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[Kim Seong-kon] Captain Ahab and the white whale

In my class in the English Department at the University of California, Irvine, I had my American students discuss Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” with reference to multicultural issues. Some students r...

Jun 4, 2019
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[Robert J. Fouser] Trump’s chances for re-election dim

During a short visit to Kyoto, Japan, on my way to Korea, a taxi driver told me that US President Donald Trump made him nervous because he is so unpredictable. I reassured him that many, if not most,...

Jun 4, 2019
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[Mac Margolis] Survival tips for Latin American leftist leaders

Latin America’s left-wingers are in a rut. Venezuela’s Nicolas Maduro presides over a collapsing economy behind bayonets. An Ecuadoran court has ordered the arrest of former President Rafael Correa, ...

Jun 4, 2019
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[Justin Fendos] Trump trashes Pax-Americana

The recent failure of trade talks between the US and China put world markets through quite a jolt. A more careful reading, however, reveals an amicable end was probably impossible from the start....

Jun 4, 2019
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[Jean Pisani-Ferry] Europe’s citizens say they want a more political EU

The most significant result of the recent European Parliament election is neither that conservatives and social democrats lost seats to Liberals and Greens, nor that far-right nationalists gained les...

Jun 3, 2019
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[Francis Wilkinson] Democrats must win the war for truth

Poor old Robert Mueller. “Mr. Mueller seemed to expect that the system would work as it had in the past,” noted a news analysis last week in the New York Times. Former special counsel Mueller scrupu...

Jun 3, 2019
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[David Ignatius] America is at war, in cyberspace

One of the least-discussed but perhaps most consequential comments by special counsel Robert Mueller in his appearance before reporters this week was his blunt counterintelligence assessment: “Russia...

Jun 2, 2019
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[Hal Brands] Today’s US-China clash began at Tiananmen Square

Tuesday marks the 30th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre. It was an event that profoundly shaped not only modern China, but also the US-China relationship. It is the odd anniversary that ...

Jun 2, 2019
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[Rachel Laser] Abortion bans result of crumbling church-state separation

The terrifying rash of state abortion bans spreading throughout the United States has captured the nation’s attention, but in order to stop this trend, those who are fighting back must also focus on ...

May 30, 2019
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[James Stavridis] Abe failed to sway Trump on NK

The essence of sumo wrestling is simple: two enormous men struggle to throw each other out of a ring. On Sunday, Donald Trump attended a major sumo tournament in Tokyo with Japanese Prime Minister Sh...

May 30, 2019
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[James Gibney] Japan’s path to WWII shows risks of Trump’s Huawei ban

The strategic rivalry between China and the US has incited an outbreak of historical analogies -- Athens versus Sparta, the UK versus Wilhelmine Germany, or the US versus the Soviet Union. But the fr...

May 30, 2019
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[Kent Harrington] Kim Jong-un’s ‘Moneyball’ strategy

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe prioritized pomp over policy while hosting US President Donald Trump this week. The one exception was the issue of North Korea, which recently conducted more short-...

May 29, 2019
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[Kim Kyung-ho] A way out of the historical trap

President Moon Jae-in may feel that he has adhered to a principled approach to historical issues with Japan. Nevertheless, he may also be realizing that it has come round to undermine his position on...

May 29, 2019
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[Kim Seong-kon] New world order without the US

In his internationally acclaimed dystopian novel “Nineteen Eighty-four,” George Orwell portrayed the world as divided into three regions: Oceania, Eurasia and Eastasia. According to Orwell, Oceania w...

May 28, 2019
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[Lee Jae-min] Korea caught in the middle again

The intensifying US-China confrontation has just taken a new twist. Reportedly, Washington is asking Seoul to join its anti-Huawei alliance. The reason is security concerns posed by the Chinese IT gi...

May 28, 2019
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