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[Adam Minter] For China’s Buddhist monks, an IPO too far

In China, religion is big business. The famed Shaolin Temple owns dozens of companies and its abbot is popularly known as the “CEO monk.” Two of China’s four sacred Buddhist mountains are publicly li...

Apr 27, 2018
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[Bloomberg] Dealing With China’s high-tech ambitions

President Donald Trump’s handling of the trade relationship with China poses a threat both to the US and to the world economy -- but even his harshest critics agree with him on one thing. China’s bid...

Apr 27, 2018
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Why a Trump-Kim deal has a good shot

Saturday’s announcement by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un that his country will stop testing nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles is a sign that Kim is ready to do a deal with Don...

Apr 26, 2018
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[Michael Schuman] Don’t waste Korea summit

Hope is again rising on the Korean Peninsula. On Friday, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un are to hold a summit in the Demilitarized Zone that has divided the ...

Apr 26, 2018
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[Francis Wilkinson] America still needs its ‘new seed’ immigrants

The case for high-skilled immigration to the US isn’t hard to make. All those Ph.D.s in science and technology help build the nation’s advanced infrastructure while adding to the store of human capit...

Apr 26, 2018
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[James Stavridis] North Korea’s secret weapon: A huge electromagnetic storm

The diplomatic circuit is awash in optimism as the proposed summit between North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un and President Donald Trump draws near. Indeed, Trump is right to go to the table with the ...

Apr 26, 2018
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[Jay Ambrose] Will Trump surprise us with North Korea?

President Donald Trump is full of surprises -- major surprises, such as getting elected in the first place. Can he now deliver the biggest surprise of all by getting North Korea to give up its nuclea...

Apr 26, 2018
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[Kim Myong-sik] Internet leviathan serves as hotbed for political virus

Living in the 21st century we owe a lot to the geniuses and entrepreneurs who have played a part in the development of the computer technology and mobile communications. Everyone breathing in the con...

Apr 25, 2018
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[The Chicago Tribune] Trump is taking smart, calculated risk with North Korea talks

In July 1971, President Richard Nixon jolted the international status quo -- and set diplomatic nerves worldwide fluttering -- by announcing he would visit China. “Never in history, to our knowledge,...

Apr 25, 2018
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[Andrew Wolman] Human rights and North Korea talks

Human rights activists can be forgiven if they show less than complete enthusiasm for the upcoming summit meetings between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his South Korean and American counterpar...

Apr 25, 2018
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[Elizabeth Rosenberg, Neil Bhatiya] Don’t let up on North Korea now

The administration of US President Donald Trump may or may not be right in thinking that its “maximum pressure” campaign has brought North Korea to the bargaining table. What’s certain is that there ...

Apr 25, 2018
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[Ana Palacio] Macron’s vital message

When Emmanuel Macron was elected president of France last year, he was presented as a kind of European savior, a wunderkind who had burst onto the French political scene just in the nick of time. Now...

Apr 25, 2018
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[Kang So-young] Big changes lie ahead for media industry

The conventional TV era is expected to come to an end. Trends have changed to TV-centered content received via set-top boxes, such as cable TV and internet-based online video-streaming contents. The...

Apr 25, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] Cultural differences: enlightening and embarrassing

Cultural differences are always intriguing and fascinating. Of course, as humans we all tend to feel similar emotions in similar situations. Nevertheless, we often perceive things differently due to ...

Apr 24, 2018
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[Hal Brands] Congress again punts on Trump’s war powers

Something odd is happening in the relationship between Congress and the executive branch regarding the use of military force. For decades, or even longer, countless senators and representatives have ...

Apr 24, 2018
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