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Wed, April 14, 2021 | 23:48

Emboldened Putin becomes 'president for life'

President Vladimir Putin signed a new law last week that could keep him in power till 2036, potentially alongside China's Xi Jinping. In other words, Russia's foreign policy is becoming dangerously emboldened again.

2021-04-14 17:16

Is war over Taiwan imminent?

Since the beginning of the “freefall” of U.S.-China relations during the global COVID-19 pandemic last year, tension over the Taiwan Strait has been escalating, as attested by the constant military posturing, political signaling and coercive policies of the mainland. As the calls for “unification by force” worsen at an unprecedented pace in mainland China, the concern over th...

2021-04-14 17:05

Promoting mutual prosperity through legislative cooperation with Indonesia

An online seminar between Korea and Indonesia was held on Feb. 5 and March 25 at the Ministry of Government Legislation of the Republic of Korea, with about 60 public officials of the Cabinet Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia in attendance. It was a seminar where legislative officers of our ministry, who are in charge of statutory examination, shared Korea's legal syst...

2021-04-14 11:01

How to prepare for Korea-US summit?

The Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, D.C. jointly hosted a webinar on April 1 on a topic we will have to face in the not too distant future: “How Korea and the Korean business community must prepare for the Korea-U.S. Summit.” As I sat through the seminar as a panelist, many thoughts crossed my ...

2021-04-13 16:52

Bellwether of China's elite

The Communist Party of China will officially announce whether General Secretary Xi Jinping will serve his third five-year term at the 20th Party Congress in the fall of next year. The United States, which is in “extreme competition” with China (according to Biden), is keenly interested in whether Xi will manage to maintain his long-term grip on power. If Xi continues to hold ...

2021-04-13 16:45

Europe's complacency trap

LONDON - COVID-19 has wounded almost every developed country, but the truth is that living standards in many of them had been stagnating or declining for years. Many metrics highlight this trend, but perhaps the most telling comes from the OECD, which reports a 4% decline in household median net wealth across its member countries since 2010.

2021-04-13 16:42

Democrats deliver

“A great democracy has got to be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy,” is a prescient excerpt from the “New Nationalism Speech” by Theodore Roosevelt, the 26th President of the United States.

2021-04-12 17:15

ISIS storm brewing on Mozambique's coast

Storm clouds are gathering along Mozambique's northern coast. Islamic State militants launched a coordinated and deadly assault on the town of Palma, nearby a multi-billion dollar natural gas complex being built by France's Total energy. The recent attack underscores escalating violence against civilians and foreign workers and has triggered insecurity leading to considerable...

2021-04-12 17:10

Perfect storm of threats against human race

The human race is facing the biggest threat from an unprecedented self-destructive force created by people. Since last year, a group of world-renowned scientists called the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has set the doomsday clock at only 100 seconds to midnight, which denotes the biblical moment of self-destruction. This is the worst level seen over the last seven decades...

2021-04-11 17:59

What's in a name?

In times like these, with all the concerns and sometimes anger expressed over cultural appropriation, I find it odd that more and more Koreans adopt “Western” or “English” names. While national borders and cultural boundaries have been fluid throughout human history, I think one's name is closely connected with personal identity.

2021-04-11 17:47

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