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[Victor D. Cha, Abraham M. Denmark] The case against doing nothing about North Korea

Barely three months after they met in Singapore, President Donald Trump says he would be happy to sit down again with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un. One might justifiably ask why, given how littl...

Sept 16, 2018
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[Dean Baker] The bailout didn’t save us

Last week marked 10 years since the harrowing descent into the financial crisis -- when the huge investment bank Lehman Bros. went into bankruptcy, with the country’s largest insurer, AIG, about to f...

Sept 16, 2018
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[Adam Minter] China’s dimming its biggest stars

By late spring, Fan Bingbing, China’s most popular actress, had become a cultural juggernaut. She had 63 million followers on Weibo, China’s Twitter-like social network, and high-profile endorsement ...

Sept 16, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Kerry’s memoir shows a man strong enough to not worry about looking weak

The public conversation this past week was dominated by a book about a man who is obsessed with winning, President Trump. Too little attention was given to a book about someone who illustrates the be...

Sept 16, 2018
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[Trudy Rubin] Will anyone save Syrians in Idlib from possible massacre by Putin, Assad?

The world is watching as Russia and the Syrian regime prepare to unleash the biggest bloodbath yet in the Syrian saga of horrors. Yet no one seems to know how to prevent a massive attack on Idlib, th...

Sept 16, 2018
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[David Ignatius] A portrait of a president who places image over principle

Only a man who is deeply worried about his own strength would talk as much as Donald Trump does about the danger of appearing weak. That’s my biggest takeaway from reading “Fear,” Bob Woodward’s new...

Sept 13, 2018
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[Anjani Trivedi] China’s imperial growth delusion just won’t die

The big state-owned Chinese enterprise is back. But this time, it isn’t looking sturdy enough to prop up the economy. As growth stumbles, Beijing is falling back on a tried and trusted solution: usi...

Sept 13, 2018
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[Brooke Sutherland] Ford to Trump: That’s not how it works

How many company warnings will it take to convince President Donald Trump that his trade war is backfiring? In the months since Trump ratcheted up trade tensions with both China and erstwhile US al...

Sept 12, 2018
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[Fu Ying] How should China respond to a changing US?

Visiting the US recently, I was told by virtually every American I met that attitudes toward China had shifted. This phenomenon, they claimed, cut across bipartisan lines as well as government, busin...

Sept 12, 2018
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[Zack Wasserman] Russian hijacking of US tech didn’t start with Facebook

The 2016 presidential election wasn’t the first time Russia attempted to use Silicon Valley and its technologies against the US. During the 1980s, Soviet spies plied their trade up and down the San F...

Sept 12, 2018
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[Nicolas Loris, Katie Tubb] Coal and nuclear industries: Avoiding duct-tape solution

We’ve all been there. Something breaks in your home or knocks your car bumper loose, so you turn to every American’s trusted helper: duct tape. But while duct tape may offer an easier, quick-fix solu...

Sept 12, 2018
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[Kim Myong-sik] Deepening worries over future of armed services

“Sweat in peacetime saves blood in war,” drill sergeants shouted to us young recruits many years ago. Maybe they still use those same words, but compulsory military service in the 1960s really meant ...

Sept 12, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Promoting popular Korean studies

September is moving time in university cities and college towns across Europe and North America as students get settled for the new academic year. For many young people, the move from home to univers...

Sept 11, 2018
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[Albert R. Hunt] It’s too late to stop a blue wave, but not for Trump to try

A consensus is building in both US political parties that Democrats are heavily favored to take control of the House of Representatives on Nov. 6 and to pick up half a dozen governors’ offices, while...

Sept 11, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] If Stephen King came to Korea

Stephen King is undisputedly the most prominent horror fiction writer of our times, and his stories are undeniably bone-chilling and hair-raising. Nevertheless, there is much more to his stories and ...

Sept 11, 2018
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