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Why world needs to study China

Jean-Pierre Lehmann says the country’s centrality in our 21st-century world makes it imperative that outsiders understand what is shaping its views and decisions, and Hong Kong could do more to facilitate such learning Far from ushering in a “new world order”, so far the 21st century has been marked by turbulent uncertainties. There are very few things on which a consensus co...

Times Forum | 2017-08-21 17:40

All nations desire FDI inflows

Until a few years ago I had taught international economics including a subject about international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) at Sungkyunkwan University. I remember this subject was very popular among the students, particularly foreign students. By the university’s policy, I have lectured this course in English because a good number of foreign students were tak...

Times Forum | 2017-08-21 17:17

Franchises and the law

In the news lately there have been several negative storylines about Korean franchise owners enriching themselves at the expense of their franchisees. Of course, the very idea behind a franchise is to own intellectual property (a brand, a product or a business model) that makes money through other people’s labor who pay for the right to use it. The Korean franchise industry i...

Times Forum | 2017-08-15 17:43

ASEAN's 50th anniversary

It is the darkest days that seem to bring out the best in us - including our leaders. Nowhere could this ever be more true than with the founding of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Aug. 8, 1967 It is often fashionable today to be dismissive of ASEAN’s achievements over the following 50 years, particularly among those who believed South East Asia’s leade...

Times Forum | 2017-08-07 17:10

Are emerging alliances threat to US?

At the end of the Cold War, the United States of America comfortably became the sole superpower with no serious contender. At the end of the Cold War, with Europe as its ally and the Russia out of the race, the USA exhibited its might in the First Gulf War (1991) and other theaters of war. There was no possibility of disagreement with the U.S. amounted to blasphemy, the world...

Times Forum | 2017-08-07 17:07

Is Hong Kong doomed to be a society of low birth rates and eventually declining population? Austrian demographer Wolfgang Lutz has put forward the hypothesis of a “low fertility trap” that illustrates the challenges we face. When fertility rates fall below a certain threshold, he says, it could be trapped at a level of around 1.2 children per woman, far below the replacement ...

Times Forum | 2017-07-25 17:48

Protocols of Donald Trump

LONDON - It is an odd quirk in the history of logic that the blameless Cretans should have given their name to the famous “liar paradox.” The Cretan Epimenides is supposed to have said: “All Cretans are liars.” If Epimenides was lying, he was telling the truth - and thus was lying. Something similar can be said of U.S. President Donald Trump: Even when he’s telling the truth,...

Times Forum | 2017-07-19 17:35

Chemicals viewed as two-edged sword

By Dr. Jeffrey I. Kim Chemical substances and chemical products affect people’s everyday lives. Chemists have developed chemicals to use for sanitation, preserving food, curing diseases and creating multiplying crop yields. Wastewater treatment is an example of sanitation. Chlorine is used to kill bacteria and other microorganisms. Salt and vinegar were the first food preserv...

Times Forum | 2017-07-17 16:56

Trump scapegoats Korea

President Moon Jae-in met with his counterpart Donald Trump in a two-day summit, to discuss many looming issues including those involving North Korea. The summit was successful and productive for South Korea because Moon’s visit officially ended the political vacuum since the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye and confirmed the active role of the South Korean gover...

Times Forum | 2017-07-10 18:15

A Christmas story in July

As reported by many, President Moon Jae-in’s first stop in his inaugural visit to the U.S. was to lay a wreath at the memorial to the Battle of Chosin Reservoir at the National Museum of the Marine Corps. His address received good reviews from across the spectrum and seemed to affect people in a deeply meaningful way. But why? Because Moon told this story in three dimensions:...

Times Forum | 2017-07-07 17:29

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