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COMMENTARY / World

Nov 15, 2009

Food security must rank with climate efforts

By Jose Manuel Barroso

BRUSSELS — There are plenty of summits to choose from this year, but the World Summit on Food Security deserves not to be lost in the crowd. This meeting in Rome from Monday to Wednesday provides badly needed political momentum to three linked issues that rank among the most challenging of the current...

COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT

Nov 15, 2009

Children pay the price when parents put their own feelings first

By Roger Pulvers

It is hard enough for a child to be shuffled back and forth for scheduled stays like a puck over the ice that separates divorced parents. Difficulty turns to tragedy when one parent takes it into their head to abduct the child and keep it out of reach of the other.

COMMENTARY

Nov 14, 2009

China-India tensions rising

By Brahma Chellaney

NEW DELHI — The India-China relationship has entered choppy waters due to a perceptible hardening in the Chinese stance. Anti-India rhetoric in the state-run Chinese media has intensified, even as China has stepped up military pressure along the disputed Himalayan frontier through cross-border incursions....

COMMENTARY

Nov 13, 2009

Highlighting the return to a neglected region

By Frank Ching

HONG KONG — U.S. President Barack Obama plans to include the prime minister of Myanmar (aka Burma), a country long shunned by Washington, when he meets this week with leaders of the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN).

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 13, 2009

Obama's Asian occasions

By Charles E. Morrison

This week Barack Obama begins his first trip to Asia as U.S. head of state. His visit to Singapore for the annual Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation meeting plus additional stops in Japan, China and South Korea offer an opportunity for the president to give further dynamism to America's relationships...

COMMENTARY

Nov 12, 2009

Emissions cap-and-trade as policy?

By Shinji Fukukawa

Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama, at the United Nations Summit on Climate Change held Sept. 22, stated Japan's pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) 25 percent from 1990 levels by 2020, which is premised on "all the major economies" agreeing on ambitious targets.

COMMENTARY

Nov 12, 2009

APEC remains toothless

By Gregory Clark

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) grouping will hold its annual summit meeting in Singapore this weekend, with the leaders of its 21 member-nations expected to attend. But do we really need yet another high-level global talk-fest?

COMMENTARY

Nov 12, 2009

Re-energizing America's role in trade talks

By Michael Richardson

International trade has been an engine of growth for many Asian countries, enabling them to create jobs and raise living standards faster than in countries elsewhere in the world that were unready to take advantage of surging trade opportunities.

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 11, 2009

A good time to remember the ANZUS alliance's fate

By Brad Glosserman

HONOLULU — The headlines associated with U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates' recent visit to Japan notwithstanding, relations between Washington and Tokyo are not as strained as they may appear . . . at least not yet. But there is no question that improper handling of a number of sensitive issues...

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 11, 2009

Yet another 'Battle of Okinawa'

By Gavan Mccormack

CANBERRA — Elections in August gave Japan a new government, headed by Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama. In electing him and his Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ), the Japanese people, like the American people less than a year earlier, were opting for change. Remarkably, however, what followed on the part...

COMMENTARY

Nov 10, 2009

Enough concessions on Taiwan

By Hisahiko Okazaki

For those who are concerned that democratic Taiwan should continue to have the freedom to choose its own future, President Barack Obama's coming visit to Beijing brings back the memory of a regrettable episode during President Bill Clinton's visit to China in June 1998.

COMMENTARY / World

Nov 10, 2009

U.S.-Japan collaboration on high-speed rail

By Daniel Kliman

PRINCETON, N.J. — Traveling at up to 300 kph and boasting an impeccable safety record, the Shinkansen exemplifies Japan's technological prowess. It could also become a new frontier in the U.S-Japan partnership.

One of the many entrances to the Kabukicho neighborhood in Tokyo’s Shinjuku Ward.

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

An illustration features the Japanese signs for "ganbare" (good luck) and the Deaflympics, which will be held between Nov. 15 and 26.

A century of Deaf sport finds its moment in Tokyo

By Kathryn Wortley

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