Every step in Brexit negotiations and new procedures creates winners and losers for industries and workers throughout Europe, the United Kingdom and beyond. Members of the European Union reached draft agreement with the government of UK Prime Minister Theresa May, and the UK Parliament’s approval...
A feminist movement is expanding globally with collective actions like #MeToo and #TimesUp, yet predictably runs into challenges in conservative authoritarian regimes. In Turkey, the women’s rights movement has roots in the 19th century, and legal reforms were achieved in the early part of this...
Feminist threat: Turkish police disperse a march marking International Women's Day, left, and the Turkish government funds its own non-government organization – a GONGO – to support traditional roles for women
NEW HAVEN: As a new form of feminism...
The global response to climate change has reached a crossroads now that the US has rejected the Kyoto Protocol. Instead of capping emissions, President Bush has decided in favor of investing billions in research on technologies such as carbon sequestration, which involves storing carbon dioxide...
The global response to climate change is approaching its most critical hour since President George W. Bush rejected the Kyoto protocol. Kyoto, now ratified by 119 countries, establishes a basic structure of commitments...
中国最高领导人的选择过程是机密，以防市民或有野心的下属利用内部分歧。随着特别利益不断增长，站稳脚跟，假意的联合战线也许看起来比较审慎，也没什么吸引力。本期耶鲁全球系列评估中国准备在十月进行领导人接班时所面临的挑战。在下篇中，中国专家谢淑丽（Susan Shirk）分析了中国发展中的领导人选择过程，提出了能推动公开性的其它途径。谢淑丽是加州大学圣地亚哥分校国际关系和太平洋研究学院“21世纪中国”项目的主任，也是克林顿政府时期的副助理国务卿。每个政治家团结支持的力量和市民来选择自己所喜，这本是人的天性。中国领导人承认腐败和不平等是对体制的威胁，也许会支持改革，这可能让外国投资者和大量中国人受益，...
纽黑文：中国著名政治家、重庆市委书记薄熙来令人瞩目的解职让外国观察家想起中南海那宏伟的大门后面挥之不去的不确定。如果我们看向未来，中美关系中最大的不确定，也是最大的风险，就是中国国内政治会发生什么事。在中国，国家政治家不止要担心是否在下次选举中获胜，还要担心让中国共产党继续掌权。
我们每天都会读到中国的崛起，在这些标题的背后是一个政治领导人极其没有安全感、老是害怕可能到达统治尽头的国家。这也是个决策过程不太灵光的国家，决策过程由强大的利益集团主导，而很多利益集团来自国家内部。
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The US-China trade clash centers on intellectual property theft. “An underlying factor is the Chinese government’s rigorous censorship of imported cultural products,” explains Ge Chen, professor of law. The US Constitution protects speech as a check against excessive government power with the First...
Market without freedom: China’s authoritarian government incarcerated Nobel laureate and democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo who died in Chinese custody in 2017; Chinese citizens enjoyed a brief moment of freedom in 1979 when the government allowed...
When TV manufacturers outsource their products along a global supply chain, they create a win-win-win situation. The manufacturers have lower costs, the consumers have cheaper TV sets, and the sets are better made. Standardization of parts, economies of scale and lower transportation costs have...
Evolution of the TV
Let's say a belated Happy Birthday to a dear, valuable friend: Sept. 7 marked the 75th anniversary of the invention of television by American scientist Philo Farnsworth. In the three-quarters of a century that it has been...
Pakistan received substantial US military and financial aid since 2001, and the Trump administration canceled those payments in 2018, with the president suggesting that the country doesn't "do anything for us." Pakistan still has support from China, an ally since 1962, and Saudi...
Strategic anchor: The Pakistani port of Gwadar links Saudi and Chinese geo-economic interests, and Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan greets the Saudi crown prince
LONDON: A trilateral alliance of China-Pakistan-Saudi Arabia, driven by geo-economic...
Foreign relations with isolated North Korea are in an unending winter – hints of a thaw repeatedly followed by hard freezes. The country’s young leader, Kim Jong Un, gave a speech, the first broadcast by a North Korean leader since 1994, suggesting that his country might be ready for dialogue with...
SEOUL: Repeating the past, North Korea’s young ruler Kim Jong Un has threatened the US and South Korea with dire consequences for opposition to the nation’s missile adventurism. In a break from the past, Kim issued thinly disguised criticism of...
