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COMMENTARY

Jan 20, 2003

Call for U.S. conscription is misplaced

By Doug Bandow

WASHINGTON -- New York Democratic Rep. Charles Rangel opposed the U.S. congressional resolution supporting war in Iraq. He lost. So now he wants to draft young people into the coming conflict to ensure that Americans "shoulder the burden of the war equally."

EDITORIALS

Jan 20, 2003

Shenzhen's promise for China

Twenty-two years ago, the sleepy southern Chinese city of Shenzhen became the test case for China's future. It was designated a "special economic zone," a laboratory for economic reforms that would transform the nation. Today, Shenzhen is again in the forefront of change in China. This time, the city...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 20, 2003

Establishing confidence in Northeast Asia

By R. Amarjargal

Recent developments on the Korean Peninsula clearly indicate the need for establishing a political mechanism to maintain regional security.

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 19, 2003

Calls to revive military draft are off base

By Richard Halloran

HONOLULU -- The prospect of a war on two fronts against North Korea and Iraq in addition to the battle against terror and the new campaign for homeland security has sparked calls for a return to the U.S. military draft.

COMMENTARY

Jan 19, 2003

eo 20030119hc.xml Halting the small-arms trade

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON -- On New Year's Eve two teenage girls seeking fresh air from a party in Birmingham were killed in a shooting incident. Over 30 shots, some by a submachine gun, were fired in what seems to have been a shootout between rival gangs. The incident has led to demands that the crime of possessing an...

EDITORIALS

Jan 19, 2003

ed 20030119a1.xml EDITORIAL What's in a loanword?

The complaint is a familiar one: English is putting the squeeze on other languages and those who are getting squeezed don't like it. Up till now, this has been most noticeably a grievance of the French and the Germans. Three years ago, the French Finance Ministry even went so far as to issue government...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 19, 2003

eo 20030119a1.xml SYSTEM INHERENTLY UNFAIR Calls to revive military draft are off base

By Richard Halloran

HONOLULU -- The prospect of a war on two fronts against North Korea and Iraq in addition to the battle against terror and the new campaign for homeland security has sparked calls for a return to the U.S. military draft.

COMMENTARY

Jan 19, 2003

Halting the small-arms trade

By Hugh Cortazzi

LONDON -- On New Year's Eve two teenage girls seeking fresh air from a party in Birmingham were killed in a shooting incident. Over 30 shots, some by a submachine gun, were fired in what seems to have been a shootout between rival gangs. The incident has led to demands that the crime of possessing an...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 18, 2003

Beijing can learn from Tokyo's mistakes

By Christopher Lingle

GUATEMALA CITY -- As Beijing develops a reliance on fiscal spending to boost economic growth, a mushrooming fiscal deficit and ballooning public-sector debt will weaken China's long-term economic prospects. This is because economic growth bought with increased government spending is unsustainable and...

COMMENTARY / World

Jan 18, 2003

China cedes leadership chance

By David Wall

CAMBRIDGE, England -- Although you could argue that the current U.S. leadership caused the nuclear crisis on the Korean Peninsula, it is not really an American crisis. Whatever weapons North Korea has, biological, chemical or nuclear, it does not yet have the means of delivering them to the United States....

EDITORIALS

Jan 18, 2003

Ready for the worst

The arrest of several individuals in London on suspicion of producing the poison ricin has reawakened concerns about bioterrorism. Biological warfare has a long history; the first recorded use occurred in 1346, when Tartars catapulted corpses infected with plague into a city they held under siege. Yet,...

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...

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

Kabukicho: Tokyo’s ‘stadium of desire’

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Japan’s sauna movement: Relax, refresh, repeat

By Greg Dvorak

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