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COMMENTARY / World

Jan 18, 2003

Coping with a grayer world

By Ramesh Thakur

Like globalization, population aging is a universal force with the power to shape the future. By 2050 the number of people aged 60 and over in the world will increase from 600 million today to almost 2 billion. In Japan, the proportion of the population aged 65 or over will climb from 17.2 percent in...

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Jan 16, 2003

Japan plods path of isolation

By Brad Glosserman

HONOLULU — Japan continues to be the odd man out in Northeast Asia. While the other states in the region have been forging ties and building networks with each other — even North Korea — Japan has lagged behind. Tokyo could be marginalized in its own neighborhood. That risk has motivated Japanese...

COMMENTARY

Jan 16, 2003

Silence isn't golden for Korean peace

By Harvey Stockwin

HONG KONG -- As the latest Korean crisis has developed, one contradiction has been obvious: The Bush administration refused to talk with North Korea until Pyongyang abandoned nuclear blackmail and returned to honoring all the treaties and agreements that it has recently repudiated. Yet the Bush administration...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 16, 2003

Berlin-Paris partnership faces challenges as EU grows larger

By Jonathan Fenby

LONDON -- Forty years ago this month, President Charles de Gaulle of France and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer of West Germany signed a historic agreement to consecrate the end of 75 years of conflict between their two nations. The Franco-German Friendship Treaty came six years after the establishment of...

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Jan 14, 2003

Afghanistan's fate holds lessons for Iraq

By Farhan Bokhari

ISLAMABAD -- As prospects for a U.S.-led war on Iraq loom larger, Afghanistan faces an increasingly uncertain future -- more than a year after the United States intervened in that country. Many analysts believe the fate of Afghanistan may determine whether and when the major powers should intervene in...

COMMENTARY

Jan 13, 2003

Dealing with multiple crises

By Keizo Nabeshima

The world faces a double threat posed by Iraqi and North Korean weapons of mass destruction and missiles, a peril no less serious than the terrorist scare following the 9/11 attacks. According to the Chinese zodiac, this is the year of the sheep, a nonviolent animal, but past years of the sheep have...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 13, 2003

Britain's far right poses a rising threat

By Glyn Ford

BRUSSELS -- The press in England has had a field day over the past 20 years chronicling the rise of the Continent's far right. The first chance came in the early 1980s with the emergence of France's National Front led by Jean-Marie Le Pen, a man who believes the Americans built the gas chambers in the...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 13, 2003

DDT our best weapon in war on malaria

By Cesar Chavez

NEW YORK -- A serious debate is raging over the use of DDT to combat malaria. As one of the world's most serious tropical diseases, malaria kills more than a million people a year -- most of them young children. To a great extent, success in controlling malaria is owed to the use of DDT in spraying houses...

COMMENTARY

Jan 13, 2003

Contain the nuclear genie

By Brad Glosserman

HONOLULU -- Some people are scratching their heads over the standoff over North Korea's clandestine nuclear-weapons development program. They point out that by the early 1990s, it was thought that Pyongyang already had one or two nuclear warheads. They note that the fundamental strategic calculus has...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 13, 2003

Thais create Buddhist studies landmark

By George Sioris

CHIANG MAI -- Against a background of terror, conflicts and violence worldwide, during times when consumerism and materialism have been elevated as never before on pedestals surrounded by a divine aura, a small group of modest but dedicated Thai scholars, monks and nuns have worked quietly and efficiently...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 13, 2003

How long will U.S. ignore Pakistan threat?

By Gautaman Bhaskaran

MADRAS, India -- The world entered the New Year with a greater fear of a nuclear catastrophe. Adding to the alarm over North Korea's disclosure that it possesses atomic weapons was Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's assertion that he was ready to use them during heightened tension with India early...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 12, 2003

War deadline weeks away

By Michael O'Hanlon

WASHINGTON -- When will U.S. President George W. Bush have to decide whether to go to war against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein?

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