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[Trudy Rubin] What Biden needs to handle China

Dec 21, 2020

As President Donald Trump continues to spew lies about “election fraud” and attack democratic institutions, he is handing China a huge Christmas gift. Trump touts his hardZ-line tack toward Beijing ...
[Digital Simplicity] What happens to users when Google suffers massive outage?

Dec 19, 2020

A host of Google services including YouTube and Gmail were down for about an hour on Monday, leading to the trending hashtag “#YouTubeDOWN.” For those who rely heavily on Google’s productivity servic...
[Robert J. Fouser] South Korea pulls through 2020

Dec 18, 2020

The year 2020 has been a very cruel one, as the COVID-19 pandemic has swept the globe. As of mid-December, 74 million cases of COVID-19 have been reported and 1.65 million people have died from the d...
[Kim Myong-sik] 21st National Assembly, Behemoth of the 21st century

Dec 17, 2020

South Korea’s 21st term of the National Assembly is the Behemoth of the 21st century -- it can do anything, bad things mostly. The Book of Job in the Old Testament describes it: “When the river rage...
[Cass R. Sunstein] Undoing Trump‘s last-minute regulations

Dec 17, 2020

Donald Trump’s administration is doing an extraordinary amount of “midnight rule-making” -- issuing regulations at the very end of the president’s four-year term. This will cause real trouble for the...
[Josef Joffe] Who will succeed Merkel?

Dec 16, 2020

German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union has ruled the 71-year-old Federal Republic for a total of 50 years. When she steps down next fall after 16 years in office, it is safe to ...
[Slawomir Sierakowski] Poland’s populist Catch-22

Dec 15, 2020

A half-billion people across the European Union have effectively been held hostage by United Poland, a tiny Polish political party that is largely unknown even among the country’s voters. At issue wa...
[Andreas Kluth] Letter from US expats to Yellen

Dec 14, 2020

Dear Dr. Yellen: Congratulations! You’re probably the next treasury secretary of the US. That’ll throw you into daunting policy cauldrons -- from financing America’s massive deficits to managing Chin...
[Andreas Kluth] Merkel’s deal with Hungary, Poland a compromise too far

Dec 14, 2020

Angela Merkel has done it again: She’s “merkeled.” In German, that neologism means to hedge, delay, dilute and fudge -- as the eponymous German chancellor is wont to do. There’s much to be said for t...
[Contribution] What is more important: Sending anti-North Korea leaflets or providing food and medical supplies for hungry children?

Dec 13, 2020

About 48 years ago, in 1972, the July 4th South-North Joint Communiqué came to force between the two Koreas during the Park Chung-hee administration. Both parties agreed not to slander each other. Ho...
[Serendipity] Got time? Keep records

Dec 12, 2020

Like many people living through this pandemic year, I suddenly found myself with time on my hands as events and meetings were scheduled, rescheduled and, in most cases, canceled altogether. Once the...
[Melvyn Krauss] Getting NATO back on track

Dec 11, 2020

US President-elect Joe Biden’s nomination of Lloyd Austin, a recently retired four-star general, as Secretary of Defense is a further welcome sign that America has come to its senses and will, after ...
[Lee Kyong-hee] Lessons in crisis leadership from Jipyeong-ri

Dec 10, 2020

Jipyeong-ri is a small, quiet village embraced by low mountains. The placid atmosphere of the humble village makes it hard to conceive the hellish combat that occurred there 70 years ago, engraving i...
[Ferdinando Giugliano] Spain is headed in wrong direction

Dec 10, 2020

At the end of a terrible 2020, Pedro Sanchez has something to celebrate. Spain’s prime minister has succeeded in passing the country’s first full-year budget since 2016 even though he presides over a...
[Kim Seong-kon] Driving under the influence in Korea

Dec 9, 2020

Recently in Seoul, a Taiwanese student tragically died of a traffic accident caused by a drunk driver, while she was crossing the street during the “Walk” signal. It was heartbreaking to think about ...