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Mon, June 5, 2023 | 02:12

World Taekwondo marks 50th anniversary of founding

World Taekwondo marks 50th anniversary of founding

World Taekwondo (WT) marks the 50th anniversary of its founding on May 28, 2023.

2023-05-28 16:36

US-South Korea nuclear agreement and its impact on the Korean Peninsula

US-South Korea nuclear agreement and its impact on the Korean Peninsula

The possibility of a nuclear attack by North Korean leader Kim Jong-un as well as his promise to “exponentially” grow his nation's nuclear arsenal have recently alarmed South Koreans.

2023-05-28 16:20

China and India have fewer people than UN thinks

China and India have fewer people than UN thinks

In April, the United Nations estimated that India had overtaken China as the world's most populous country. While the announcement received a great deal of media attention, India's 2024 census will likely reveal that the U.N.'s projections have been vastly overestimated.

2023-05-25 17:00

Can free and unified Korea create economy aimed toward its youth?

Can free and unified Korea create economy aimed toward its youth?

It has become a common practice for Koreans trying to explain their country to foreigners to remark that young Koreans are opposed to the unification of the Korean Peninsula because they fear a loss of job opportunities.

2023-05-25 17:00

Why US tech giants need Africa

Why US tech giants need Africa

Last year, Google's Equiano undersea cable began conveying terabytes of data per second to and from African shores. Valued at $1 billion, Equiano stretches from Western Europe to South Africa and has 20 times the capacity of the previous cables that served the continent. According to Google projections, the new cable has the potential to transform Africa's economy by creating...

2023-05-25 16:20

Macron's Gaullist foreign policy

Macron's Gaullist foreign policy

Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine last year galvanized the West against not only the Kremlin, but also other rivals, especially an increasingly assertive China. But last month, French President Emmanuel Macron headed to Beijing, where he declared that, on sensitive matters like Taiwan, Europe should not simply follow America's lead. The United States was not pleased, bu...

2023-05-24 16:05

Will Europe be the world's biggest loser?

Will Europe be the world's biggest loser?

The post-1945 era of global stability is over and gone. From the bipolar world of the Cold War to the American-dominated unipolar world that replaced it, we have long benefited from a sense of strategic order. Though there were many smaller wars (and even some larger ones), from Korea and Vietnam to the Middle East and Afghanistan, the international system remained generally ...

2023-05-23 16:20

High stakes of NATO's Vilnius Summit

High stakes of NATO's Vilnius Summit

With NATO's mid-July summit in Vilnius fast approaching, the question on everyone's mind is how to avoid another debacle concerning Ukraine's prospective membership in the alliance. When NATO leaders addressed the same issue in Bucharest 15 years ago, they failed to reach a credible agreement about how to address Ukraine and Georgia's aspirations for membership. We have all b...

2023-05-22 16:20

Shifting the inflation goalposts

Shifting the inflation goalposts

As the most aggressive wave of monetary tightening in four decades slows the world's largest economies, a growing number of analysts are questioning whether central banks should raise their inflation targets beyond the current 2 percent. After all, is it worth sacrificing growth just to gain an extra inch in the fight against inflation?

2023-05-21 16:10

Kevin McCarthy's embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu ignored his war on Israeli democracy

Kevin McCarthy's embrace of Benjamin Netanyahu ignored his war on Israeli democracy

When Kevin McCarthy visited Israel May 1, he aligned himself with a would-be autocrat who is assaulting Israel's democracy and splitting the country apart.

2023-05-18 16:20

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