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COMMENTARY

Feb 16, 2002

U.S.-Korea policy: now what?

By Ralph Cossa

HONOLULU -- Has U.S. President George W. Bush's decision to include North Korea in his "axis of evil" foreclosed the possibility of serious dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang? Not necessarily. U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell maintains that Washington's earlier "any time, any place, without...

COMMENTARY

Feb 16, 2002

Enron's pain will lead to future gain

By Doug Bandow

WASHINGTON -- With the rubble still smoldering from Enron's bankruptcy, the U.S. Congress is attempting to score points by interrogating the international energy company's managers. Former CEO Jeffrey Skilling faced rough going before a congressional hearing; only by invoking the Fifth Amendment did...

EDITORIALS

Feb 15, 2002

Health-care reform before higher costs

Acting under the initiative of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, the government and the ruling parties have agreed that salaried workers should pay 30 percent of their medical expenses, or 10 percent more than they do now, beginning in April 2003. But the agreement came at a heavy price: a bruising political...

EDITORIALS

Feb 14, 2002

Too clever by half?

The limits of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's strategy to isolate, undermine and eliminate Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat were plainly evident last week. Although recent events have given Israel the upper hand in the struggle against Palestinians and Islamic extremists -- the two...

COMMENTARY

Feb 14, 2002

Forget Marx -- Beijing now looks to U.S.

By Frank Ching

HONG KONG -- If imitation is the highest form of flattery, Washington should feel highly complimented by Beijing. Over and over, China has shown that America is its role model and that its goal is to be more like the United States.

COMMENTARY

Feb 14, 2002

Force alone can't beat terror

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON -- U.S. President George W Bush's State of the Union message to Congress was unequivocal about the need to eradicate terrorists wherever they may be hiding. After the horrific incidents of Sept. 11, Americans and their friends must support policies that will make a repetition of such incidents...

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 14, 2002

North Korea: signs of trouble but no evil

By David Wall

CAMBRIDGE, England -- I have just returned from a week visit to North Korea, one of the countries on U.S. President George W. Bush's "axis of evil." I was one of three British academics running a workshop under a new technical assistance program inaugurated when the two countries opened diplomatic relations...

EDITORIALS

Feb 13, 2002

Reading between the lines

According to the financial mandarins of the Group of Seven, the global economy has turned the corner. Despite recession in Japan and the United States, the world's leading economies, and the shock created by the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the international outlook has improved. The statement released...

COMMENTARY

Feb 13, 2002

Wrong cure for Japan's economic ills

By Gregory Clark

So U.S. President George W. Bush has decided the future of Asia depends on overcoming Japan's puzzling, decade-long economic stagnation. But do he or his advisers understand what is really wrong with that economy?

COMMENTARY / World

Feb 13, 2002

Southeast Asia receives terrorism wake-up call

By Harvey Stockwin

HONG KONG -- The wake-up call has been loud and clear. As the alarm sounded, it confirmed that terrorism in Southeast Asia is a problem in need of attention. The most urgent wake-up call did not come from the southern Philippines, where around 650 U.S. troops are now being deployed as Washington opens...

EDITORIALS

Feb 11, 2002

Space business still awaiting liftoff

The second H-2A rocket, which is touted as the leading player in Japan's space development at the beginning of the 21st century, was successfully launched last Monday, deploying one of the two probes it was carrying into orbit. Following the successful launching of the first H-2A rocket in August 2001,...

COMMENTARY

Feb 11, 2002

Blame economy for weak yen

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON -- An article by Haruhiko Kuroda, vice finance minister for international affairs, appeared in the Financial Times on Jan. 23 under the headline "The yen's fundamental weakness." Perhaps it should have been titled "the fundamental weaknesses of the Japanese economy."

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