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Sat, April 17, 2021 | 10:20

A tale of two hegemons

The buzzwords of today's international politics, “the U.S.-China hegemonic competition,” refer to two superpowers that want to either defend or newly obtain the title of hegemon. Hegemons are the ones that build hegemony, and hegemony is a long surviving concept which existed more than 2000 years ago in the days of the Roman and Chinese empires.

2021-04-15 16:48

Crocodiles of Pyongyang

If your mother says she loves you, check it out. That's an old adage in journalism advising reporters to be skeptical. But should you “check it out” if a broker rescuing you from the crocodiles of the North Korean regime warns there are alligators or crocodiles in a river you are about to cross?

2021-04-15 16:44

Athletes knock legs from under global sports governance

Sports governance worldwide has had the legs knocked out from under it. Yet, national and international sports administrators are slow in realizing the magnitude of what has hit them. Tectonic plates underlying sports' guiding principle that sports and politics are unrelated have shifted, driven by a struggle against racism and a quest for human rights and social justice.

2021-04-15 16:34

Philip and queen: love story like no other

The first person I thought when I heard that Prince Philip had died was Elizabeth, a queen in the greater world but only and always a wife to the man who'd been by her side for longer than I've been alive.

2021-04-15 16:32

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

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