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COMMENTARY

Jul 2, 2005

What about the billions given?

By David Howell

LONDON — The popular pressure being mobilized and brought to bear on the Group of Eight countries, including both Britain and Japan, to increase aid substantially to Africa and cancel poorer countries' debt, is certainly having an impact. But it is not quite the one at which the campaigners were aiming....

COMMENTARY

Jun 30, 2005

Blaming Pakistan won't help

By Farhan Bokhari

ISLAMABAD -- The latest diplomatic rift between Pakistan and Afghanistan speaks volumes about the underlying frictions among both countries and the United States in the so-called war on terror.

COMMENTARY

Jun 29, 2005

India: U.S. ally or independent power?

By Brahma Chellaney

NEW DELHI -- The courtship between the world's most powerful and most populous democracies is in full swing, with a new international poll showing that at a time when anti-Americanism has spread across the globe more people in India have a positive view of the United States than in any other nation surveyed....

COMMENTARY

Jun 29, 2005

A tidal wave of optimism

By Tom Plate

LOS ANGELES -- Talk about an ocean of optimism! Here's a positive current for you if there ever was one: A close friend -- whom I dub The Very Successful Korean-American Businessman (VSKAB), who doesn't want his name to be used (but whose last name is Kim like several million other Korean-Americans),...

COMMENTARY

Jun 28, 2005

Pitching a Japan that can

By Keizo Nabeshima

A clash of interests among major U.N. member states is clouding the prospects for reform of the Security Council. While Japan, Brazil, Germany and India, known as the Group of Four (G4), seek permanent membership on the council, the Uniting for Consensus coalition, including Italy, South Korea and Pakistan,...

COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM NEW YORK

Jun 27, 2005

Shining a light on Turkish-Japanese ties

By Hiroaki Sato

NEW YORK -- Selcuk Esenbel was in town. For many years now a professor of history at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Selcuk was, when I met her more than 30 years ago, studying Japanese history at Columbia University. The fruit of that study is her 1998 tome, which she gave me during her previous visit...

COMMENTARY

Jun 27, 2005

Perceptions that defy amity

By Kiroku Hanai

On a recent Korea Air flight from Narita to Inchon, South Korea, I was surprised when they showed images of air routes on the in-flight video system. The Tok-do islets in the Sea of Japan, the source of a Japan-South Korea territorial dispute, were shown as prominently as Tokyo and Seoul. The islets,...

COMMENTARY / World

Jun 27, 2005

Will South Korea's economy follow Japan's?

By Christopher Lingle

GUATEMALA CITY -- Despite numerous economic stimulus packages during his tenure in office, South Korean President Roh Moo Hyun must regret his promise to oversee annual economic growth of about 7 percent during his five-year term. As it is, the South Korean economy grew in the first quarter of 2005 at...

COMMENTARY / COUNTERPOINT

Jun 26, 2005

Opportunities go begging as the blind follow dissembling blind

By Roger Pulvers

Japan and Australia are natural partners.

COMMENTARY

Jun 26, 2005

The beginning of empathy?

By Brad Glosserman

HONOLULU -- The strains in the Japan-South Korea relationship are far too deep-rooted for any single summit meeting to assuage. Rather, the objective of any summit should be setting the proper tone for bilateral relations. By this yardstick, the meeting Monday between Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi...

COMMENTARY / World

Jun 26, 2005

Call them illegal, but they're also heroic

By Domenico Maceri

SANTA MARIA, Calif. -- "Being that you are an alleged expert in language, you should know the difference between legal and illegal," the reader stated in his e-mail, as he reacted angrily to one of my articles on immigration.

COMMENTARY

Jun 26, 2005

New deal between Beijing, Hong Kong

By Frank Ching

HONG KONG -- Almost two years ago, on July 1, 2003, well over half a million people marched through the streets of Hong Kong to protest against a national-security bill that they feared threatened their rights and freedoms. The massive demonstration shook the Hong Kong government to its foundations and...

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