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EDITORIALS

Oct 25, 2002

Texas hospitality for Mr. Jiang

Chinese President Jiang Zemin is visiting the United States. The high point of the trip is a stop at President George W. Bush's Crawford, Texas, ranch, where the two men will indulge in summit rituals. The presidents will probably spend more time eating barbecue and posing for photographs than they will...

COMMENTARY / World

Oct 24, 2002

'Tax evaders' steal the talk of Shanghai

By David Wall

SEOUL -- A little over a month ago I was on the way to Shanghai to spend a month teaching at Fudan University. I read an article in a Hong Kong newspaper that said the topic on everyone's lips in China was the upcoming 16th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. This is the congress at which...

COMMENTARY / WASHINGTON UPDATE

Oct 24, 2002

The final gasps of the 'do nothing' 107th Congress

By Bob Keefe

WASHINGTON -- It isn't much of a surprise that the 107th Congress is ending without much of a record of accomplishment. It had a spurt of success in its early months, passing President George W. Bush's mammoth tax cut and pushing through a respectable education program, but little has been accomplished...

EDITORIALS

Oct 24, 2002

Mr. Koizumi's answers lack candor

The current extraordinary Diet session, dubbed an "economy Diet," has its work cut out: debating measures for economic recovery and banking reform. As it turned out, the Lower House's opening debates on Monday and Tuesday did not measure up to that billing. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's answers...

COMMENTARY / World

Oct 24, 2002

Securing consensus on Iraq

By John Barry Kotch

SEOUL -- As the U.N. Security Council debate on Iraq moves forward, precedent is pertinent. For Korea a half-century ago, it took three Security Council resolutions to authorize and organize an armed U.N. response; for Kuwait in 1990, more than a "baker's dozen."

EDITORIALS

Oct 23, 2002

Ireland gives the EU a go-ahead

I f at first you don't succeed, try again. That appears to have been the thinking of Irish politicians in their battle to secure public endorsement of the Nice Treaty, which provides the ground rules for expanding the European Union. Last weekend, a second ballot won popular support. Ireland's change...

EDITORIALS

Oct 22, 2002

A disappointing policy speech

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's policy speech to the Diet last Friday can be summed up in a word: disappointing. It was disappointing particularly because he failed to explain in plain language how he intends to prevent a dangerous economic downturn. People know first hand that things are getting...

COMMENTARY / World

Oct 22, 2002

North Korea's last gambit

By Victor D. Cha

WASHINGTON -- North Korea's surprise announcement of a secret nuclear-weapons program has thrown cold water on a recent warming of relations with South Korea and Japan that included family reunions, rejuvenated economic cooperation and, in particular, a stunning admission of past misdeeds against Japanese...

EDITORIALS

Oct 21, 2002

And now to work in South Asia

Pakistan and India have both held important elections in recent weeks. In Pakistan, the government party won as expected. In Kashmir, the pro-India party that has ruled the restive region for decades was routed. Even more important than the results is the fact that the votes were held at all. Now, both...

COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA

Oct 21, 2002

Contributing to the spread of democracy

By Jean-pierre Lehmann

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- In a recent editorial, the Financial Times admonished the European Union and its member states, "(for) having consistently failed to grasp the broad historic significance of the fall of the Berlin Wall nearly 13 years ago." It is in fact an awesome event, the significance of...

COMMENTARY

Oct 21, 2002

Keeping faith with the U.S.

By Keizo Nabeshima

Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi plans to meet with U.S. President George W. Bush on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum to be held in Mexico later this month. Koizumi sets great store on Japan-U.S. friendship. In a speech to the Council on Foreign Relations in New York in September,...

COMMENTARY

Oct 21, 2002

It's not what Bush says but how he says it

By Brad Glosserman

HONOLULU -- The controversy swirling around President George W. Bush's foreign policy is remarkable for two things. The first is the consensus regarding its content. Observers generally agree that the Bush foreign policy is muscular, unilateralist and dominated by political realists who practice power...

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