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[Rajan Menon] The future of Libya
The fighting in Libya has reached a stalemate: Moammar Gadhafi has proved far more resilient than his adversaries anticipated, and he has also exposed the limits of what can be accomplished by war from afar. If NATO decides to end the standoff by attacking his forces with greater ferocity, there’s only one nation (you guessed it) with the requisite power.This much is evident. What remains unclear
Viewpoints April 21, 2011
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[Wei Jingsheng] A return to the Cultural Revolution?
WASHINGTON ― On April 3, the Chinese Communist authorities secretly detained the well-known artist Ai Weiwei. Neither his family nor friends were notified of what happened to him, why he was seized or where he was. Like everyone else, they have now learned from the Xinhua News Agency that he is under investigation for “economic crimes.”Since this happened to one of China’s most well-known cultural
Viewpoints April 21, 2011
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[Trudy Rubin] Dealing with Pakistan: A few suggestions
The unhappy marriage of convenience between the United States and Pakistan survived another squabble last week.Pakistan threatened to halt CIA drone strikes against militants in its tribal areas, one of the only effective U.S. tools for hitting al-Qaeda and Taliban operatives based there. Pakistani officials then leaked their demand that Washington sharply reduce the number of CIA and special-forc
Viewpoints April 21, 2011
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[Laurence Kotlikoff] Obama might trade parties with Paul Ryan
We all know that Democrats want to spend more on people and Republicans want to tax people less. But giving someone an extra dollar is no different than taking a dollar less from that person; raising spending is the same as cutting taxes, and cutting taxes is the same as raising spending.Gee, maybe Democrats are closet Republicans, and Republicans are closet Democrats.Of course some spending isn’t
Viewpoints April 21, 2011
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[Mohamed A. El-Erian] How risky is the global economy?
NEWPORT BEACH ― Three years after the global financial crisis, the global economy remains a confusing place ― and for good reasons.Should we draw comfort from gradual healing in advanced countries and solid growth in emerging economies? Or should we seek refuge against high oil prices, geopolitical shocks in the Middle East, and continued nuclear uncertainties in Japan, the world’s third largest e
Viewpoints April 21, 2011
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[Nouriel Roubini] China’s growth strategy is a bad bet
LONDON ― I recently took two trips to China just as the government launched its 12th Five-Year Plan to rebalance the country’s long-term growth model. My visits deepened my view that there is a potentially destabilizing contradiction between China’s short- and medium-term economic performance.China’s economy is overheating now, but, over time, its current overinvestment will prove deflationary bot
Viewpoints April 20, 2011
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[Aryeh Neier] Goldstone reversal on the Gaza war
NEW YORK ― Justice Richard Goldstone was condemned by many apologists for Israel’s human-rights record for his conclusion that Israel intentionally targeted Palestinian civilians as a matter of policy during the 2008-09 Gaza war. Goldstone’s United Nations-backed report accused both Israelis and Palestinians of war crimes, and called on both sides to investigate, prosecute, and punish their own pe
Viewpoints April 20, 2011
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Coping with power shortages for this summer
The government has set down a policy outline for overcoming the power shortage this summer, which will be inevitable due to the crisis at Tokyo Electric Power Co.’s Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. Under the outline, the government will invoke a relevant law, but there will be no planned rolling outages. Efforts to save power on the part of enterprises and households will be crucial.It is esti
Viewpoints April 19, 2011
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In Peru, two weak choices for next presidency
Peru’s political system has been ailing for decades. Corruption, violence and deep economic inequalities have left it weakened. Now, the first round of voting in the presidential race, which took place Sunday, threatens to leave the country in critical condition.From a field of five candidates, two emerged as front-runners likely to move on to a runoff election June 5. Both appear wanting in exper
Viewpoints April 19, 2011
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[William Pesek] China may tell Geithner to get lost
Timothy Geithner says borrowing more from China to finance tax cuts for the most affluent Americans would be irresponsible.The Treasury secretary has it backward. The real question is whether Beijing is willing to double down on a nation whose balance sheet makes Italy look good. Holding $1.2 trillion of U.S. debt is a fast-growing risk to China.Traders have a theory about why the euro is reasonab
Viewpoints April 19, 2011
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[Albert R. Hunt] Brzezinski says Obama gets China, flunks Israel
Zbigniew Brzezinski is a fan of President Barack Obama’s foreign policy, with important caveats. He supports most of the policies of the past three months in the turbulent Middle East, thinks the president has improved relations with the Europeans and the Russians, and believes the summit meeting in January between Obama and President Hu Jintao of China was a success. At the same time, he faults t
Viewpoints April 19, 2011
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[Kavi Chongkittavorn] Burma seeks to head ASEAN in 2014
Can Burma have its cake and eat it too? The answer rests with ASEAN. Right after the new civilian government was installed at the end of March in Naypyidaw, one of the first important tasks President Thein Sein did was to submit a letter to the ASEAN Secretariat stating Burma’s readiness to take up the grouping’s chair in 2014.At the 11th summit meeting in Vientiane in November 2004, under pressur
Viewpoints April 19, 2011
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[Jonathan Alter] Republican horror movie sequel hits theaters
Republicans jumped all over President Barack Obama’s budget speech at George Washington University as political, and they are absolutely right.It was the old Obama, the one who changed history in 2008, and he is back on his game, both thematically and tactically. The domestic debate now is much clearer and the takeaway for Republicans is out of a horror movie: Be afraid. Be very afraid.Obama was e
Viewpoints April 17, 2011
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[Heather Grabbe and Kori Udovicki] A roadmap to improve the lives of Roma in Europe
BRUSSELS ― The European Union, at long last, is taking a significant step to improve the lives of Europe’s millions of Roma. Rather than proposing a grand plan for EU-level action, the European Commission’s recently released “EU framework for national Roma integration strategies up to 2020” calls on each member state to write its own plan.This approach recognizes that the most pressing needs of th
Viewpoints April 17, 2011
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[Editorial] Disregard for security
Many of the 30 million customers of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation, or Nonghyup, suffered inconveniences for four days from Tuesday as the bank’s computer network broke down. It was the worst accident of its kind in Korea and fueled unease among the public over the security of online financial transactions as it came just several days after a serious hacking incident at Hyundai C
Editorial April 15, 2011
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