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TRADE

WORLD / Politics
Dec 9, 2013
Ukraine throngs now demand systemic change
Hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians filled the streets of Kiev on Sunday — no longer focused solely on a trade agreement with the European Union, but now also looking to recast their country's frayed and corrupt political system.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / FOCUS
Dec 4, 2013
Russian deals handcuff U.S. on Ukraine
As Ukraine turns away from closer relations with the European Union and further into the embrace of Russia, the Obama administration is saying little about it or the resulting street protests for fear of provoking a fracture with the Kremlin.
COMMENTARY / World
Dec 2, 2013
U.S. unprepared to limit swings in food prices
The U.S. is not prepared to let developing countries protect their poor from the harmful effects of world food price swings that are increasing caused by U.S. policy in the first place.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Nov 29, 2013
Russia wins on Ukraine, but neighbors wary
Russia's success in getting Ukraine to pull back at the last minute from signing an agreement with the European Union obscures a deeper trend: Moscow's relations with its neighbors have been on a downward slope for several years, and they show no signs of improving.
EDITORIALS
Nov 28, 2013
The Ukraine tug of war
Russian President Vladimir Putin has won an important foreign policy victory with the decision by Ukraine to suspend talks on an association agreement with the European Union.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 27, 2013
With shift to Russia, ex-leader stays in cell
For many in the United States and Europe, Ukraine's future had been bound up with the fate of a former prime minister with halolike braids who was jailed in an act of political retribution.
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 25, 2013
U.S. pushing new trade treaties at expense of national sovereignty
New trade treaties being pushed by the United States undermine national sovereignty.
COMMENTARY
Nov 15, 2013
China's quest for value in the globalization age
China must re-establish its competitiveness by positioning itself at the top of the global value chain, which implies the need to promote trade and upgrade its industrial infrastructure.

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