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Thu, January 20, 2022 | 01:17

What really matters in Sino-American competition?

The United States and China are competing for dominance in technology. America has long been at the forefront in developing the technologies (bio, nano, information) that are central to economic growth in the 21st century.

2021-12-09 16:51

Reimagining care

The recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) and the ongoing negotiations over U.S. President Joe Biden's social infrastructure bill, known as the Build Back Better Act, share an important feature. At the heart of global efforts to mitigate and adapt to climate change is a commitment to care for our planet. Similarly, Biden's bill is a down payment on building ...

2021-12-09 16:50

Best Christmas gift is time

Our time is the best gift we can give to our friends and family this Christmas. Nobody knows how much time we have on Earth - nobody knows when our time will end.

2021-12-09 16:48

Can Biden make world safer for democracy?

U.S. President Joe Biden has made “revitalizing democracy the world over” a key goal of his administration, but it has taken almost a year since his inauguration to fulfil the central pledge of holding a summit of democracies which takes place on Thursday and Friday.

2021-12-08 16:53

Women in politics

With less than a hundred days remaining until the next presidential election, the two major political parties are in a race to recruit top talent to their campaigns. For the two major parties trying to appeal to undecided voters, a key theme is diversity. A political party tries to signal how different it is to its former self by recruiting someone who is cut from a very diff...

2021-12-08 16:44

The connectivity war

Many observers have long assumed that the future of geopolitics will be decided in a sea battle over the Taiwan Strait or some rocky outcropping or atoll in the South China Sea. Yet we could probably learn more by examining the treatment of a few thousand desperate refugees in the twenty-first century's geopolitical backwaters.

2021-12-08 16:24

Omicron: the last variant to fear?

In the 16th century, the French writer Michel de Montaigne wrote: “the thing of which I have most fear is fear”; which has been interpreted as “The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents.”

2021-12-07 16:41

A guy never forgets his first car

The other day, Otis, the used car dealer, pulled out a wad of bills and handed my son two crisp C-notes. That's all Danny's '98 Pontiac Grand-Am was worth anymore, but the rite of passage it had provided was invaluable.

2021-12-07 16:22

Korean labor market in rapid transition

Last month U.S. President Joe Biden got a much-needed win with the House of Representatives passing the $1.75 trillion stimulus package for social safety net and climate change initiatives. The bill now moves to the U.S. Senate, which could be the biggest challenge for President Biden battling a plummeting approvals rating after less than a year in office. The Build Back Bett...

2021-12-05 14:59

Xi's backward odyssey

Momentous changes are casting a long shadow on China. The country's political system will soon undergo a profound reform, pending final approval (a quasi-formality) at next year's congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC). President Xi Jinping, the party chairman and the “navigator” of the country, has decided on a new course, abandoning the principle of collective leade...

2021-12-05 14:56

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