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[Kim Hoo-ran] Not walking the talk

Korea ushered in the era of 5G era at the stroke of midnight on Dec. 1, when the country’s three mobile carriers -- SKT, KT and LG Uplus -- simultaneously switched on 5G networks. Although the servic...

Dec 5, 2018
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[Tyler Cowen] Trump deserves some credit for a truce with China

Just because the US and China have agreed to call a truce in their trade war doesn’t mean that it’s over: This was a classic exercise in can-kicking. Nonetheless, most cans have quite a few kicks in ...

Dec 4, 2018
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[Robert J. Fouser] Listen to the broad middle

Labor strife in South Korea is back in the news, as the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions launched a general strike on Nov. 2l. The KCTU also boycotted a meeting of the Economic, Social and Labor ...

Dec 4, 2018
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[Mohamed A. El-Erian] G-20 gives markets a short-term win

The G-20 Summit in Argentina ended without fireworks involving the US, which was appropriate in a way, given the pall cast by the death of President George H.W. Bush. The US went along with a watere...

Dec 4, 2018
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[Hal Brands] Elizabeth Warren has (half) a foreign policy

A crucial challenge for the Democratic Party is to formulate a foreign policy platform that goes beyond critiquing US President Donald Trump and lays out a compelling vision of America’s role in an i...

Dec 4, 2018
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[Kim Seong-kon] The fear index based on Korea’s future

The fear index, also known as the Volatile Index, refers to the stock market’s expectation of volatility and investors’ anxiety amid extreme uncertainty. “The Fear Index” is also the title of famed ...

Dec 4, 2018
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[Shannon O’Neil] Latin America’s new populism isn’t about economy

A year ago, Latin American nations and their bevy of pragmatic, market-friendly, middle-of-the-road presidents stood out from some of their OECD counterparts. Eight presidential races later, the regi...

Dec 3, 2018
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[Noah Smith] Growth remedy for wage stagnation

Wages for the average American aren’t rising very quickly. Apart from a brief burst of growth in late 2014 and 2015, both average hourly earnings and total compensation (which includes health care an...

Dec 3, 2018
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[Faye Flam] Nature hasn’t created perfect species

For such flawed creatures, human beings are surprisingly hard to improve, at least through our genes. That’s one reason there’s so much outcry over the recent claim that researchers in China altered...

Dec 3, 2018
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[Alexandra Borchardt] Mundane dangers confronting news media

The brutal torture and murder of the US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has focused attention on Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is widely believed to have ordered the killing. It ...

Dec 3, 2018
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[Julian Lee] OPEC might kick Saudi Arabia when it’s down

OPEC and friends meet in Vienna later this week, and the backdrop isn’t pretty. Oil prices are their lowest in over a year, and there’s the prospect of a glut in 2019 if the group doesn’t make a new ...

Dec 3, 2018
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[David Ignatius] America needs to use power silently

Listen to the voice barking orders on a Russian ship last Sunday as it drove straight toward a Ukrainian tug: “Crush him from the right. ... Do it! Do it! (Expletive) cut him off!” And then, just bef...

Dec 2, 2018
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[John Micklethwait] China inching in the right direction

It was appropriate that US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping flew to Buenos Aires for their showdown summit at the close of a month that began with the centennial of the end of ...

Dec 2, 2018
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[Matthew B. Kugler] Does it hurt you if your face is tracked by technology?

Would you care if a store used facial recognition to track you as you shopped? If it could link your face to your credit card and know not just what you bought, but also what you looked at? Data I’v...

Dec 2, 2018
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[Chong Lip Teck] Why ratifying human rights convention is an issue in Malaysia

A convention to end racial discrimination is stoking anger in Malaysia. But fears that the ratification of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICER...

Dec 2, 2018
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