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[Lee Hyuk] In celebration of 30th anniversary of ASEAN-Korea relations

It was in 1989 when the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and Korea established dialogue relations. This was a historic achievement for Korean diplomacy, as the establishment of ties with ASEAN ...

Mar 11, 2019
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[Elizabeth Drew] Will Trump win second term?

It seems that every time I write about Donald Trump’s presidency, I pronounce it to be in more trouble than ever. This time is no different: He and his presidency are indeed in more trouble than ever...

Mar 11, 2019
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[Lee Min-gyu] Seoul-Pyongyang Unification Olympics as sports diplomacy

Seoul was selected recently, along with Pyongyang, as a candidate city for the joint bid for the 2032 Summer Olympics. This may well be the first step toward realizing a “Unification Olympics” of pea...

Mar 11, 2019
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[Michael Schuman] History could doom US-China trade deal

Trade talks between the US and China seem to be hurtling toward a predictable conclusion -- the signing of a shallow deal that doesn’t solve the real issues dividing the world’s two largest economies...

Mar 10, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Erdogan sabotages Turkey’s progress by turning away from West

For a scary snapshot of what a “post-American” world looks like, consider the rupture that has been developing through three administrations in the US-Turkey relationship. Turkey has come to think it...

Mar 10, 2019
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[Hal Brands] Trump is right on Venezuela, but it may end badly

Donald Trump almost certainly doesn’t want to invade Venezuela. Despite ominous official statements about keeping all options on the table, a president who has repeatedly announced his intent to end ...

Mar 7, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Can Mueller report provide any resolution?

Robert Mueller’s final report should present Congress with a clean choice: Either the facts warrant impeachment of President Trump, or they don’t. That was the promise of Mueller’s appointment as spe...

Mar 7, 2019
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[Adam Minter] Social media crackdown China needs

There are roughly 337 million users on Weibo, the popular entertainment-oriented social media platform owned and operated by China’s Weibo Corp. Roughly one-third of those followers have shared or li...

Mar 6, 2019
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[Shuli Ren] China has a dirty little stimulus secret

Investors trying to gauge how much appetite China has for stimulus should ignore official targets and look at local government bond issues instead. Premier Li Keqiang set a 2019 GDP growth target o...

Mar 6, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] Cassandra’s prophecy and the Trojan Horse

It is well-known that Homer’s Iliad, that great masterpiece of Western literature, was inspired by the Trojan War. In Greek mythology, the war was ignited when the Trojan prince Paris eloped with Hel...

Mar 5, 2019
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[Lee Jae-min] Finally, a sub-1 birthrate -- What’s wrong with us?

Last week was all about Hanoi. But hidden in the stack of news reports from Hanoi was that South Korea broke a record again -- this time in the category of birthrate. In 2018 population data, releas...

Mar 5, 2019
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[Tobin Harshaw] North Korean economy growing more capitalist

What won the Cold War? Stipulating that the West did indeed “win,” there are a lot of answers to that question: Ronald Reagan’s “Tear down this wall”; Mikhail Gorbachev’s Glasnost; George F. Kennan’s...

Mar 4, 2019
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[Ted Gover] Trump protected American interests in Hanoi by walking away

Many pundits are describing the abbreviated second Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi that yielded no joint agreement as a catastrophic failure and embarrassment for President Trump, citing that his self-tout...

Mar 4, 2019
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[Jean Pisani-Ferry] The case for green realism

The Green New Deal promoted by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a fast-rising star in the US Congress, and others among her fellow Democrats, may trigger a welcome reset of the discussion on climate-change ...

Mar 3, 2019
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[Trudy Rubin] Limits to US president’s personal diplomacy

Here is the most glaring takeaway from the collapse of the North Korea summit in Hanoi: You can’t negotiate with a wily dictator as if he were a real-estate mogul in New York. President Donald Trump...

Mar 3, 2019
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