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[Terry Miller] A tale of two recoveries: Germany vs. U.S.

ViewpointsJan 17, 2011

Can a nation spend its way to prosperity? We don’t have to guess. The experience of two countries over the last year ― Germany and the United States ― provides an answer. Prior to last summer’s summ...
[Sen. John Kerry] Bridging the trust deficit with China

ViewpointsJan 17, 2011

China’s President Hu Jintao will make a historic trip to Washington this week, appearing alongside President Obama on a stage likely to be dominated by two issues: righting the vast U.S.-China trade ...
[Nouriel Roubini] Global risk and reward in New Year

ViewpointsJan 17, 2011

NEW YORK ― The outlook for the global economy in 2011 is, partly, for a persistence of the trends established in 2010. These are: an anemic, below-trend, U-shaped recovery in advanced economies, as f...
Japan, Korea must boost security cooperation

ViewpointsJan 16, 2011

The time is ripe for Japan and South Korea to enhance the quality of their security cooperation, without confining it to the field of defence exchanges. Defense Minister Toshimi Kitazawa and his Sou...
[Frida Ghitis] After carnage, Obama fails to move us

ViewpointsJan 16, 2011

When President Obama performed his “Comeback Kid” act late last year, pushing through Congress a number of important bills, observers marveled at the sudden transformation. The president had morphed ...
[Editorial] Who pays?

EditorialJan 16, 2011

On Thursday, the main opposition Democratic Party convened a general meeting of its lawmakers to adopt free child care and halved college tuition fees as part of its platform. The party’s leadership ...
[Editorial] Back to the 1970s?

EditorialJan 16, 2011

The Fair Trade Commission has launched an investigation to see whether domestic oil refiners are engaged in price-fixing or other unfair trade practices. The commission’s move follows President Lee M...
[William Pfaff] China’s military might poses questions

ViewpointsJan 16, 2011

PARIS ― Robert Gates’ official visit to Beijing, probably the last before he leaves the office of U.S. secretary of defense, was a frustrating affair, distinguished by China’s reiteration of its warn...
[Ching Cheong] Rocky ascent to China’s power peak

ViewpointsJan 16, 2011

The next 12 months will be a critical period for the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) as the top leadership prepares to step down and hand over the reins next year. It will be no less critical f...
[Bennett Ramberg] Israeli options on Iran nuclear program

ViewpointsJan 16, 2011

LOS ANGELES ― Revelations in former President George W. Bush’s recently published memoirs show that he declined an Israeli request to destroy Syria’s secret nuclear reactor in the spring of 2007. Whi...
[Margaret Carlson] Militant Palin keeps crosshairs on herself

ViewpointsJan 16, 2011

It’s a bad sign for civility when you can’t have a civil conversation about it. In the days since a deranged assassin gunned down Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and 19 other innocents ― six of who...
[Editorial] Immigration

EditorialJan 14, 2011

Korea was designated an “aging society” in 2000, the year in which those aged 65 or older accounted for more than 7 percent of its total population for the first time. The demographic group, which gr...
[Editorial] Rate raise

EditorialJan 14, 2011

Nothing is more appropriate than the “better late than never” idiom in evaluating the central bank’s latest rate increase. As the global financial crisis was setting in three years ago, the Bank of ...
A look back away from Haiti’s cloudy future

ViewpointsJan 14, 2011

Wednesday was a solemn and sorrowful day for everyone in Haiti and for all those who lost friends and loved ones on Jan. 12, 2010. The unsparing earthquake that struck one year ago killed 300,000 peo...
Slow the growth of the U.S. defense budget

ViewpointsJan 14, 2011

Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ plan to reduce the Pentagon budget over the next five years is appropriate, overdue and even brave. The politics and emotions will be intense. For a federal budget aw...