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Saturday 16/February/2019 15:35 PM

The looming Taiwan crisis

Much of lasting significance happened in 1979. There was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and Iran’s Islamic Revolution, which brought to power a regime...

Saturday 16/February/2019 15:18 PM

What Venezuela tells Europe about Russia

On January 23, National Assembly President Juan Guaidó swore himself in as Venezuela’s interim president before thousands of citizens, in an open...

Saturday 16/February/2019 14:58 PM

India’s vote-buying budget

One sign that an Indian general election is imminent, and that the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is readying its campaign pitch, is the government’s...

Wednesday 13/February/2019 15:46 PM

A mixed economic bag in 2019

After the synchronized global economic expansion of 2017 came the asynchronous growth of 2018, when most countries other than the United States started to...

Wednesday 13/February/2019 14:57 PM

Regulating speech in the new public square

Today, debates about public issues play out on social media, people receive their news via digital platforms, and politicians pitch their policies using...

Wednesday 13/February/2019 14:26 PM

The mirage of a global euro

One of the great claims made for the euro was that it would rival the US dollar as a second global reserve currency. These hopes have failed to materialize....

Tuesday 12/February/2019 15:28 PM

France and Germany must change the game

Late last month, 56 years after French President Charles de Gaulle and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer signed the Élysée Treaty, the current leaders of...

Tuesday 12/February/2019 15:11 PM

Is Japan’s sun rising?

When I participated in the Chatham House/Daiwa Research Institute conference on the post-Brexit Japan-UK relationship in Tokyo last month, it was my first...