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Thu, May 26, 2022 | 19:27

What Shanghai lockdown tells us about China's future

After signaling that it was moving to a more nuanced COVID-19 policy, Shanghai - a city of 26 million - was pressured by the central government to lock down in late March, and has only just started to ease restrictions after almost one month. The official reason for this drastic policy shift is that citywide testing had revealed high infection rates. Yet one is left wondering...

2022-04-28 16:18

Singapore, reluctant US-China go-between, yet useful to both

Ever since my first meeting with Lee Kuan Yew a quarter of a century ago, Singapore has remained in my mind as a special place. By the time of the founding prime minister's passing at age 91 in 2015, that assessment was going global; even in Hong Kong circles, where desultory governance and economic factors, especially housing, seemed to inspire spasms of exodus, Singapore se...

2022-04-28 16:14

What are book bans really about? Fear

More years ago than I really care to count, the children's librarian in my little town in rural northwestern Connecticut, apparently tired of my endlessly renewing the same book over and over again, pressed a copy of “The White Mountains” by John Christopher into my eight-year-old hands.

2022-04-28 16:10

End 'imperial' presidency

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol has been promising to end the country's “imperial” presidency since he launched his presidential candidacy last year. After winning the March 9 election, he reaffirmed his pledge by announcing a plan to relocate the presidential office from Cheong Wa Dae to a new site in Yongsan, central Seoul.

2022-04-27 16:38

Rushing to wartime reality

The headline on The New York Times' dead-tree edition's front page reported this breaking news on April 20: “West Rushes to Give Ukraine Heavier Weapons.”

2022-04-27 16:28

What NATO's northern expansion means

While the likely outcome of Vladimir Putin's war against Ukraine remains unclear, Russia's aggression has already changed the European security order in important ways. The only modern European historical comparison is Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939. Both cases involved large-scale unprovoked attacks on a neighboring country with the aim of eliminating it. Hitl...

2022-04-26 16:26

South Korea's diplomatic olive branch to Japan and obstacles ahead

President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol is seeking to improve bilateral relations between South Korea and Japan. Unlike other Korean leaders, he is a neophyte and it is expected that he may reintroduce a “future-oriented” relationship with Japan.

2022-04-25 16:29

False promise of democratic peace

Through persuasion, exhortation, legal processes, economic pressure, and sometimes military force, American foreign policy asserts the United States' view about how the world should be run. Only two countries in recent history have had such world-transforming ambitions: Britain and the U.S. In the last 150 years, these are the only two countries whose power - hard and soft, f...

2022-04-25 16:21

Putin has a chance to conquer France

I'm guessing that the French presidential election isn't high on your current list of interests. If not, I suggest you take a long look at the photos that feature Vladimir Putin communing with one of his favorite goons, far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen.

2022-04-24 15:34

Security in post-American Middle East

The Middle East is learning to live without America. While the United States will continue to shape regional security, not least through its advanced weapons systems, its (perceived) retreat from the Middle East has raised serious doubts about its willingness to fulfill its commitments to its allies.

2022-04-21 16:22

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