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COMMENTARY / World

Aug 13, 2003

Mideast violence is forecast

By Ramzy Baroud

DOHA, Qatar -- Despite the positive spin that optimistic politicians put on current developments in the Arab-Israeli conflict, a crashing storm threatens the shores of the Mediterranean. Such a prediction can easily be read over the events surrounding the Middle East peace process in the last month alone....

COMMENTARY

Aug 13, 2003

U.S. can return to the moral high road

By Ralph Cossa

KUALA LUMPUR -- On Aug. 6, peace activists from around the world flocked to Hiroshima to pray for peace and remember those who died when the first nuclear bomb was dropped on that city 58 years ago. More subdued ceremonies marked the anniversary of the second, and we all hope last, use of nuclear weapons...

COMMENTARY

Aug 12, 2003

Test for Japanese diplomacy

By Keizo Nabeshima

The standoff over North Korea's nuclear-arms development is entering a new stage as officials of six nations -- the United States, North Korea, South Korea, Japan, Russia and China -- prepare to meet soon in Beijing to discuss the threat. At Pyongyang's insistence, the U.S. will hold direct talks with...

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 10, 2003

Chaotic images of Indonesia

By Richard Halloran

HONOLULU -- Turmoil in Indonesia was underscored Tuesday when a terrorist bomb exploded in a hotel in Jakarta killing at least 14 people and wounding about 150 more. It has added to the already surging concern of American officials in Washington and at the U.S. Pacific Command's headquarters in Hawaii,...

COMMENTARY

Aug 10, 2003

U.S. hardly stoking fear of China threat

By Frank Ching

HONG KONG -- The Pentagon's latest report on the military power of the People's Republic of China has, predictably, angered Beijing. But a careful reading shows that the language used is by no means provocative.

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 10, 2003

Japanese nuclear arsenal looks unlikely

By Jeff Thompson

WASHINGTON -- Speculation is rife about whether North Korea's possession of nuclear weapons could drive Japan to develop a nuclear arsenal. Some opinion leaders have even suggested that America should exploit this prospect to scare China into resolving the North Korea nuclear crisis. However, the reality...

COMMENTARY

Aug 9, 2003

Political world prepares for fall showdown

By Kenzo Uchida

The first half of 2003 was volatile both internationally and domestically. Severe acute respiratory syndrome hit China, other Asian countries and Canada at the beginning of the year and spread around the world. Then, in the Middle East, war broke out when the United States and Britain invaded Iraq, overthrew...

COMMENTARY / World / GUEST FORUM

Aug 9, 2003

War on terror requires a stronger UNSC

By Richard Barron Parker

In a world where groups of thugs can take over failed states and modern technology enables small groups of fanatics to kill millions of people, more intervention by the international community in the sovereignty of individual nations will be necessary. Such intervention cannot be left to the United States...

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 9, 2003

U.S. need not fear the ICC

By Alejandro M. Garro and Cesar Chelala

NEW YORK -- In recent years regional courts have been set up in Europe and the Americas to deal with the most serious human rights abuses committed by governments. International "ad hoc" criminal tribunals have been set up to deal with atrocities and massive killings committed in the former Yugoslavia,...

COMMENTARY / World

Aug 8, 2003

No symmetry in annexations of Sikkim and Tibet

By George Sioris

CHIANG MAI, Thailand -- In my last column, and in the aftermath of the recent high-level Sino-Indian talks in Beijing, we dealt with the issue of Tibet from a historical perspective. A parallel analytical exercise with regard to Sikkim would perhaps prove equally interesting.

COMMENTARY

Aug 7, 2003

Nukes still won't help Japan

By Brad Glosserman

HIROSHIMA -- The walk from my hotel to the conference center took me past the Atomic Dome and through the Peace Park that commemorates the atomic bombing of Aug. 6, 1945. Friday morning, several fire trucks were parked in front of the Children's Peace Monument; someone had torched two display cases that...

COMMENTARY

Aug 6, 2003

Too early to toast Kim's cooperation

By Ralph Cossa

HONOLULU -- Let's not open up the champagne too quickly! The announcement that North Korea finally has agreed to attend multilateral talks "to resolve the nuclear issue" is good news indeed . . . if they actually show up at the yet to be scheduled meeting. But sitting down at the table, as important...

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