The US-China trade clash centers on intellectual property theft. “An underlying factor is the Chinese government’s rigorous censorship of imported cultural products,” explains Ge Chen, professor of law. The US Constitution protects speech as a check against excessive government power with the First...
Market without freedom: China’s authoritarian government incarcerated Nobel laureate and democracy campaigner Liu Xiaobo who died in Chinese custody in 2017; Chinese citizens enjoyed a brief moment of freedom in 1979 when the government allowed...
The Almond, the first novel of North African writer Nedjma, has attracted media and critical attention ever since its publication in France last year. The novel is a study of sex – a topic very much off-limits to authors in traditional Arab societies, let alone the women who live within the...
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Japan and Italy are major economies, ranked third and ninth in the world, respectively. Yet both have slipped in recent years, a result of insular policies that in turn encourage provincialism. The cultures offer beautiful and unusual elements that draw admiration from around the world. Ironically...
Between local and global: Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Italian counterpart Matteo Renzi seek to open to the world (top); but local charm endures in both countries - hilltop town of Pienza in Tuscany
ROME: It might seem odd but two inward...
One out of five people in the world are Muslim, and many Europeans express fear about growing numbers of Muslim migrants. “Islam in Europe tends to be viewed as not only a recent, but also a foreign and threatening presence,” explains Nayef Al-Rodhan, University of Oxford philosopher,...
Wisdom from the East: The House of Wisdom – the royal library in Abbasid Baghdad (top); the world map by Al-Idrisi, looking southward
OXFORD: Recent years have seen much talk of the dangers of Islam in the West and its perceived incompatibility with...
The perceptions of national identity vary sharply among and within countries, especially between urban and rural areas. “A Pew Research Center survey finds that people generally place a relatively low premium on a person’s birthplace: Only 13 percent of Australians, 21 percent of Canadians, 32...
Will the real McCoy stand up? Some might ask who is Brazilian, left, while Japan faces a growing generation gap>
WASHINGTON: The tide of people moving across the world as immigrants or refugees has sparked concern in the developed world – from...
Even a world superpower can use a few allies. European nations, long stalwart friends of the US, express alarm that the Bush administration could consider attacking Iran without extensive diplomacy, consultation with allies, and reasoned responses such as revision of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation...
EDITO - 2006 is full of ‘explosive issues’ within NATO which are generating bitter relations between the US and its most faithful partners. There is also this growing feeling among Europeans that European defense and...
Drones attacked Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Abqaiq oil processing facility on September 14, eliminating 50 percent of the country’s oil output. That loss represents 5 percent of the global supply, and the attacks put the country under an uncomfortable spotlight, with questions about an economy that fails...
Under a shadow: Drones attacked Saudi Arabia’s Aramco Abqaiq oil processing facility, and new energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman, the first royal to hold the position, fields questions on supply and security
CANTON, CHINA: The recent drone...
A standoff punctuated with frequent clashes in recent weeks along the Line of Actual Control turned violent with the death of 20 Indian soldiers in Galwan Valley in Ladakh. China did not release casualty figures. Indian sources suggested as many as 40 Chinese died in brutal hand-to-hand combat that...
