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[Lee Jae-min] It’s a good club to join, but the question is membership fee

Still a bit of a tongue twister even to experts: hard to pronounce and difficult to remember. Many tend to get the sequence of the letters wrong. The CPTPP stands for the Comprehensive and Progressiv...

Feb 19, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Artificial Intelligence is getting good at fake news

Algorithms have long been able to produce basic news stories from press releases or sets of financial data; that’s not much of a threat to most humans in the news business. Now, however, artificial i...

Feb 19, 2019
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[Hal Brands] Are Russia and China getting closer? US spy chiefs think so

Substance often runs a distant second to drama in the age of Donald Trump. So it was when America’s intelligence chiefs visited Capitol Hill recently to deliver their agencies’ annual worldwide threa...

Feb 19, 2019
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[Andrew Sheng] Embrace diversity or accept divorce

Two major divorces are in the making in March. The obvious one is Brexit, which officially occurs on March 29. The other is the deadline for the US-China trade negotiations on March 1, when US tariff...

Feb 18, 2019
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[Michael Schuman] What North Korea could learn from Vietnam

Vietnam is more than a convenient neutral site for the second summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, which is slated for later this month. The Southeast Asian...

Feb 18, 2019
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[Anjani Trivedi and Shuli Ren] China’s default wave spares the biggest fish

Brace yourself: A growing number of hard-up Chinese borrowers are not making good on their debts. The pattern is all too familiar. After a record year of defaults in 2018, two big issuers failed to...

Feb 18, 2019
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[Leonid Bershidsky] Europeans grow tired of US-led alliance

As the US-led world order continues to fall apart, second-tier powers are trying to salvage what they can. But in Germany and France, at least, voters don’t really want the US to be part of the proce...

Feb 18, 2019
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[Gina Barreca] Perils of going online in the middle of the night

Whatever you’re doing out of a sense of desperation at 2 a.m., odds are that it’s not going to be one of your healthiest choices. Last week, I wasn’t feeling well and couldn’t sleep. Not wanting to...

Feb 18, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Trump’s red line turning blue

President Trump has been insisting for so long that any investigation of his personal finances would cross a “red line” that people may have overlooked the outrageousness of his claim. But this self-...

Feb 17, 2019
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[Noah Feldman] Democrats’ compromise strengthens case for wall ‘emergency’

In retrospect, it seems obvious that President Donald Trump would want to have his cake and eat it, too. That’s essentially what he was doing Friday by both signing a government funding bill that pro...

Feb 17, 2019
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[Justin Fendos] Government fails at public relations

I asked some university students a few weeks ago about President Moon’s economic policies. By far, the most common response was: “I don’t know what they are doing.” Because this statement was made wi...

Feb 17, 2019
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[Sasha Fisher] Democracy beyond voting and protests

For over a decade now, we have witnessed more elections and, simultaneously, less democracy. According to Bloomberg, elections have been occurring more frequently around the world. Yet Freedom House ...

Feb 17, 2019
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[Cass R. Sunstein] Case for curbing social media getting stronger

The US government should not regulate social media. It should stay far away from Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram and the rest. Any regulatory effort might well violate the First Amendment. Even...

Feb 17, 2019
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[David Ignatius] Trump, Kim could make world safer

The showy first summit between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un last June was draped in flags and bunting, but the decoration covered what turned out to be a mostly empty...

Feb 14, 2019
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[Joseph E. Stiglitz] How can we tax footloose multinationals?

In the last few years, globalization has come under renewed attack. Some of the criticisms may be misplaced, but one is spot on: Globalization has enabled large multinationals, like Apple, Google, an...

Feb 14, 2019
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