The Covid-19 pandemic combined with protectionist restrictions has disrupted food processing and transportation, resulting in waste at farms and shortages in stores. Perishable vegetables and products like milk are at high risk, while prices for wheat, rice and other staples climb. The Wall Street...
In this New York Times op-ed article, controversial novelist Salman Rushdie rejects the official US stance that the war against terrorism is not about Islam. The US dissociates terrorism from Islam to maintain the global coalition against terrorism that necessarily includes Muslim countries....
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日本即将产生的大选结果也许并不只是公众对执政的自民党信心的一次考验，而可能决定该国参与世界事务的性质。三島 浩（Mishima Ko）教授认为，日本国民怀疑自民党对国家经济的掌控能力，因此反对党日本民主党（Democratic Party of Japan，DPJ) 似乎已经胜券在握。虽然自民党的政策曾帮助推动日本成为一个经济大国，但是许多日本人认为这样的政策已经不再适合日本当前的经济现实了。日本需要变革。尽管有关这场变革的细节仍存争议，但是人们正开始达成共识，认为随着政府鼓励国内消费，出口可能不再主导日本的经济。日本的人口结构正在加速老龄化，而且老年群体的消费也变得更加节约；在这一背景下，...
填满商厦：日本的下一任政府将需要拉动内费
宾夕法尼亚州东斯特劳德思堡（EAST STROUDSBURG, PA）：日本将于8月30日选出新的国会众议院。鸠山由纪夫（Yukio Hatoyama）领导的反对党日本民主党，将有很大的机会击败从1955年以来几乎一直垄断执政权的日本自民党。如果这次选举地震真的发生，造成它爆发 的原因之一是日本未能根据全球化作出相应调整。由此带来的冲击也将影响到日本以外的世界。
此次政治发展的背景是，日本民众对日本在全球经济中的地位的看法发生了改变。...
The United Nations’ nuclear non-proliferation treaty has been remarkable for limiting nuclear arms over the past 50 years, but three trends threaten those efforts. The first is slow breach of nuclear arms control agreements between Russia and the United States. The second is that nine known nuclear...
The coming negotiations over the successor to the Kyoto Protocol appear doomed as states express more concern about their narrow rights than the planet’s health. Bo Ekman, founder of Tällberg Forum, argues for developing fallback policies that global citizens must consider in the event of failure...
Shrinking planet: Walrus sits on a precarious perch as arctic ice sheets melt
and the scramble for energy grows all over the world (top); Chinese citizens queue
for diesel fuel (bottom)
STOCKHOLM: To all intents and...
Bowing to pressure from the US and other nations, Iran has announced that it will suspend nuclear enrichment for "an interim period" to help "create a new atmosphere of trust and confidence between Iran and the international community". Meeting with the foreign ministers of...
Iran has agreed to suspend its disputed uranium enrichment programme and allow tougher UN inspections of its nuclear sites, after talks on Tuesday with British, French and German foreign ministers in Tehran....
At a conference on terrorism held today, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan argued that a clear, rational approach to dealing with terrorism is the only way to defeat it. "The rage we feel at terrorist attacks must not remove our ability to reason. If we are to defeat terrorism, it...
Secretary-General Kofi Annan made the following remarks today at a conference on "Fighting Terrorism for Humanity: A Conference on the Roots of Evil":
Let me congratulate you, Mr. Prime Minister, and you, Elie...
With US politicians up in arms over deficits and debt, defense manufacturers anticipate sharp budget reductions for the US Department of Defense. US spending on defense nearly doubled in the decade following the 9/11 attacks, but even hardline politicians have expressed a new willingness to reduce...
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