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The Seattle Times: Live With a Nuclear North Korea and Help It Feel Less Cornered

August 23, 2017
The United States should not over-react to news that North Korea is a nuclear power. “While Kim [Jong Un] is clearly cruel, he is not crazy,” writes Walter Hatch for the Seattle Times. “What we often forget is that North Korea is also a cornered state, one without any real allies in the world. This...

China's Taiwan Dilemma

February 18, 2004
China's leadership believes strongly in the goal of a unified country - and for Beijing that means preventing Taiwan from declaring independence. For many Chinese, uniting with Taiwan is a matter of national pride. China scholar Michael Yahuda argues that pushing the issue politically or...

Future of Trade, Value Chains in Services: McKinsey

February 26, 2019
Trade increases in absolute terms though overall percentages are slowing, explains analysis from McKinsey Insights. Services like research, finance, engineering and more are growing at a faster pace than trade in goods,” creating value far beyond what national accounts measure,” the article reports...

WTO Doha Round: Do or Die

May 6, 2011
The deadlocked Doha Round of trade negotiations, nearly a decade old, has been subjected to numerous delays. With the political calendar making it difficult for major players to make concessions, time is running out to complete negotiations, contend Richard Baldwin and Simon Evenett, professors of...

Asia Sentinel: Trouble in the Air

February 7, 2017
Air quality is so poor in Delhi, the fifth largest metropolitan area in the world, that one official has described the city as a “toxic gas chamber.” Writing for Asia Sentinel, Neeta Lal explains that “The city’s thick layer of smog is no longer merely an inconvenience to residents or a danger to...

Project Syndicate: The Blockchain Lie

October 25, 2018
The bubble has burst for Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies, and economist Nouriel Roubini argues that such techno-currencies and the related blockchain distributed ledger software are over-hyped and not useful. He insists that investors find more security holding real money widely recognized by...

India’s Search for a Foreign Policy

June 26, 2008
India remains deadlocked over a US-India civilian nuclear-energy pact. Delay dims prospects for final approval by either nation and reflects the Indian government’s general inability to establish a grand strategy for itself, with foreign-policy goals that set a direction for the country, argues...

Iran-Saudi Arabian Embrace: A New Beginning?

March 9, 2007
The US, struggling to control violence in Iraq, has ratcheted up its threat against neighboring Iran as a primary culprit. Longstanding US concerns about Iran defying the international community by developing nuclear weapons have recently been heightened by its accusation that the Islamic state has...
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