When SARS was first reported by China to the World Health Organization last February, the world was little prepared for the consequences that were to follow from that pneumonia-like disease. We are only now beginning to understand the toll the disease took on individuals as well as entire...
Toronto during the last SARS epidemic. Next time will it be a just a nuisance or another crisis? (CP Photo/Kevin Frayer)
NEW HAVEN: "Life," Aabye Kierkegaard observed, "must be lived forward, but it can only be...
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原编者按 对伊战争一直占据着报纸的大字标题，但这并不是2003年惟一具有重大意义的地缘政治大事。《外交政策》杂志编辑莫易斯-奈伊姆提醒我们，在向2004年迈进的时候，我们不能忽视2003年内发生在欧盟、全球贸易体系、美国和中国的经济，以及俄罗斯内部的根本性变化。在新的一年开始的时候，某些转变的长久后果将主导世界的舞台。奈伊姆阐释说，当我们进入新的一年时，为什么美元的下跌、...
核武器不扩散条约》（NPT，以下简称《条约》）近来遭到了其缔约国的极大破坏：北朝鲜和伊朗不过是其中之一。而一直以来，印度、巴基斯坦和以色列这三个拥有核武器的国家都反对加入该条约，这对《条约》来说也不是好消息。但是，印度最近已经作出了友好表示，希望以核武器国家（NWS）的身份加入《条约》。在戴维•P•费德勒（David P. Fidler）和苏米特•甘古利（Sumit Ganguly）两位教授看来，印度的上述做法为《条约》带来了挑战，因为美国和其他四个核武器国家可能并不希望新成员加入其联盟。印度之所以建立核武器库，主要是为了起到威慑作用，她也不像中国和巴基斯坦那样，尝试扩散核武器。实际上，...
默默等待：印度总理曼莫汉•辛格（Manmohan Singh，左）和最近刚刚离任的国际原子能机构总干事穆罕默德•巴拉迪（Mohamed El Baradei)
伯明顿（Bloomington）：对伊朗核计划的持续披露，令整个世界面临的核扩散 危险逐步升级。将在今年四月召开的核安全峰会和五月召开的《核武器不扩散条约》（NPT）审查会议上，奥巴马总统将努力推动建立无核武器的世界，但不断增 加的核扩散危险可能会让奥巴马总统的追求落空。尽管世界各国几乎都成了《条约》的缔约国，但印度、...
China’s policy toward North Korea is increasingly viewed as self-serving, cynical and awkward. On one hand, China sides with the international community, echoing demands for a nuclear-free peninsula and, on the other, props up the Kim regime with food and military aid. At first glance, North Korea’...
Backer from Beijing: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il (right), his son Kim Jong Un (left), and Chinese Vice Premier Li Keqiang in Pyongyang in 2011 (top); South Koreans protest China's plan to repatriate North Korean refugees
SEOUL: Two months...
The rule of law is a fundamental prerequisite of globalization that contributes to a stable environment for trade and investment, argues Ge Chen, an expert on China’s judicial system and legal policies at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin. Chen writes about the fervent anti-...
Party unites to impose rule: Former politburo member Zhou Yongkang is charged with corruption, and the Chinese Communist Party unanimously votes to include party Secretary General Xi Jinping's thought in the Chinese Communist Party’s Charter
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The United States launched tariffs on a range of products, and China, the European Union, Canada and Mexico quickly retaliated. The US targeted products associated with the Made in China 2025 initiative, and in turn China targeted US agriculture, the car sector, medical products and coal. “A list...
Prices are climbing for oil, the most traded commodity on global markets and the world’s leading energy source. Much production is in volatile regions, and it comes as little surprise that production and trade in crude oil and refined petroleum products have produced a flourishing illicit market...
Hot commodity: High energy prices can encourage black markets, and oil from a makeshift refinery in Idlib, Syria, can eventually make its way to tankers destined for Europe or the Asia Pacific (Reuters)
BERKELEY: Oil is still the world’s leading...
Power is lucrative and intoxicating, and some politicians will use any means necessary to remain in office and ruin democratic checks. Special interests, lobbying interests and extremists tend to support nepotism, self-dealing, patronage, misuse of public resources, graft and bending rules,...
