Commentary Jul 19, 2009
Like it or not, China is not about to go away
by Tom Plate
KUALA LUMPUR — There was never the slightest doubt in the mind of a single reputable expert anywhere in the world that China was a caldron of ethnic unrest ready to boil over. Nor was there the slightest possibility that the masters of the ...
Commentary / World Jun 4, 2009
by Michael Meyer
PRAGUE — A quiz for history buffs. Twenty years ago — on June 4, 1989 — three events shaped a fateful year. Which do you remember most vividly, and which most changed the world?: (a) the bloody denouement of the protests on Tiananmen Square; ...
Commentary May 24, 2009
An offer Pyongyang can't refuse
by Hisahiko Okazaki
Past U.S.-North Korea negotiations on nuclear issues can be roughly classified into two types. The first type relates to the Framework Agreement of the Clinton administration. The basic assessment from documents of the period was that a military confrontation might result in nearly 1 million ...