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Sat, December 9, 2023 | 10:20

Real refugee problem

Real refugee problem

Every once in a while a photograph of a migrant's tragic death (usually that of a child) catches the public's attention. The image of three-year-old Alan Kurdi, fleeing from the Syrian civil war, dead face down in the surf on a Turkish beach in 2015, triggered a wave of sympathy that ended with Germany opening its borders to 900,000 refugees that year - and Hungary building a...

2019-07-16 17:25

Rules-based foreign reserve policy

Rules-based foreign reserve policy

If South Korea had had sufficient foreign reserves during the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis, it would not have suffered from deadly massive unemployment and an economic crash. Its per capita GDP in 2018 would have been more than $50,000 instead of $31,363. Socially and politically much improvement could have been made in Korea.

2019-07-15 15:15

Challenges for new UK PM

Challenges for new UK PM

Jeremy Hunt and Boris Johnson held their first head-to-head television debate recently in their battle to become the United Kingdom's next prime minister. With polls still indicating the sometimes-faltering Johnson could win by a landslide amongst Conservative members, the irony is that his hold on power if he wins on July 23 may be extremely fragile.

2019-07-14 15:55

Iran and Trump: uniquely dysfunctional and divided

Iran and Trump: uniquely dysfunctional and divided

Iran has “begun its march ... towards nuclear weaponry,” said Israel's energy minister Yuval Steinitz, and that is technically correct. Only one year and 60 days after President Donald Trump tore up the treaty that guaranteed Iran wouldn't make nuclear weapons and peed on the pieces, Iran has taken a tiny step towards reviving its nuclear program.

2019-07-10 17:42

EU's new leaders face big tests ahead

EU's new leaders face big tests ahead

Last Tuesday night, EU leaders agreed in principle on a new team to lead the Brussels-based club into the 2020s after a battle royal to carve up the top positions.

2019-07-08 17:34

Korean DMZ diplomacy

Korean DMZ diplomacy

In an extraordinary and spontaneous summit, President Donald Trump briefly met with North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un inside North Korea. The historic handshake and discussions between two adversaries, who rattled nuclear sabers merely two years ago, offered a highly symbolic but still decisive meeting on the divided Korean Peninsula.

2019-07-04 17:20

Trump-Kim meeting and US-Asia charm offensive

Trump-Kim meeting and US-Asia charm offensive

Donald Trump became the first sitting U.S. president to set foot on North Korean soil Sunday, meeting with Kim Jong-un at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).This capped off the final leg of his Asia tour with Mike Pompeo after previous stop-offs in Japan and India which saw them doubling down on embedding their revamped U.S. Indo-Pacific strategy in the face of China's growing stre...

2019-07-01 17:10

Hong Kong extradition and US immigration protests

Hong Kong extradition and US immigration protests

How should citizens react when “big government” does a bad thing that screams out for correction? One approach is to slip into denial and imagine nothing at all happened, because leaders are apt to err, so the best thing for your mental health is to look the other way, because nothing is going to get better soon, if ever.

2019-06-26 18:02

Iran's game

The evidence is far from conclusive, but on balance Iran probably is behind the attacks on four oil tankers in the Gulf last month and two more last Thursday. The attacks carefully avoided human casualties, so if they were Iranian, what was its goal?

2019-06-20 17:10

Does answer to our energy problems lie in tiny microbes?

Does answer to our energy problems lie in tiny microbes?

Such are the dire predictions about climate change these days that there seem to be only two courses open for society: Either we fail to act and the planet keeps heating up, or we restrict ourselves, leave our cars at home, give up hamburgers and stop flying on vacation.

2019-06-18 17:25

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