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[David Fickling] Beyond Meat faces ancient rival in China -- Tofu

Nov 25, 2020

You wouldn’t try to sell coal to Newcastle. So how would you rate your chances of peddling meat substitutes to the country that invented tofu? Beyond Meat Inc., the US maker of plant-based burgers a...
[Kim Seong-kon] Why are Koreans at the MAGA March?

Nov 25, 2020

While US President Donald Trump has not yet officially conceded his election loss, approximately 10,000 Trump supporters recently gathered at One Freedom Plaza in Washington, DC for the “Million MAGA...
[Richard A. Clarke] Terrorist threat to US still lurks

Nov 24, 2020

A twisty, narrow way in the cramped heart of Vienna’s oldest quarter, a busy street in an upscale neighborhood of Tehran and remote woods in Nigeria seem unlikely to share a theme or have relevance f...
[Arvind Subramanian] America should rewrite the China trade contract

Nov 24, 2020

Once US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration has made the relatively easy decisions to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, remain in the World Health Organization, and attempt to reboot the Wor...
[Ana Palacio] America, heal thyself and look forward

Nov 23, 2020

In 1998, then-US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright famously defined the United States as “the indispensable nation,” declaring that, “We stand tall and we see further than other countries into th...
[J. Bradford DeLong] The siren song of austerity

Nov 23, 2020

Ten years and ten months ago, US President Barack Obama announced in his 2010 State of the Union address that it was time for austerity. “Families across the country are tightening their belts and ma...
[Digital Simplicity] Think twice before you sign up for ‘free’ digital service

Nov 21, 2020

Last week, Google announced it would change its storage policy for Google Photos, which is now being used by more than 1 billion people across the globe. Simply put, it will end its free unlimited ph...
[Robert J. Fouser] Korean American women storm the House

Nov 20, 2020

The recent US election produced a mixed result. As expected, Joe Biden won the presidency, thus adding Donald Trump’s name to the list of defeated presidents. Down-ballot elections for the Senate, Ho...
[Max Nisen] A giant leap against pandemics

Nov 19, 2020

The world now seems likely to have at least two effective vaccines against COVID-19 with Monday’s announcement of positive early data from Moderna Therapeutics’s 30,000-person clinical trial. The res...
[Kim Myong-sik] 72 years from Rhee Syng-man to Moon Jae-in

Nov 19, 2020

Confusion in the US presidential election passed two weeks since the Nov. 3 voting with Donald Trump still refusing to accept Joe Biden’s victory despite the final electoral votes of 232 and 306. Kor...
[David Fickling] The might-is-right trade era

Nov 18, 2020

If you wanted a demonstration of how the world’s largest free trade area is likely to fall short of expectations, you could do worse than look at the customs sheds at Shanghai’s Pudong airport. As f...
[Kim Seong-kon] What lies ahead us in the Biden era?

Nov 18, 2020

Recently, US President-elect Joseph Biden announced, “I’m telling world leaders that America is back.” In response, world leaders applauded his message, saying, “Welcome back, America.” As America is...
[Slawomir Sierakowski] Trump’s departure puts mini-Trumps in the wilderness

Nov 17, 2020

Joe Biden’s election as president of the United States has seriously weakened authoritarian and populist governments around the world. For independent global powers like Russia, Brazil and Turkey, Do...
[Andreas Kluth] Inevitable legacy of COVID pandemic

Nov 17, 2020

“So when our Sickness, and our Poverty Had greater wants than we could well supply; Strict Orders did but more enrage our grief, And hinder in accomplishing relief.” That’s how the British poet Geor...
[Kent Harrington] America’s alliances after Trump

Nov 16, 2020

America’s allies should be forgiven if they are confused about where American foreign policy is headed. Who isn’t, given the go-it-alone recklessness of Donald Trump’s presidency? Over the past three...