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Fri, June 2, 2023 | 23:59

Floggings will continue until morale improves

Floggings will continue until morale improves

Xi Jinping was confirmed for a third term as president of China at the National People's Congress last week, and not one of the 3,000 delegates voted against him. Why would they? Everything is perfect in the People's Republic of Oz, and the chief Wizard doesn't even need to hide behind a curtain.

2023-03-16 16:50

Korea-India Strategic Partnership in South Korea's Indo-Pacific construct: A Korean perspective

Korea-India Strategic Partnership in South Korea's Indo-Pacific construct: A Korean perspective

In its recently released global pivotal state initiative, South Korea declared it will actively promote “freedom, peace and prosperity” in the Indo-Pacific, adding the “prosperity” component to the U.S.-led drive for a “Free and Open Indo-Pacific.” Regarding the de facto diplomatic manifesto of the Yoon Suk Yeol government, Jagannath Panda and I pointed out that the Yoon admi...

2023-03-16 16:50

Stop stoning Lebanon!

Stop stoning Lebanon!

When Pope John Paul II visited Lebanon in 1997 he described the Cedar's Land as being “more than a country, Lebanon is a message to the World, an example of pluralism for East and West.”

2023-03-16 16:30

Saudi crown prince balances on Saudi-US-Israeli-Iranian tightrope

Saudi crown prince balances on Saudi-US-Israeli-Iranian tightrope

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has become adept at walking tightropes. Bin Salman's latest balancing act may be among his most challenging.

2023-03-16 16:20

What Korea should do in global chips war

What Korea should do in global chips war

Oh how the pendulum swings. In his 2007 book, “Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism,” the Korean-born economist Chang Ha-joon takes to task those who have forgotten or never learned their history. The main lesson of Chang's book is that industrial promotion policies and protectionist measures helped all current developed states achieve t...

2023-03-16 14:45

China's 'greed' compels Korea to side with US, Japan

China's 'greed' compels Korea to side with US, Japan

Recent news reports on South Korea's diplomatic moves are not music to the ears of China. On March 7, South Korea announced its plan to compensate wartime forced labor victims without the involvement of Japanese firms. It will seek donations from Korean companies that benefited from Japanese reparations and assistance as a result of the normalization of relations between the ...

2023-03-15 16:50

Kim Ji-soo

Mantra of resilience

One of the trending sentences that emerged last November in Korea was “What is important is an unbreakable heart” uttered by DRX, a Korean League of Legends esports team, while taking part in the 2022 League of Legends World Championships. Deft, DRX's captain, made the comment after losing to the European team, Rogue, in the group stage.

2023-03-15 16:50

Humbling reminder of our own place in creation

Humbling reminder of our own place in creation

I was out in my front yard late last month, staring up at the night sky, and feeling impossibly humbled by the scale and the grandeur of the universe.

2023-03-15 16:30

. Donald Kirk

'Evil empire,' 40 years later

The U.S. and the Soviet Union were still waging the Cold War, immersed in concerns about arms control and nuclear proliferation, when President Ronald Reagan, on March 8, 1983, warned against “the aggressive impulses of an evil empire” in “the struggle between right and wrong and good and evil.” Forty years later, those words ring truer than ever.

2023-03-14 17:13

. Ahn Ho-young

US must engage its allies more closely on its economic policy

Prof. Stephen Walt of Harvard University wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine one year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine, “As the world moves toward multipolarity, alliances will only matter more.” I agree.

2023-03-14 16:52

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