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Wed, August 17, 2022 | 13:55

Envisaging African green economy

As the global economy undergoes a fundamental transformation to decarbonize by 2050, the question for Africa is whether it can industrialize and rapidly develop without fossil fuels. The answer to that question is a resounding “yes,” provided that the international community can reach a new global compact on the emerging green economy.

2022-08-16 16:00

Beijing dragon blinks

Despite their huffing, puffing and threatening, regarding the short but symbolically important visit of U.S. Speaker of the House of Representatives Nancy Pelosi to what China deems a “renegade province,” Taiwan, the Beijing dragon blinked. Nancy Pelosi's landmark - if controversial - visit to Taiwan went forward, and then it was magically over in less than a day.

2022-08-14 16:22

The keys to living well

Comedian Carl Reiner was good at living well - and he lived well until the age of 98.

2022-08-14 16:14

Pelosi's Taiwan visit highlights need to reset global thinking

Can our world develop a collective mindset that allows it to stay calm even under extreme pressure? Anyone who tracked with growing alarm U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's trip through East Asia last week might well have asked themselves: but at what cost? The entourage of the U.S.' most accomplished domestic politician left behind few patches of peace and security and instea...

2022-08-11 16:15

America's China challenge

At this year's Aspen Security Forum (which I co-chair) in July, China's ambassador to the United States, Qin Gang, appealed for better understanding of his country. But there was consider-able debate among the assembled experts about China's objectives.

2022-08-11 16:05

To live better in the 'Capitalocene'

Europe was burnt last month. France kept setting new heat records. The United Kingdom issued its first-ever red warning for extreme heat, which impelled guards at Buckingham Palace wearing long sleeved red uniforms and bearskin hats to break their usual stoicism for sips of water.

2022-08-11 16:00

Trends and the necessity of nonproliferation education

Nuclear nonproliferation is a legacy of global governance during the Cold War. It began as an effort of the United States to prevent the spread of the nuclear weapons technology developed as part of the Manhattan Project. Initially, the U.S. attempted to contain the technology through monopoly and isolation until realizing that such plans were not tenable

2022-08-10 16:24

Lightning, sudden risk for hikers and campers

When the probability of an event occurring is very low or almost zero, in Korea we often say, “It's lower than the odds of being struck by lightning.” Your odds of being hit by lightning, of course, are fairly low in your life, but you should not let your guard down because a lightning strike could lead to deadly consequences. Every summer we often hear of accidents caused by...

2022-08-10 16:00

Time for Republicans to break from Trump

In the nearly 21 months since the last presidential election, millions of Americans have given the benefit of the doubt to former president Donald Trump as he unleashed a torrent of accusations that his defeat resulted from massive voter fraud, and in an honest process he'd have won a second term.

2022-08-07 16:00

End of contemporary history

I cannot recall a time during the past 75 years when there has been such a massive accumulation of major and minor shocks. The world today is dealing with intensifying climate change, a pandemic, major wars, surging inflation, disruptions to international trade and supply chains, and acute food and energy shortages.

2022-08-04 16:31

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