North Korea is getting ready to launch a satellite again, using a long-range rocket that could reach Alaska. Analysts wonder if this is an attention getter for the new US administration or an attempt by a fading leader to prepare the population for succession while warning foreign enemies. The...
Rocket's red glare: North Korea's first long-range missile test in 2006 (above); Threatened with another test, South Koreans offer warm welcome to Hillary Clinton
WASHINGTON: With US spy satellites focused on North Korea...
Success at the Doha Round of world trade talks would be a major step towards reducing poverty in developing countries. Looking back over the last four decades and focusing on East Asia and China, where trade has been instrumental in surmounting poverty, it is obvious that trade, not aid, is...
The Doha Round of world trade talks is at a critical stage. The Hong Kong Ministerial is just over a month away and much remains to be done to reach agreement. A successful outcome from the Doha Round carries the...
Going against the grain of regional ideology, Spain this week granted political amnesty to nearly 700,000 illegal immigrants living in the country. This is the latest in several blanket amnesties since 1990. During a three-month period in which illegal workers and their employers could file for the...
Spain declared an amnesty yesterday for about 700,000 illegal immigrants, bucking a Europe-wide trend of cracking down on economic migrants, while striking at exploitation of those working secretly and fearfully in the...
Scientific research is now a worldwide endeavor, with researchers from multiple countries collaborating on projects. In recent years, Chinese authorities and academics have begun to take advantage of these possibilities, resulting in a growing network of global scientific research. A Sino-French...
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US naval vessels have long conducted surveillance activities in China’s exclusive economic zone, 12 to 200 nautical miles off the coast. China is now following the US lead, conducting its own surveillance off the coasts of Guam and Hawaii; “somewhat counter-intuitively, this may prove to be in the...
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The rule of law gradually evolves to regulate emerging challenges and organize international relationships. “Globalization has led nation-states to interact in new ways, and other influential groups, such as multinational corporations and activist groups, to operate on an international level,”...
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Though it’s rare for officials in Vietnam to speak freely on foreign affairs, a colonel’s speech to an academic audience was secretly recorded and posted online. “The occasion was a meeting of senior Party cadre who administer or teach at colleges and universities in the capital area, and who...
One afternoon in mid-December, Colonel Tran Dang Thanh shared his views on foreign affairs with an audience of deans and professors drawn from Hanoi's many universities. Like all Vietnamese Communist Party business, Thanh's comments were considered...
In nuclear disarmament talks last week with North Korea, the US negotiators appeared to adopt a more moderate incentive-based approach advocated by the US Department of State. While any major benefits to North Korea would come only after it fully and verifiably disarms, the mention of reducing...
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