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[Hal Brands] America’s secret weapon against China: Democracy

In his speech at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit over the weekend, Vice President Mike Pence put the clash of political values between the US and China at the heart of the clash of geopo...

Nov 22, 2018
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[Richard McGregor] Xi ignored private enterprise. Now he needs it

After more than five years in power, Xi Jinping has constructed a singular political persona: of a leader who places the Communist Party and its authority above all, on top of the state, the economy ...

Nov 22, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Germany doesn’t really want an EU army

For all the recent debate about creating a joint European army, Germany -- which has the second-biggest military in the European Union -- has little interest in setting up any kind of supranational f...

Nov 22, 2018
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[Kim Myong-sik] Surge of woman politicians in post-Park Korea

The end of the line for Park Geun-hye, the first and only woman president of South Korea, was feared to have a restraining effect on female politics for some time. Yet, new possibilities are seen for...

Nov 21, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Russia, Japan could finally end WWII

For decades, every sign Russia and Japan had made progress in talks on disputed territories and a post-World War II peace treaty turned out to be a false alarm. This time may be different: Both Russi...

Nov 21, 2018
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[Keenan Fagan] Is all going well on Korean Peninsula?

These days, all looks to be going well on the Korean Peninsula. Guard posts at the DMZ are being destroyed. Southern delegations and inspectors are going to the North to reopen offices and restore ra...

Nov 21, 2018
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[Julian Lee] Oil price now controlled by just three men

OPEC has lost what control of the oil market it ever had. The actions (or tweets) of three men -- Presidents Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman -- will determine the co...

Nov 21, 2018
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[Trudy Rubin] Will Trump and Xi avoid new Cold War?

The lines of Chinese tourists eager to visit Mao Zedong’s mausoleum in the center of Beijing’s Tiananmen Square start building at 7 a.m., and the wait can be three hours. The tourist shops along one ...

Nov 21, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] After the US midterm elections

The results of the recent midterm elections in the US were as predicted. Democrats have taken control of the House of Representatives, and Republicans retained control over the Senate. Democrats did ...

Nov 20, 2018
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[Andrew Polk] Why stimulus isn’t working in China

China’s vaunted economic managers aren’t infallible -- and they’re currently making a familiar mistake. They are trying to accomplish too many objectives simultaneously, many of which conflict with e...

Nov 20, 2018
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[Mihir Sharma] India can’t keep dodging trade deals

The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership, or RCEP, is not a “competitor” to the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- or, as it’s now known after adding the adjectives “comprehensive” and “progressive,...

Nov 20, 2018
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[Hal Brands] Environment and economy have become great-power pawns

In recent years, we have seen the renewal of a phenomenon that seemed to have passed into history with the end of the Cold War: fierce and potentially violent competition between the most powerful co...

Nov 20, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] Two inscrutable things in Korea for foreigners

Famous American poet William Carlos Williams was a pediatrician, so he thought of poetry as spiritual medicine that healed wounded souls. Interestingly enough, his contemporary, poet Wallace Stevens,...

Nov 20, 2018
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[Adam Minter] China’s rules on genes are too tight

China caused consternation in the tech world by walling off its internet, blocking foreign cloud-computing firms and forcing companies to store data locally if they want to operate on the mainland: M...

Nov 19, 2018
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[Trudy Rubin] China’s future weapon vs. America: Its growing middle class

They shop in malls and high-end supermarkets, buy condos by the seaside, attend wine tastings, vacation abroad, and push their kids to apply to Harvard. But they aren’t American suburbanites; they ar...

Nov 19, 2018
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