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Espionage and tariffs can’t tarnish TSMC’s crown

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Catherine Thorbecke

No, Trump is not the ‘transactional’ president he feigns

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Richard K. Sherwin

Xi steals a page from Mao’s foreign-policy playbook

Xi steals a page from Mao’s foreign-policy playbook

Amid the disruption to the global economic order caused by the Trump administration’s policy of reciprocal tariffs, the Xi Jinping administration...

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Kazuko Kojima

Stagflation is hitting Russia’s war economy

Stagflation is hitting Russia’s war economy

The Russian economy is not collapsing, but it is stagnant and suffering high inflation. And this economic decline could be a tipping point, because...

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Anders Åslund

RFK Jr.’s mRNA decision may be his worst yet

RFK Jr.’s mRNA decision may be his worst yet

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s decision to cancel $500 million in grants and contracts for mRNA vaccine development jeopardizes the...

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Lisa Jarvis

Japan gets serious about attracting world-class researchers

Japan gets serious about attracting world-class researchers

Japan’s scientific and technological future is at a crossroads. After decades of economic stagnation, a record low birth rate of 1.15 children per...

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Yuko Kakazu

Why Hiroshima must keep being commemorated

Why Hiroshima must keep being commemorated

Nobody should ever say that it was a good call, but it was the only one a U.S. President was likely to make in 1945. The decision to drop an atomic...

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Max Hastings

Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings necessary?

Were the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings necessary?

The order to attack Japanese cities with atomic bombs was issued on July 25, 1945, by acting U.S. Army Chief of Staff Thomas Handy to Gen. Carl...

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Edo Naito

The Japan-Australia frigate sale is a big deal. Here’s why.

The Japan-Australia frigate sale is a big deal. Here’s why.

This week, the Australian government announced that Japan has won the hard-fought competition to provide the Royal Australian Navy’s next surface...

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Michael Macarthur Bosack

The true costs of Trump’s economic agenda

The true costs of Trump’s economic agenda

The first six months of Donald Trump’s second presidency have been marked by a flurry of executive orders and legislative activity unparalleled in...

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Kaushik Basu

Moving nuclear subs isn’t something you announce on social media

Moving nuclear subs isn’t something you announce on social media

Over the last week, two political leaders have exchanged barbs underlining the powerful nuclear arsenals of their respective nations. It was not...

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James Stavridis

Trump’s tariffs defy the doomsayers — so far

Trump’s tariffs defy the doomsayers — so far

Aug. 1 has come and it marks the beginning of U.S. President Donald Trump’s bold attempt to remake the global economy. I can’t tell who is howling...

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Brad Glosserman

Nuclear destruction through the eyes of a 10-year-old

Nuclear destruction through the eyes of a 10-year-old

Three years ago, I traveled with my then 10-year-old son, Max, to Hiroshima, a city I fell in love with 30 years ago while interviewing survivors...

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Michael Judge