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Mon, August 26, 2019 | 03:48

Mental health support doesn't advance guns-and-racism narrative

It's been more than a week since 31 people were murdered in two mass shootings within 24 hours. Despite numerous differences between the two horrific incidents in El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio, there was a crucial common denominator: hysterical public reaction.

2019-08-14 17:20

Korea and Japan: history wars

Nation-states, like four-year-olds, find it very hard to admit they are in the wrong and apologize. Adult intervention often helps, but all Japan and South Korea have is U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo (who tried and failed to mediate early this month in Bangkok). So the trade war between the two grows and festers.

2019-08-13 17:17

French language under assault from English

A long linguistic battle between French and English appears to have been settled; English won. Some 25 years after legislation to specifically defend use of the French language and protect its patrimony throughout the land, what's known as the Toubon law has become a quaint footnote.

2019-08-13 17:09

Social media? More like anti-social media

“I can't take it anymore! My social media friends are driving me batty!” “Ah, yes, you speak of a recent Pew Research Center survey that found '46% of adult social media users say they feel 'worn out by political posts and discussions they see on social media' - a share that 'has risen 9 percentage points since the summer of 2016, when the Center last asked this question.'”

2019-08-13 17:06

Security stands before trade

The idea of commerce and the idea of war and peace used to be inseparable. This was the central tenet of the Atlantic Charter signed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt and U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1941.

2019-08-12 17:24

Trump's manipulation of currency manipulation

The weaponization of currency has rarely ended well for the United States. Look no further than the unilateral 1971 decision of President Richard Nixon's administration to cancel the U.S. dollar's direct international convertibility to gold - a key element of the “Nixon Shock” that destabilized floating currencies and led to stagflation later in the decade. But that hasn't st...

2019-08-12 17:21

Find diplomatic solution

On Aug. 2, the Japanese government approved a bill to remove South Korea from the “whitelist” of countries enjoying preferential treatment in trade. The move is in total disregard to various reconciliatory moves from the South Korean government in recent months.

2019-08-11 18:12

Rebirth of competitiveness as competitive productivity (CP)

In times of a digital economy, intensifying East Asian/Sino-African relationships, leapfrogging but also stuttering economies, China's Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), and recent trade wars, new questions emerge about competitiveness. Who is winning, who is losing, and why?

2019-08-11 16:00

Woodstock at 50: What might have been

For various reasons, my graduating class has seen two milestone anniversaries sail by without a class reunion materializing. So, I can understand the disappointment of those on the slightly older end of the baby boom generation who have now seen the 50-year reunion celebration of the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival collapse.

2019-08-11 15:59

Emotional overload stymieing neighborly ties

It is said that human beings are 85 percent emotion and 15 percent logic. Surprisingly, this could be said for some nations too. Take Japan and South Korea for example - prosperous, high-tech powers, democracies and neighbors who share notable cultural and linguistic affinities. Both are allies of the U.S. and under its security umbrella. Yet they have mostly been at daggers ...

2019-08-10 09:08

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