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“We’ll Be Watching You”: Thunberg’s UN Speech

September 23, 2019
Global leaders are failing youth, and 16-year-old activist Greta Thunberg addressed 60 world leaders at the UN Climate Action Summit about the need for urgent action on climate change, warning “we’ll be watching you.” Her assessment was concise, blunt and searing: “People are suffering. People are...

Brookings: Globalization, Technology, Inequality

February 22, 2018
People even in the world’s most advanced and wealthiest economies are unhappy and politically fractured – this despite a full recovery from the 2008 financial crisis and growing economies. “The increasingly unequal sharing of the economic pie lies at the heart of the rising social discontent,”...

India’s Missing Women

April 23, 2019
The world would have had about 100 million more women – including many South Koreans, Indians and Chinese – without a gender bias in mortality rates in the developing world, economist Amartya Sen has posited. India and other countries have made strides in balancing sex ratios at birth. Still, in...

Identity History: Austronesian Asia?

July 2, 2019
Western terms defining regions often stick despite the existence of more relevant, indigenous language. The label “Maritime Southeast Asia,” covering the area shared by Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia, fails to take into account shared Austronesian language roots or history including the...

Russia-Turkey-Iran Triangle: Economic Interests

January 30, 2018
Diplomatic talks among Syrian parties sponsored by Russia, Iran and Turkey are underway in Sochi. Turkey’s leadership promoted the notion during the 2011 Arab Spring protests that the country could be a democratic model for other Muslim nations. But the country of 80 million people lacks natural...

Global Population: Too Few Versus Too Many

March 31, 2020
When fertility rates drift from an average of about two births per woman, societies must manage population bulges of very young or old. Nigeria has a fertility rate of 5.5 children per woman, with a median age of 18. The median age for Italy, with a rate of 1.3 children per woman, is 45. Such...

Is Trump Being Played in Kim’s Survival Game?

March 13, 2018
Two leaders, one a dictator of an isolated state and the other who oversees the world's largest economy and military, have agreed to meet. While many analysts hope a meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un might end nuclear threats for the region, journalist Shim Jae Hoon is cautious,...

薄熙来的陨落昭示着中国改革派的上升么？

April 9, 2012
选择中国共产党最高领导人———九名政治局常务委员——背后的过程冗长、仔细掂量且不为人知。这层神秘的面纱让薄熙来稍微揭起了一点。薄熙来原来似乎有望进入常委的队伍，但因为野心过大而突然被解职。这位被驱逐的重庆市委书记为了获得国家权力，进行了种种运动，包括提供大规模补贴、重拳打击腐败、调动民族主义，用高唱文革时期的歌曲来赞颂毛泽东。目前，九名常委包括主席胡锦涛、总理温家宝、副主席习近平就薄熙来事件站在统一战线上。驻香港记者秦家骢分析了政治局常委的候选人和他们的背景。他预计包括改革派汪洋在内的温和派会上升，这是外国投资者所乐意见到的 。也许政治局会确保不断的合作，...
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