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Tue, October 19, 2021 | 01:14

America's unkept promise

During a tour of Afghanistan in January 2002, Joe Biden, then a United States senator and the chair of the Senate's Foreign Relations Committee, visited a group of Afghan children studying in a classroom. As he was leaving, a girl bravely pleaded with him for America not to abandon Afghanistan. She told him that she aspired to become a doctor in the future, just like her moth...

2021-09-30 17:15

Lartigue's Law: embrace critics

I can thank critics for some of my greatest personal and professional breakthroughs. I will never forget the newspaper columnist who accused me in a multi-part editorial of writing commentaries to become an “African-American hired gun” for think tanks.

2021-09-30 17:10

Digital equity for all ages

The growing number and share of older persons in the Asia-Pacific region represent success stories of declining birthrates and increasing longevity; the result of advances in social and economic development. This demographic transition is taking place against the backdrop of the accelerating Fourth Industrial Revolution. But COVID-19, with its epicenter now in the Asia-Pacifi...

2021-09-30 17:00

Asia-Pacific is world's most rapidly aging region, but are we ready?

Imagine it is the year 2050. In Asia-Pacific, one in four people will be over the age of 60; three times the number of older persons in 2010. With close to 1.3 billion senior citizens in less than 30 years from now, are countries in the region prepared to fully address the needs of older persons so that they age with dignity?

2021-09-30 16:59

How Quad can become inclusive regional initiative

By Song Kyung-jin History recalls that there were at least two Sept. 15ths in the early part of the 21st century on which extraordinary events happened: 2008 and 2021. On Sept. 15, 2008, the world economy witnessed the biggest-ever bankruptcy of an investment bank, Lehman Brothers. The need for China's cooperation to combat the Great Recession at that time eclipsed the needs ...

2021-09-29 17:05

Korean Peninsula and the United Nations

On the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the admission of the two Koreas to the United Nations, this is the second and last of two articles that will review the U.N.'s involvements on the Korean Peninsula since the two Koreas were established 73 years ago in the aftermath of World War II and deliberate on its future role.

2021-09-29 17:00

Why German election results matter to world

Germany's election on Sunday has indicated a desire for change in Europe's most powerful country with polls suggesting the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) won the most seats, and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union/ Christian Social Union (CDU/CSU) securing an historic low vote share.

2021-09-29 17:00

What would God do to Evergrande?

Cambridge, MA - It is a time-honored tactic of China watchers to compare the Chinese Communist Party to Christianity's God for their similarities, such as: their absolute demand for loyalty, their ubiquitous presence and their “all-knowing” ability. The fact that some experts are still debating the eventual fate of China's troubled conglomerate, Evergrande (“hengda” in Chines...

2021-09-28 16:55

Withdrawal from Afghanistan and US forces in Korea

The reputation of the United States suffered a grievous blow when the Afghan national government collapsed despite a 20-year effort to build up the country's military and democratic institutions. For many South Koreans, the situation recalls the fall of Saigon in 1975.

2021-09-28 16:54

Double standards

Recently, I wrote on Jay Park about his controversial music video: displaying guns, tattoos, and the usual tropes and stereotypes too many people associate with being a black American. I argued that the bigger problem was not cultural appropriation, as much as a reductive, narrow, boring, uncreative imagining of black American life.

2021-09-27 17:03

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