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China Passes US in Global Patent Race: WIPO

April 21, 2020
The World Intellectual Property Organization reports that China filed more applications for international patents in 2019, surpassing the United States, which held the lead since the organization began in 1978: China filed 58,990 applications, and the United States filed 57,840. The organization...

Will Kashmir Protests and Terrorism Thwart India’s Global Ambitions?

September 15, 2008
Before summer of 2008, India and Pakistan were gradually normalizing relations and edging toward agreement on territorial claims in Kashmir. But the longstanding dispute, in play since Pakistan separated from India, remains a live issue for politicians and extremists in India and abroad, to...

Fewer Guns, Fewer Deaths: An Idea Everyone But the US Seems to Agree With

June 15, 2016
Most of the world is appalled that the United States resists pursuing what the president calls “common sense” regulations to curb mass shootings, explains Iain Overton of Action on Armed Violence for the Globe and Mail. A mass shooting in an Orlando, Florida, nightclub left 49 dead, and the suspect...

Protests Engulf Lebanon: CNN

October 22, 2019
Thousands have turned out throughout Lebanon to protest an economy in decline. About 30 percent of the population lives below the poverty line, and 30 percent of the people are also refugees. Public debt is high and young adults are abandoning the stagnant economy. The government has passed...

PayPal’s Breakthrough in China: Financial Times

October 4, 2019
After acquiring a 70 percent stake of GoPay, a small Chinese online payment company and receiving approval from the People’s Bank of China, PayPal is the first foreign company to win Chinese payments license. Visa and Mastercard are waiting for license approvals. PayPal will face a huge market...

Calls Mount Everywhere for Deportation of Illegal Immigrants

December 20, 2010
Rags-to-riches tales of traders and adventurers who provided skills and innovations during their wanderings are among the more charming parts of world history. But such globalization could go into reverse in the modern era, even in democratic nations, as political parties rile voter anger over...

National Review: Aren’t Republicans Supposed to Care about the Deficit?

November 1, 2017
In the United States, Republican candidates promise fiscal discipline and debt reduction. With a new budget resolution and plans to adjust the tax code and reduce the corporate tax rate, US political leaders are on track for annual spending deficits greater than $1 trillion, with total debt...

Project Syndicate: Ending the Business of Child Labor

November 16, 2017
Child labor is wrong, unnecessary and especially vile when wealthy consumers turn a blind eye to indulge in low-cost goods and services. In 1997, global leaders expressed a deep commitment to ending child labor, explains advocate and Nobel laureate Kailash Satyarthi, but since then “the world has...
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