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Tue, October 3, 2023 | 06:50

What the wildfires teach us

What the wildfires teach us

On a clear day, the view from the top-floor terrace of the Kennedy Center is one of the best in the nation's capital.

2023-06-15 16:20

Enhanced military partnership to nuclear-based alliance

Enhanced military partnership to nuclear-based alliance

The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) is cut off from the rest of the world, is desperately poor, and has declared war on its neighbor to the south, South Korea, a key U.S. ally. The United States has maintained a military presence on the Korean Peninsula since the Korean War in the early 1950s when it backed South Korean forces in their fight against North ...

2023-06-15 16:00

The Saudis win the golf game

The Saudis win the golf game

Oil money, oil money. When you have as much of it as Saudi Arabia has, it can buy a lot of things - including a sacred American sports institution like the PGA.

2023-06-15 15:50

Lee Hyo-sik

Korea must overcome China's 'sabotage campaign'

We have only five more months to go until 179 countries around the world vote to decide which city will host the World Expo 2030. Government officials and businesspeople have been working tirelessly to attract the international event to the southeastern port city of Busan since President Yoon Suk Yeol took office in May last year.

Lee Hyo-sik | 2023-06-14 16:35

. Kim Sang-woo

China alienates itself

The leaders of the Group of Seven on May 21 pledged to “de-risk” without decoupling from China, an approach that reflected European and Japanese concerns. The G7 communique noted that they did not seek to “thwart China's economic progress and development.”

2023-06-14 16:30

China builds economic integration in Central Asia

China builds economic integration in Central Asia

Chinese President Xi Jinping has announced a new policy for the development of Central Asia, comprising initiatives such as infrastructure construction for better trade activities and adopting integration-based development projects.

2023-06-14 16:20

. Song Kyung-jin

Securing critical mineral supply chains

Securing supply chains for critical minerals has emerged as one of the most challenging economic security issues. Critical minerals are essential for sustainable industrial competitiveness given industrial structures that need critical materials. Take for example semiconductors and batteries. Semiconductors need critical minerals such as gallium and germanium. For battery man...

2023-06-13 16:35

. Ahn Ho-young

Partnership in era of 'New Washington Consensus'

In my many years of service as a diplomat, I experienced two tectonic changes in the international system. The first one was the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s. In the following 30 years or so, the “rules-based international order” spread beyond the borders of the free world. The second one is the ongoing challenges now buffeting the “rules-based international order” ...

2023-06-13 16:30

After the Ukraine dam disaster, NATO must make Putin pay for his war crimes

After the Ukraine dam disaster, NATO must make Putin pay for his war crimes

When Ukraine's U.N. ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya addressed a special Security Council session last Tuesday about the destruction of the Nova Kakhovka dam, he confronted his Russian counterpart as “the representative of Putin's terrorist regime…that has detonated a bomb of mass environmental destruction.”

2023-06-13 16:20

. Bernard Rowan

Display and the new bipolarity

Recently, Chinese and Russian jets flew side-by-side into the zone next to South Korean airspace. This display of unity betrays the new bipolar world between the Alliance for Freedom and the Alliance for Autocracy. Much Chinese and Soviet behavior in the skies or elsewhere is display. Flybys, cutoffs and maneuvers “challenge” other nations and are dangerous and unnecessary. A...

2023-06-12 16:35

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