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COMMENTARY / THE VIEW FROM MOSCOW

Mar 6, 2002

Bush's incendiary pulpit

By Constantine Pleshakov

MOSCOW -- It would be interesting to know who attended U.S. President George W. Bush's talk at Tsinghua University in Beijing on Feb. 22. Obviously planned as a mixture of calculated propaganda and heartfelt preaching, the talk targeted Chinese youth who hopefully will make China democratic, tolerant...

EDITORIALS

Mar 6, 2002

Shady politico-bureaucratic ties

A Foreign Ministry investigation of influence-peddling by Liberal Democratic Party legislator Muneo Suzuki has revealed an appalling pattern of politico-bureaucratic collusion. A report released Monday indicates that Mr. Suzuki, a self-styled foreign policy guru, behaved like a "shadow foreign minister"...

EDITORIALS

Mar 5, 2002

The ever-widening Atlantic gap

There has long been a divergence of views between the United States and its European allies, but the distance between the two appears to be expanding. The most recent contretemps concerns expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, but the roots of the dispute are more fundamental. The real...

COMMENTARY

Mar 5, 2002

Bush, Jiang draw closer to their divide

By Frank Ching

HONG KONG -- It is ironic that both Washington and Beijing consider the 30-hour visit to China by U.S. President George W. Bush a great success. After all, neither party got what it wanted most from the other. The United States did not get the antiproliferation agreement it wanted from China and the...

COMMENTARY

Mar 5, 2002

Narrow field helps Koizumi

By Kenzo Uchida

Immediately after Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi fired Foreign Minister Makiko Tanaka early Jan. 30, the public approval rate of his government plummeted to about 50 percent from the unprecedentedly high 80 percent it had maintained for nine months since its inception in April. There may be no rebuttal...

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 4, 2002

Beating the U.N. endgame in Cambodia

By Tony Kevin

CANBERRA -- The U.N. Secretariat's Feb. 8 announcement ending further cooperation with Cambodia on jointly run Khmer Rouge trials has set off a round of international commentary, mostly unfavorable to Cambodia. Here is an attempt to set the record straight, based on reliable public sources.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 4, 2002

Bush suffers economic jet lag

By Alan Tonelson and Ronald A. Morse

What is it about a trip to East Asia that turns the minds of shrewd politicians like President George W. Bush and his national security advisers into mush? Once again, an American president and his entourage have traveled to Asia. And once again, jet lag, inadequate oxygen in Air Force One or something...

COMMENTARY

Mar 4, 2002

Research needs cutting edge

By Takamitsu Sawa

Since Japan has already decided to reorganize national universities into public corporations in fiscal 2004, it would be useless now to discuss the pros and cons of the plan. I happen to feel the plan will do neither harm nor good.

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 4, 2002

U.S. furthers fraud of Japanese reform

By Steven C. Clemons

WASHINGTON -- Why should Goldman Sachs and U.S. President George W. Bush expect Japan to reconcile its financial accounts and nonperforming loans when it is clear that Japan's political architecture inhibits accountability on any front, particularly in matters of Japan's historical memory?

COMMENTARY / JAPAN IN THE GLOBAL ERA

Mar 4, 2002

'Inbred' universities dragging Japan down

By Jean-pierre Lehmann

LAUSANNE, Switzerland -- A former Japanese student of mine, now a member of the economics faculty of one of Tokyo's leading universities, remarked on an occasion when we were having lunch together that, "Larry Summers would not have been appointed professor in a Japanese university." Summers is quite...

EDITORIALS

Mar 4, 2002

Creating new demand is the key

An antideflation package put together last Thursday by the government and the Bank of Japan has disappointed everyone. Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi himself has acknowledged that it includes "no quick remedies." A key policymaker in the ruling coalition has described it as a "patchwork of stopgap...

COMMENTARY / World

Mar 3, 2002

Revolting state of affairs under Chavez

By Cesar Chelala

NEW YORK -- Recent developments in Venezuela -- work stoppages, increasing public dissatisfaction with government policies, deficiencies in essential services, a weak economy, the beginnings of military resistance -- seem to augur dif ficult times for President Hugo Chavez. He is becoming isolated from...

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