Opinion
Sat, January 28, 2023 | 22:34
Editorial
Long-time watchers of Korean-Japanese relations are feeling deja vu over two things - some that repeat every year and some that come back every five years.
During the Lunar New Year holiday, an “incident” spoke much about the current relationship between Korea and China.
Thoughts of the Times
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. Andrew Hammond
Conservative thinker Milton Friedman famously declared in the 1970s, in the period leading up to the political era defined by Ronald Reaga...
. Steven L. Shields
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. Bernard Rowan
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. John J. Metzler
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Western allies are finally realizing the Ukraine war won't end until Vladimir Putin's dreams of conquest are decisively defeated on the battlefield.
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