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Where is China headed?

During a speech at an event celebrating the Chinese Communist Party's 100th anniversary on July 1, Xi Jinping warned that those who try to “bully, coerce and enslave” China will “break their heads on the steel Great Wall built with the blood and flesh of 1.4 billion Chinese people.”

2021-07-21 16:51

Xi Jinping's race against time

When it comes to analyzing China, there are usually three levels of approaches. One is to be mindful of China as a “Communist state” and to try to draw any meaningful conclusions from there. The second is to focus on China's factional politics, such as the “Princelings,” or the “Shanghai Gang,” or “Youth League Faction.” The third approach is to look at China's top leader.

2021-07-20 17:10

Why the Asia-Pacific has vacuum to fill

The Asia Pacific Economic Council (APEC) held the first extraordinary leadership meeting in its history, Friday, as the region recovers from the pandemic, its biggest economic and political shock since World War II.

2021-07-20 17:05

China's peninsula engagement

China and North Korea seem to be getting closer these days. The leaders of the two countries exchanged congratulatory messages on the 60th anniversary of the China-DPRK Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance on July 11. In the message, they emphasized advancing the development of respective socialist causes and strengthening strategic communication, based on ...

2021-07-19 16:27

Explaining Korea's policy mix

“Fiscal and monetary policies should complement each other, depending on the economic situation.”

2021-07-19 16:26

Return to Korean-style Confucianism

This week, through the upside of all this downside known as the COVID-19 pandemic, I will be giving a lecture to an audience based in Brisbane, Australia, at the University of Queensland. The topic: "Two Types of Korean Confucian Cultural Legacy and Its Implication to Contemporary Korean Culture and Society.”

2021-07-18 15:45

How to enhance peaceful nuclear cooperation between Korea, US

Wrapping up their summit on May 21, Presidents Moon Jae-in and Joe Biden came up with a joint statement, which contained a commitment “to develop cooperation in overseas nuclear markets, including joint participation in nuclear power plant projects.” The commitment came as a pleasant surprise to many observers in Korea and the U.S., including me.

2021-07-18 15:12

Battling for glory in England

The tension was building for days. Commentators of all political stripes were writing that the English, divided between right and left, liberals and conservatives, haves and have-nots, upper and middle and lower classes, were coming together at last. The unifying force: a game of soccer, or football, between the English and Italians for Euro Cup 2020.

2021-07-15 17:05

Getting Multilateralism 4.0 right

The allied powers victorious in World War II, led by the United States, created the United Nations as a universal institution with three objectives: stable peace, sustainable development and universal human rights. The inter-linkage of these objectives, as well as the scale and intensity of the tasks they involve, make clear that they cannot be met by any single country no ma...

2021-07-13 17:15

Confucian friendship

Recently, I've taken to helping my best friend in a fortunate way. He's allowed me to mentor his second son in a job search. It happened after wishing the young man a happy birthday on Facebook. In doing so, my friend has given me a chance to help a fine college graduate search for his first job in the United States. The experience leaves me with good feelings, and also a sen...

2021-07-13 17:10

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