US President Donald Trump seeks partners in his push to rebalance global trade, reduce global agreements with environmental and other constraints, and build US influence based on power rather than cooperative alliances. He views the UK’s Boris Johnson as a likeminded leader, after an overwhelming...
It’s a mistake to judge a nation by its most vocal extremists. Iran, a country of 80 million, is young, diverse, urbanized and entrepreneurial. The literacy rate is 85 percent and many Iranians pursue advanced degrees. The country’s ranking for inequality is near that of the United States. “There...
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Economic integration on a scale the size of Europe is not easily accomplished. A plan to bring in another 10 member states expands the possibilities for regional cooperation, but it has also threatened to harm the economy of the former East Germany. After some deliberation, the European...
Eastern Germany will continue to receive billions in subsidies from the European Union earmarked for poor regions despite the membership of several other former communist countries, which will pull down the Union's per...
Kofi Annan, the UN secretary-general, is inherently cautious in his choice of words. In the weeks leading to the Iraq war, Annan refrained from outright criticism of the grounds for invasion, and only recently did he warn of the dangerous precedents established by preemptive action. But in a recent...
The declaration of the United Nations secretary-general, Kofi Annan, on the Iraq war was shocking in its simplicity. He described it for the first time as "illegal". No caveats. No equivocation. None of the ambiguity...
Political leaders in southern region of the United States are making strides to limit abortion rights with the ultimate goal of reversing the Roe v. Wade court decision that protects a woman’s right to end a pregnancy. The laws target poor and vulnerable women while the wealthy women can travel to...
China’s Belt and Road global investment strategy is financing more than $1 trillion in infrastructure development in more than 70 nations. The initiative, global in scope, is a response to the US “pivot to Asia” announced under the Obama administration, “carefully and astutely crafted to take...
Camel caravan in Gansu province (Photo by Hu You, China Daily)
The Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus: The evolving US-China trade war, which reached a dangerous level of US tariffs being imposed on $200 billion worth of imports from China, has...
不断增大的劳动力流动与全球的人口增长和轻松出行相伴而生。世界上有大约5000万非法移民，其中差不多有四分之一生活在美国。移民研究中心（the Center for Migration Studies）主任约瑟夫•夏米（Joseph Chamie）解释说，各国普遍反对非法移民，然而对那些违法者进行辨认、抓捕和遣返却是个大大的难题。各国内部就遣返问题分歧严重，而且法律程序代价昂贵。于是，美国仅仅遣返了一小部分非法移民，2008年的比例还不到百分之四。全球经济衰退带来的压力和失业使得各国迫切想要控制边境。亚利桑那州通过的一部法律将于2010年7月29日生效，该法要求严格执行联邦移民法，...
凄凉的归途：被美国遣返的移民返回危地马拉
纽约：美国政府与亚利桑那州之间的法律交锋让人们清楚地看到，关于非法移民的论战，其底线在于是否应该遣返一国之内的不法居民。
非法移民潮不断壮大的，其中许多无证人员徒步、搭乘卡车或破船抵达；其他人逾签证有效期滞留；还有一些人的庇护主张被否决。从安哥拉到澳大利亚、从以色列到意大利、从英国到美国，各国都在竭力处理这个棘手的问题。
自上世纪30年代“大萧条”以来最剧烈的全球经济衰退和广泛的失业使遣返所面临的困境变得更加尖锐。...
The United States under the Trump administration has targeted China as a trade and security threat, and North Korea’s Kim Jong-un takes advantage of the rising tensions to court three presidents: Moon Jae-in of South Korea, Xi Jinping of China and Donald Trump of the United States. China, resisting...
Catbird’s seat: Kim Jong-un, left, meets with Xi Jinping over North Korea’s rising strategic value amid rising tensions with the United States; US Vice President Mike Pence’s suggests that a new Cold War may be underway
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