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Thu, October 17, 2019 | 10:13

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

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

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

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

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?

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

Fake capitalism misguides youths

I have resumed teaching economics in the university - currently economic development. The class is a good mixture of local and foreign students, but I was surprised to discover that not many know much about capitalism.

2019-06-17 17:02

Will nuclear talks collapse or continue?

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday he is in “no rush” to make a deal with North Korea, on the one-year anniversary of the landmark Singapore summit, perhaps the U.S. administration's signature foreign policy initiative to date.

2019-06-16 17:00

Seoul, Washington to discuss 4th inter-Korean summit

Security Council musical chairs

In an annual process of diplomatic musical chairs the 193-member U.N. General Assembly has picked five countries to serve on the Security Council as non-permanent members. Estonia, Niger, Tunisia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines and Vietnam were elected to two-year terms on the powerful Council starting next January.

2019-06-16 16:57

China, Russia rally in response to Trump

China's Xi Jinping finished up a three-day trip to Russia, Friday, which saw 30 government and commercial agreements inked, including linking up Beijing's “Belt and Road” project with the Moscow-led Eurasian Economic Union (EAEU).

2019-06-12 17:23

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