The world’s two largest economies are rivals that fare best when cooperating on their many shared interests, whether stemming climate change or nuclear proliferation. A key area of contention between the two powers is the South China Sea, and under Xi Jinping, China has been more aggressive in...
Challenging relationship: President Barack Obama with President Xi Jinping in Washington during the Nuclear Security Summit, top; Chinese expansion in South China Sea poses a serious challenge
WASHINGTON: As heads of state and delegations from more...
With Democrats in charge of Congress, a protectionist sentiment could envelope Washington, DC, with politicians eager to prove that they are protecting US borders, firms, jobs and wages. The business community spent large sums to defeat candidates opposed to business interests: Executives identify...
DUBUQUE, Iowa – Bidding for a congressional seat held by a free-trade Republican for nearly two decades, Democrat Bruce Braley has gained an edge by taking the opposite view: bashing globalization.
In one of...
The United States has engaged in military interventions with good intentions, but struggles to deliver lasting stability, argues Andrew J. Bacevich for the Los Angeles Times, and “instead of promoting stability – perhaps the paramount U.S. interest not only in the Islamic world but also globally –...
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From financial woes to security worries, a new world seems to be dawning in which the process of globalization risks slowing down. In part one of a two part series, YaleGlobal looks at trade troubles that may arise from a non-trade failure. For all the praise of free and open trade creating...
WASHINGTON: The benefits of trade have been frequently noted by supporters of globalization. Jagdish Bhagwati recently stated that a half-billion people in India and China have been pulled out of poverty as a result of economic growth stemming from...
This essay focuses on the consequences and future implications of relations between North Korea and the United States given the North Korea's surprise admission of a clandestine nuclear weapons program via enriched uranium. It argues that the United States is in a lose-lose foreign policy...
With last week's surprise admission that it is pursuing a new clandestine nuclear weapons program, North Korea has once again leveraged itself into the world's headlines and created a huge diplomatic headache for the...
Although the consequences of global warming are painfully vivid, some scholars still question whether it requires urgent action. In January, a group of scientists, including those from the United States, Australia, France and the Netherlands, summarized reasons for their skepticism and opposition...
Burning coal, melting glaciers: Greenhouse gases emitted by plants in cities trap heat (top); rushing water from a melting glacier adds to rising sea level
NEW HAVEN: A January 27 opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal by a group of 16 scientists...
While the US Military Commissions Act is considered more liberal than previous US congressional proposals concerning prisoners of war, it still opens the door to torture and long periods without trial. With the act, the US president assumes the right “‘to interpret the meaning and application of...
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China sets a quota on foreign films that can be shown in the country, 34 each year, and filmmakers jockey to win a place in the world’s second largest market for films. China is expected to surpass the United States as world’s biggest film market within a decade. “The only way to circumvent the...
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