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There is no war on Christmas. There are many.

’Tis the holiday season, meaning joy and happiness and disagreement and litigation. In other words, it’s time for this year’s dispatches from...

yesterday 20

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Stephen L. Carter

Another pandemic is inevitable, and the U.S. isn't ready

Every week or so, scientists issue another warning that the H5N1 bird flu is inching closer to exploding into a pandemic. Despite having contended...

yesterday 20

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F.d. Flam

Asia’s film industry should balance AI with human creativity

This is a pivotal moment for cinema, in which technology and art are converging. As senior programmer for the Women’s Empowerment section at the...

yesterday 10

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Andrijana Cvetkovikj

What will happen to China’s economy in 2025?

China’s gross domestic product growth slowed during the first three quarters of 2024, from 5.3% to 4.7% to 4.6%, raising fears that the country...

yesterday 20

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Huang Yiping

Chip cities rise in Japan’s fields of dreams

Rice paddies that lay fallow for decades in some of Japan’s most far-flung regions are now its hottest properties. As prices surge, these areas...

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Gearoid Reidy

Can lessons from Iraq's regime change be applied in Syria?

The contrast couldn’t have been more striking. On Dec. 9, while the West was still shell shocked from the fall of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria...

previous day 20

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Kuni Miyake

A race to the Blue House or the jail house

Being the president of South Korea is such an unforgiving job, it sometimes makes you wonder why anyone would want it. Since the end of martial law...

previous day 20

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Edo Naito

Why Trump can’t just end birthright citizenship

Donald Trump knows that in politics, sometimes you can win by losing. After making immigration reform a focus of his campaign, Trump, in an...

20.12.2024 30

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Barbara Mcquade

An OPEC for solar power isn’t going to work

What do you do in an energy industry that’s facing its first speed bumps after decades of meteoric growth? In the case of oil, the answer in 1960...

20.12.2024 30

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David Fickling

For Japan, whaling is intertwined with maritime sovereignty

Despite Denmark's recent rejection of Japan’s extradition request for anti-whaling activist Paul Watson, who was apprehended in July based on a...

20.12.2024 1

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Maxime Polleri

A Honda-Nissan merger is a slow-moving savior

It finally might be happening: A quarter century after Nissan’s bailout by Renault, six years after the shock arrest of savior-turned-fugitive...

19.12.2024 6

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Gearoid Reidy

From TikTok to Nvidia, the tech war is getting uglier

ByteDance’s options for TikTok in the U.S. are looking increasingly desolate, as the tech war between Washington and Beijing boils over. The...

19.12.2024 3

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Catherine Thorbecke

India’s budding chip industry: A cause for cautious optimism

India aims to revolutionize the semiconductor industry by becoming its global hub — yet another bold ambition for the emerging power. Gaining a...

19.12.2024 5

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Eri Ikeda

Europe needs to swiftly fulfill its aid pledges to Ukraine

A note to Europe’s leaders: When it comes to sending sufficient aid to help Ukraine end Russia’s invasion, if not now, when? In October, I visited...

18.12.2024 20

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Marc Champion

Australia shows how smart diplomacy is done

Three cheers for Australia — really and literally. Last week, the Canberra government completed an impressive trifecta of diplomatic...

18.12.2024 1

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Brad Glosserman

Yoon’s martial law order divides South Korea, may alter foreign policy direction

South Korea has a very vibrant and proactive civil society. All you need to do is walk around central Seoul on a Saturday or Sunday near city hall,...

18.12.2024 2

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Stephen R. Nagy

The Trump-Xi bromance has a chance in 2025

Xi Jinping and Donald Trump's bromance could be rekindled in 2025, if both sides play their cards right. This is positive and would help create the...

18.12.2024 1

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Karishma Vaswani

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