Huawei Technologies held a strong lead in the world’s 5G mobile broadband race, but the Trump administration is keen to slow that rollout. The US president, in an unprecedented move, tries to block sales to Huawei of any products made with US equipment, reports David Goldman for Asia Times. The...
El crecimiento exponencial del intercambio de mercancías, ideas, instituciones y personas que vemos hoy en día es parte de una tendencia histórica duradera. A lo largo de nuestra historia, el deseo de algo mejor y más...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has made fewer public appearances throughout 2020 than he did during the same period a year ago, and whether that is due to the Covid-19 pandemic or other reasons is unknown. “Although only 36, he could be a candidate for a health event,” writes Mike Chinoy, author...
Top secret: The Kim family has controlled North Korea since 1948 and when leaders go out of sight, global security analysts speculate on transition – Kim Jong Un met with US President Trump in 2019, left, and his sister Kim Yo Jong joined a meeting...
Extreme weather events spur public worries about global warming, and costs associated with such events have increased steadily in recent years. Yet the high costs are linked to increased development in low-lying coastal areas more so than climate change, suggests author Bjorn Lomborg. Governments...
Even as the clean-up continues in the Atlantic Basin, a lot has been written about Hurricane Dean. Some commentators believe nature is sending us a message. They say that the effects of climate change are getting out of...
The 21st century has ushered in less controlling social attitudes about sexual and gender identity, and wider acceptance has both reduced stigma and discrimination while revealing the prevalence of sexual attraction and gender categories that extend beyond traditional male/female relationships and...
Diversity and human rights: Transgendered Indians struggle for dignity, and LGBTQ supporters demonstrate in the United States
NEW YORK: With its antecedents brewing for decades, the 21st century has ushered in a sexual, gender and identity...
The United States government is placing pressure on Pakistan to allow an inspection of its nuclear arsenal, and to put into place, a joint Pakistan-US monitoring mechanism. The American pressure follows the recent disclosure of a Pakistan based global network that supplied nuclear technology to...
Pakistan continues to quake under the shockwaves Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan's confession generated three weeks back. Top diplomatic sources in Islamabad say the Bush administration has presented another set of demands to...
Settling boundary disputes between China and India will draw the two countries closer together, this editorial in the Hindu maintains. Indeed, the Beijing Declaration produced at the recent India-China summit talks aims to settle long-disputed territorial claims and constitutes a mutual effort to...
THE DECISION OF India and China to launch a bold political initiative to break the impasse over the boundary dispute and the reaffirmation of their readiness to seek a mutually acceptable solution should boost the...
Western democracies struggle to deal with a rising China amid new policies on trade, security and cultural outreach. Manfred Elfstrom reviews trends including concentration of political power with increased oversight and demands for absolute loyalty; reduced emphasis and delays on domestic reforms...
