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[Shuli Ren] Unicorns are China’s innovative cavalry in trade war

A trade war can be fought on many fronts. As China breeds unicorns, they are being asked to stay at home rather than gallop overseas to enrich US investors. The US pipeline of Chinese initial publi...

Jul 10, 2018
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[Lee Jae-min] Saving us from a deluge of plastics

Use, separate and forget. These three words best describe plastic consumption in Korea. We use plastics a lot; we separate them meticulously; and then we forget. Korea uses plastic products heavily ...

Jul 10, 2018
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[Christopher Balding] Chinese savers won’t save China

Chinese are, in the popular imagination as well as some economic statistics, inveterate savers. According to the International Monetary Fund, the Chinese savings rate stood at an astonishing 46 perce...

Jul 10, 2018
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[Anjani Trivedi] China’s carmakers have a strong home front in this war

Donald Trump is trying to take on the single most globalized industry -- and China. But the world’s largest car market won’t budge. Beijing reduced duties on autos July 1, just before the impositio...

Jul 9, 2018
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[Jagannath Panda] New Southern Policy vis-a-vis Asia’s relationship balance

A highlight currently in Asia’s politics is the balance of relationship characters. Such balance has two extreme shades, namely, conflict and cooperation. The countries involved may have a range of i...

Jul 9, 2018
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[Heidi Crebo-Rediker] Chinese money should play by the rules

Global worries over trade wars, central bank rate hikes and geopolitical instability have hammered emerging-market debt in recent months. The fact is, over the past decade, many developing and low-in...

Jul 9, 2018
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[Pankaj Mishra] The kids have their say

The landslide victory of Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in Mexico’s presidential elections comes two months after the startling return to power in Malaysia of Mahathir Mohamad and, on a smaller scale, a...

Jul 9, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Robots are poised to make life grim for the working class

Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web, once declared: The spread of computers and the internet will put jobs in two categories. People who tell computers w...

Jul 9, 2018
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[Letter to the Editor] An American in Korea on 4th of July

While friends back home in the US set aside, for a day, their ever-expanding political differences to celebrate Independence Day, I am working in a high-rise above an Incheon business district with a...

Jul 8, 2018
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[James Chin] Sea change in Southeast Asia

It will be months before a verdict is reached in the corruption case brought against ex-Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak, who is accused of siphoning money from a former unit of the state-owned 1...

Jul 8, 2018
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[Jay Ambrose] Asian-Americans, Harvard and the future

Everybody knows how President Donald Trump asked for a Muslim ban in his campaign and at least some of us know his travel ban was no such thing. This country did, however, once have a Chinese ban –– ...

Jul 8, 2018
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[Christopher Balding] What Trump’s trade war is really about

As the trade war between the US and China escalates, with President Donald Trump imposing tariffs on $34 billion of Chinese imports, both sides are trying to portray themselves as victims of an uncon...

Jul 8, 2018
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[David Fickling] Beware the wrath of Chinese consumer

There’s a dog that hasn’t barked in the current round of trade tensions between the US and China: Despite the first direct tariffs coming into force Friday, the Chinese consumer has been on her best ...

Jul 8, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Tech giants are stronger than Paul McCartney

The European Parliament’s rejection of new copyright rules shows how difficult it is for regulators to compel the tech industry to pay for content that it uses for free. The parliament voted Thursd...

Jul 8, 2018
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[David Fickling] China’s trade weapons of mass destruction are missing

In the feverish run-up to conflict, it’s only natural the protagonists should be on the hunt for ways to justify their rash actions. In the months preceding the 2003 Iraq war, that came in the form...

Jul 6, 2018
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