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East Asia
Regulators Join Tech Rivalry with National-Security Blocks on Cross-Border Investment
Much has been made of negotiations between the United States and China amid their “trade war” over the past two years. Concerns by the US government about the role of Chinese companies — especially Huawei — in the buildout of next-generation 5G telecom networks around the world has provided the…
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East Asia
Redrawing Korea’s Industrial Map
“It will take at least 100 years to rebuild this country,” Gen. Douglas MacArthur once said as he faced the war-ravaged cities of Korea while leading the United Nations forces during the Korean War. As one of the world’s poorest countries, post-war Korea’s per capita gross domestic product was less…
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East Asia
Unification minister says S. Korea will lead peninsula’s peace process
Unification Minister Kim Yeon-chul said Wednesday that South Korea will play a leading role in resolving the North Korean nuclear issue and establishing a lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula. Kim made the remark during a forum on inter-Korean relations in Seoul, saying there is still a “long way to…
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East Asia
U.S. envoy for N.K. to visit Russia this wee
U.S. Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun will travel to Russia this week for talks on dismantling North Korea’s nuclear weapons program, the State Department said Tuesday. Biegun, who is in charge of day-to-day negotiations with Pyongyang, is due to visit Moscow Wednesday and Thursday to meet with Russian…
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East Asia
Moon to hold summit with Turkmen president
South Korean President Moon Jae-in will meet his Turkmen counterpart, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, on Wednesday to discuss ways to improve the countries’ bilateral ties. The summit will follow a welcome ceremony for Moon, who arrived here Tuesday on a three-day state visit. It will be held at the presidential palace, Oguzkhan,…
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East Asia
S. Koreans grieve in memory of victims of Sewol ferry sinking on its 5th anniv.
Yellow ribbons tied to a breakwater at the southwestern port of Paengmok wave in the wind, a symbol that commemorates those who died in a deadly ferry sinking in 2014. Their color has somewhat faded with the passage of time, but the port still stands as a pilgrimage site for…
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President of Mongolia Khaltmaagiin Battulga on his vision for his nation
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Questions and Answers with Magazine N A painter, former world wrestling champion, property tycoon and an politician- President Khaltmaagiin Battulga won Mongolia’s presidential run- off election in 2017, with the anniversary of his first year in office approaching, the president talks about Mongolia- South Korea relations, stabilizing an…
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Business
From Abe to Outer Space, Can Japan’s Military Techno-Nationalism Survive?
Japan has often been regarded as the forerunner and indeed the very apogee of techno-nationalism in Asia. In the Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa eras, Japan was the first Asian state to industrialize and rise to great-power status, largely due to national policies encouraging importation, indigenization and wielding modern technologies. In…
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East Asia
Data, Rivalry and Government Power: Machine Learning Is Changing Everything
It wasn’t that long ago that the digital economy was thought to float on a plane above conventional geopolitics and economics. The global Internet, aspiring to be “free and open” and surprisingly close to that in reality, was a general-purpose technology as revolutionary as the internal combustion engine, telephony, electricity…
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East Asia
Techno-Nationalism vs. the Fourth Industrial Revolution
What is the impact of techno-nationalism on global innovation? Does it advance, protect or impede it? Over the coming two decades, the answers may determine the economic success, competitiveness and geostrategic position not only of Asian nations but much of the world. We are at a historical inflection point.…
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