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Mon, June 25, 2018 | 15:07

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Guarantee the US guarantee

We are all relieved to see the Pyeongchang Peace Initiative blooming. But is there any room for optimism going into the June 12 U.S.-North Korea Summit between the U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean Chairman Kim Jong Un? If the past is any indicator, the chances are high that the summit will be a failure. There may be no deal, or else it will be a short-lived one li...

Guest Column | 2018-06-11 17:34

Are emerging markets canary in the financial coal mine?

Are brewing exchange-rate and debt crises in Argentina and Turkey localized events without broader implications? Or are they early warning signs of deeper fragilities in bloated global debt markets that are being exposed as the U.S. Federal Reserve continues to normalize interest rates?

Guest Column | 2018-06-11 16:57

Trump's trade delusion

Halfway across the Pacific Ocean, Donald Trump heard the closing statements from the G7 summit in Quebec (which he had left early to meet North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un in Singapore).

Guest Column | 2018-06-11 16:37

Trade war is no way to treat friends

President Donald Trump's mistaken assertion that Canada burned down the White House in 1814 is minor compared with his confusion over the trade relationship with our northern neighbor.

Guest Column | 2018-06-11 16:33

India needs to re-strategize in the Indo-Pacific region

The Indo-Pacific region is one of the world's most significant geostrategic and economic features, replacing the emphasis enjoyed by the Atlantic-Pacific region. With a high volume of seaborne trade passing through the Strait of Malacca, the Straits of Singapore and the Gulf of Hormuz, the region has become a theater of competing claims and power plays.

Guest Column | 2018-06-10 16:51

Israel scores painful own goal in run-up to the World Cup

Argentina's cancellation of a friendly match against Israel because of Israeli attempts to exploit the match politically is likely to reverberate far beyond the world of soccer and spotlights the risks of Israeli efforts to persuade the international community to recognize Jerusalem as its capital.

Guest Column | 2018-06-10 16:21

How President Trump should play the summit

The summit almost certainly is going to happen. Neither party can afford to cancel this late. How best to make it a success? We know the result will not be denuclearization as defined by the U.S. We will not implement the so-called Libya model, collecting North Korea’s nukes, despite what National Security Adviser John Bolton said.

Guest Column | 2018-06-09 11:20

The Intellectual Dark Web's freedoms

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.'s decision in Schenck v. the United States, which judged that the defendant's opposition to the draft during World War I was not protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution, still reverberates around society. The question, whether it relates to a baker and sexual proclivities, a pug dog and its tricks, or the various cumberworlds we exper...

Guest Column | 2018-06-09 09:34

War is no option even if the Korean summit fails

The summit with North Korea is back on. But if the Trump-Kim tete-a-tete goes badly, what is needed is more diplomacy, not war, as the administration suggested.

Guest Column | 2018-06-08 18:52

Trump makes G7 toughest for years

The G7 presidents and prime ministers met in Canada on Friday and Saturday in what is likely to prove one of the group's most challenging such summits in many years. On a range of issues from trade to climate change and Iran, the United States appears to be dividing from key Western partners at a time of significant geopolitical and international economic turbulence giving ri...

Guest Column | 2018-06-08 18:13

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