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[Christopher Balding] Bad jobs data could bite China

China has long been criticized both for its obsession with GDP statistics and their quality: Pressuring cadres to meet growth targets has encouraged a risky buildup of debt and, at times, the outrigh...

Feb 21, 2019
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[Ruti Teitel] Should America ever apologize?

Earlier this month, academics at the American University in Cairo declared no confidence in the institution’s president, following his decision to grant US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo an uncontest...

Feb 21, 2019
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[Michael Schuman] Why US and China can’t make a deal

Optimism that the US and China can reach a trade deal is rising, with another round of intensive negotiations in Washington this week. What buoyant investors are ignoring, however, is that the talks ...

Feb 21, 2019
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[Noah Feldman] Huawei and 5G: A case study in the future of free trade

President Donald Trump is reportedly close to issuing an executive order that would ban Chinese companies like Huawei Technologies Co. from building 5G wireless networks in the US. The significance o...

Feb 21, 2019
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[Anjani Trivedi] Buffett’s China ride is losing power with investors

It’s backed by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, buoyed by China’s green energy policies and has a track record as a pioneer in the world’s largest car market. Surely, BYD has all the ingredients ...

Feb 21, 2019
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[Kim Hoo-ran] Gwangju deniers damage democracy

In Gwangju for the first time a few years ago, I walked down Geumnanro, the site of violent clashes between Gwangju locals and troops enforcing martial law on May 18, 1980. Events were being held on ...

Feb 20, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Even Trump can’t drive Europe into Russia’s arms

As the US demands more from Europe and castigates it ever more stridently, it’s increasingly clear that Russia is missing a historic opportunity. If President Vladimir Putin hadn’t made Russia an unr...

Feb 20, 2019
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[Tyler Cowen] Seven lessons about blackmail

Every now and then, a few apparently random news events come together and influence how you see the world. My most recent lesson is that blackmail and blackmail risk are a lot more common than I had ...

Feb 20, 2019
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[Timothy L. O’Brien] In Trump’s world, he never loses

Hanging on a wall behind the omelet bar at President Donald Trump’s golf club in West Palm Beach, Florida -- where the commander in chief apparently stopped for a bite on Saturday after declaring a n...

Feb 20, 2019
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[Andy Mukherjee] Aging Singapore tries to avoid Japan trap

Japan has aged; Singapore is aging. Japan’s workforce is shrinking; Singapore’s has plateaued. Japan’s homogeneous society has struggled with immigration; Singapore’s island culture has been welcomin...

Feb 20, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Be confident and overcome inferiority complex

Watching popular American sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” Korean viewers could be appalled at the character Sheldon making fun of Howard for holding only a master’s degree from MIT. In the show, Sheld...

Feb 19, 2019
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[James Stavridis] How US can escape Graveyard of Empires

The problems in Afghanistan often feel intractable, like a knot of countless ropes bound together. Every time a strand is pulled, another part of the knot tightens up. Currently, the Taliban refuse t...

Feb 19, 2019
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[Lee Jae-min] It’s a good club to join, but the question is membership fee

Still a bit of a tongue twister even to experts: hard to pronounce and difficult to remember. Many tend to get the sequence of the letters wrong. The CPTPP stands for the Comprehensive and Progressiv...

Feb 19, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Artificial Intelligence is getting good at fake news

Algorithms have long been able to produce basic news stories from press releases or sets of financial data; that’s not much of a threat to most humans in the news business. Now, however, artificial i...

Feb 19, 2019
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[Hal Brands] Are Russia and China getting closer? US spy chiefs think so

Substance often runs a distant second to drama in the age of Donald Trump. So it was when America’s intelligence chiefs visited Capitol Hill recently to deliver their agencies’ annual worldwide threa...

Feb 19, 2019
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