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COMMENTARY / World

Oct 1, 2000

The right WTO strategy for the wrong reasons

By Philip J. Cunningham

U.S. President Bill Clinton's victory in getting Congress in line on the WTO question was capped by a triumphant New York Times Op-Ed piece by him about why China should be in the World Trade Organization. There are many good reasons why, but Clinton's argument that this will "save" China and make it...

COMMENTARY / World

Oct 1, 2000

Make or break for the Oslo Declaration

By Moshe Ben-Yaacov

The task of achieving a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians is at a critical crossroads.

EDITORIALS

Sep 30, 2000

Denmark says 'No, thank you'

The Danish people voted this week against adopting the euro. With nearly 90 percent of eligible voters going to the polls, Denmark rejected the European Union's single currency by a narrow 53-47 margin. The result is a bitter disappointment for the country's political and business establishment, which...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 30, 2000

U.S. should drain strategic oil reserves dry

By Jerry Taylor

With gasoline and home heating-oil prices continuing to shoot skyward, U.S. President Bill Clinton decided late last week to flood the market with federally stockpiled oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. The SPR holds 582 million barrels of unrefined crude oil, a stock large enough to replace 37...

COMMENTARY

Sep 30, 2000

Russian contempt for Japan nothing new

By Ryuichiro Hosokawa

I have never been able to feel any sense of affinity with the political leaders of Russia, let alone those of the former Soviet Union. The reason why may be illustrated by the following incident, which occurred when Nikita Khrushchev was the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party and head of...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 30, 2000

Time to reassess the nuclear-energy option

By Gaia Hoerner

Safety and cost competitiveness: These two factors are clearly incompatible when it comes to nuclear energy. Yet these were some of the key words used by the government and the nuclear industry to promote nuclear energy.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 30, 2000

Vietnam proves a reluctant reformer

By David Wall

CAMBRIDGE, England -- Foreign investors have not been showing any confidence in Vietnam's Doi Moi (liberalization) program recently. Socialist market economics, Vietnamese-style, have not proved as attractive as the Chinese version. After the initial euphoria of the early 1990s, when foreign companies...

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 30, 2000

A final act for Milosevic?

By Gwynne Dyer

LONDON -- "We are talking about political fraud and blatant stealing of votes," said Yugoslav opposition leader Vojislav Kostunica Sept. 26, after it was announced that he had not defeated Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic in the first round of the presidential election on Sunday. "The victory is...

EDITORIALS

Sep 29, 2000

Mr. Mori's missing road map

Six months after he took office, what is Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori aiming to achieve? Equally important, what does the opposition have to say about his policy -- or the lack thereof? These questions went largely unanswered during the Lower House debates that took place this week. The exchanges proved...

COMMENTARY

Sep 29, 2000

An Olympic Games message of peace

By Minoru Tada

A Japanese media report on the Sydney Olympics said the Games marked "the end of a war-filled century." Japan's women athletes put in brilliant performances at the Games, as if to remove dark shadows of World War II, which imposed terrible suffering on countless women.

COMMENTARY / World

Sep 29, 2000

Warmer ties do not signal U.S. tilt toward India

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

NEW DELHI -- It may be still too early to conclude that there is a definite American tilt toward India, but there are strong signs that Washington is fed up with Islamabad's obsession with Kashmir that has has forced Pakistan to throw logic and caution to the wind.

EDITORIALS

Sep 28, 2000

Police promises are not enough

A feature of the National Police Agency's new white paper for 2000 is its recognition of the need to repair the tarnished image of Japan's scandal-tainted police forces. In a preface titled "Aiming to Regain the Nation's Trust," the document for the first time ever in a report of this kind tackles the...

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

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By Hanako Lowry

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