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[Alden C. Mayfield] Asian and Euro-American economic crises

Jan 20, 2011

When the needles of greed, corruption, and cronyism popped the economic bubbles of Asia between 1997-98, much of the Western world gloated and wasted little time in criticizing irrational Asians for ...
[Doyle McManus] A nuclear Iran around the corner? Not so fast

Jan 20, 2011

After years of warning that an Iranian atomic bomb is right around the corner, Israeli officials now say Iran is at least four years away from deploying a nuclear weapon, maybe more. And Obama admini...
[Joel Brinkley] A popular uprising ... but then what?

Jan 20, 2011

Across much of the world, including most every Middle Eastern state, citizens and some national leaders are cheering the fall of President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisia’s longtime dictator. They a...
[Sylvester Eijffinger and Edin Mujagic] Qualifications for next ECB president

Jan 19, 2011

TILBURG, the Netherlands ― Two years ago, the leaders of the world’s central banks were considered heroes for their efforts in preventing financial crisis from turning into Great Depression II. Today...
Chinese jet fighter highlights need for dialogue

Jan 19, 2011

As far as stealth fighters are concerned, the Chinese prototype J-20 is perhaps too eye-attracting. On Dec. 22, 2010, photos of a taxiing test at the Chengdu Aircraft Design Institute of the fifth-ge...
[Eric Chaney] Euro’s Spanish showdown needs some ‘shock and awe’

Jan 19, 2011

The major battle in the fight for the survival of the euro will be fought on Spanish soil. Greece, Ireland and soon Portugal should be regarded as skirmishes. But Spain is different, in terms of scal...
[Hu Zhengyue] China strengthening ties with Asian nations

Jan 19, 2011

Last year saw good momentum in China’s strengthening ties with other Asian countries, as indicated by the frequent high-level exchanges and the expansion of two-way economic and trade links. The hig...
[Kenneth Lieberthal] Hu’s visit to readjust U.S. ties

Jan 19, 2011

President Hu Jintao’s state visit to the United States starting from Jan. 18 comes 14 months after President Barack Obama’s November 2009 visit to China. The intervening period has seen many problems...
[Trudy Rubin] Two attacks on political moderation

Jan 19, 2011

Three days before the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, a courageous Pakistani politician was shot dead by one of his guards. The circumstances of the two shootings, of course, were very...
[Editorial] Mercy killing

Jan 18, 2011

Children cry watching the TV news as a dozen piglets and their mother are shown being dumped into a hole in a farm in a foot and mouth disease-infected area. Internet users are saddened to read the d...
The use of yuan as international currency

Jan 18, 2011

The dazzling steps China has taken recently to expedite wider and better use of the yuan in cross-border trade and investment mark the country’s latest efforts to make its currency truly internationa...
A new culture of giving as a social movement

Jan 18, 2011

The year of the rabbit has just begun, but in the first few weeks of 2011, it has been the tiger gaining all the attention. In a spontaneous Tiger Mask movement, anonymous citizens throughout Japan h...
[Matthew Lynn] Portuguese bailout will make euro crisis worse

Jan 18, 2011

New year, new crisis. No sooner had Europe’s bond traders, politicians and central bankers gotten back to their desks than it was time to begin tussling over the fate of a small economy on the periph...
[Aryeh Neier] Is blasphemy a form of hate speech?

Jan 18, 2011

NEW YORK ― The assassination of Salman Taseer, the governor of Punjab province in Pakistan and an outspoken critic of religious extremism, has focused attention on his country’s draconian blasphemy l...
[Albert R. Hunt] GOP’s immigration stance bodes 2012 risk

Jan 18, 2011

Republicans, riding high in Washington and in most state capitals, are sitting on a time bomb: immigration. There’s a division coursing through the party; many of the Tea Party types and social cons...