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[Justin Fendos] Kim Jong-un cornered

After much disappointment following the Hanoi summit, a few things have become clearer. Each side has made its next move, with Pyongyang, most notably, openly advertising resumption of weapons develo...

Apr 2, 2019
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[Andrew Browne] Detroit could be next victim of a tech cold war

These are testing times for Detroit’s big automakers as they puzzle over where to place their bets. Pickup trucks or driverless cars? Internal combustion engines or electric motors? Hardware or softw...

Apr 1, 2019
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[Lionel Laurent] Xi Jinping and Huawei are a serious threat to European unity

To understand Europe’s muddle over China, look at Monaco. The tiny tax haven, famous for its casinos, has forged an unlikely partnership with the communist state that would have Lenin spinning in hi...

Apr 1, 2019
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[Robert Rudolf, Sijeong Lim] Korea’s fine dust crisis: Time to face the music and be responsible

Spring has come, but a thick layer of smog hasn’t given way to a clean breeze in many Asian countries. Hazardous levels of dust and fine dust have become one of the most salient social issues in Kore...

Apr 1, 2019
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[Editorial] Investment environment

Moon government should be more serious toward regulatory, labor reforms

Apr 1, 2019
Editorial
[Lee Jae-hyon] Indonesia, a central pillar of Korea’s New Southern Policy

For many Koreans, attention will turn toward Vietnam as President Moon Jae-in implements his New Southern Policy targeting ASEAN countries and India, given the substantial economic relations between ...

Mar 31, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Moscow shouldn’t misjudge the Mueller moment

Russian claims this week that the country has been exonerated by Robert Mueller’s final report make my skin crawl. But they highlight the critical question of how the US and Russia can begin to move ...

Mar 31, 2019
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[Robert J. Shiller] Was the stock market boom predictable?

Should we have known in March 2009 that the United States’ S&P 500 stock index would quadruple in value in the next 10 years, or that Japan’s Nikkei 225 would triple, followed closely by Hong Kong’s ...

Mar 31, 2019
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[Editorial] Disappointing double standards

Hypocrisy of Moon’s spokesperson, minister nominees revealed

Mar 31, 2019
Editorial
[Hannah Storm] Bad news for women

Nancy Pelosi is the highest-ranking elected female politician in the history of the United States. Theresa May is only the second female British prime minister. Amal Clooney is a world-renowned human...

Mar 28, 2019
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[Anjani Trivedi] China bad debt is $300 billion value trap

There’s plenty of bad debt to go around for investors in distressed assets in China. The question is how to extract value from them. For years, Chinese banks shoveled nonperforming loans to asset ma...

Mar 28, 2019
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[Editorial] More than bribery

Prosecution given last chance to probe Kim Hak-ui sex bribery scandal

Mar 28, 2019
Editorial
Blaming foreign press stems from lack of self-confidence

It happened during the tough times of President Park Chung-hee’s “Yushin” rule of the 1970s. I open the door of Reuters Seoul bureau office at Ulchiro 1-ga one morning to find a piece of paper on th...

Mar 27, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] How the Reimanns can atone for their Nazi past

There is no adequate remedy for the crimes the Reimanns, Germany’s second-wealthiest family, committed in the Nazi era. But it’s still worth trying to figure out what kind of redress is possible now ...

Mar 27, 2019
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[Linda K. Smith, Sarah Tracey] Child care is infrastructure. We should treat it that way

Millions of American parents dropped their children off at child care facilities this morning. Chances are many of those facilities don’t meet basic health and safety standards. Though we know the qu...

Mar 27, 2019
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