Opinion

Saturday 03/February/2018 15:35 PM

US risks losing an Arctic Cold War

Last August, a Russian tanker sailed direct from Norway to South Korea through the Arctic Ocean, the first time such a ship had done so without an...

Saturday 03/February/2018 15:30 PM

Health costs of US tax reform

The sweeping tax bill that US President Donald Trump signed into law on December 22, 2017, may have been presented as an early Christmas gift. But to the...

Wednesday 31/January/2018 15:18 PM

Moon Jae-in’s Olympic realpolitik

South Korean President Moon Jae-in has made a good start to the New Year. Not only did he broker an agreement to bring North Korea to the Winter Olympic...

Wednesday 31/January/2018 14:56 PM

China’s search for quality growth

As Chinese President Xi Jinping begins his second five-year term, shifting toward “quality growth” is at the top of the country’s policy agenda....

Wednesday 31/January/2018 14:41 PM

Is Germany catching Trump’s tax disease?

After months of negotiations, another grand coalition government – comprising Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and a grudging...