViewpointsMay 14, 2020

Boris Johnson’s much-anticipated address to the nation Sunday night left many feeling unsatisfied, and others infuriated. For a political team that has often used pithy slogans to devastating effect,...
[Editorial] Uncover truth

EditorialMay 14, 2020

Accounting suspicions hit group for victims of Japan’s wartime sex slavery
[David Ignatius] Russia’s scavenger diplomacy

ViewpointsMay 13, 2020

While most of the world has been on lockdown from the novel coronavirus, the wars and political machinations of the Middle East have continued. Amid this turmoil, Russia appears to be making steady p...
[Kim Seong-kon] Be grateful and modest in these challenging times

ViewpointsMay 13, 2020

Amid the ever-widening spread of the novel coronavirus, we realize things that we normally would not. For example, we realize we should be grateful to doctors, nurses and health care workers who are ...
[Editorial] Mounting deficits

EditorialMay 13, 2020

Moon government needs to pay heed to warnings about excessive fiscal expansion
[Alex Soohoon Lee] Imagining a South Korea-US-ASEAN tripartite partnership

ViewpointsMay 12, 2020

The world highlighted the success of the Republic of Korea in dealing with COVID-19, and President Moon Jae-in recently shared South Korea’s strategy with leaders from the Association of Southeast As...
[Trudy Rubin] Trump’s virus blame game can’t disguise failures

ViewpointsMay 12, 2020

For critical weeks in February and early March President Donald Trump claimed COVID-19 would magically disappear by itself or with warmer weather. That didn’t work. So, with the death toll at more t...
[Noah Smith] US states must maintain lockdowns

ViewpointsMay 12, 2020

Many states in the US are racing to reopen their economies before measures such as testing, contact tracing and full-time mask-wearing are in place. But one of biggest economic effects of a hasty end...
[Editorial] Beware laxity

EditorialMay 12, 2020

Club-related infections serious; people must keep guard on virus
[Pankaj Mishra] The phony war on the coronavirus

ViewpointsMay 11, 2020

Governments around the world say they’re engaged in a war against the coronavirus. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi invoked the legend of the Mahabharata, fought over 18 days, as he declared, with...
[Arvind Subramanian] The threat of enfeebled great powers

ViewpointsMay 11, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis augurs three watersheds: the end of Europe’s integration project, the end of a united, functional America, and the end of the implicit social compact between the Chinese state and...
[Editorial] Successful presidency

EditorialMay 11, 2020

Moon needs to translate political capital into more flexible, practical policy
[Robert J. Fouser] Learning from Korea’s response to COVID-19

ViewpointsMay 8, 2020

The first week of May in South Korea saw the nation come to life as fears of COVID-19 subsided. People took advantage of a series of holidays to go out and enjoy the spring weather. On May 6th, the ...