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Explore Southeast Asia on a Mekong River Cruise Sep. 08, 2019
By Steve Bergsman When considering a cruise down the Mekong River in Southeast Asia, one is tempted ... Read More
Do Trump's Hawks Speak for Trump? Jun. 04, 2019
For a president who won his office by denouncing the Middle East wars into which George W. Bush and ... Read More
30 Years Later, the Tiananmen Tiger Still Stalks Communist China's Dragon May. 29, 2019
China's four-decade rise from hunger-plagued developing country to great power with global clout ran... Read More
Trump's Malignant Mercantilism: President's Double-Talk About Tariffs Reflects His Economically Ignorant Conviction That Exports Are Good and Imports Are Bad May. 15, 2019
Larry Kudlow, Donald Trump's chief economic adviser, understands that tariffs on Chinese imports are... Read More
Vintage Trump! Squeezing China May. 09, 2019
President Donald Trump must have read his own book, "The Art of the Deal." He is skillfully applying... Read More
Trump's Fatal Attraction Mar. 01, 2019
The good news is that the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, Vietnam, did not result in a deal — becau... Read More
Intelligence Chiefs Are Right Feb. 06, 2019
Nothing described in the intelligence community's annual Worldwide Threat Assessment presented to Co... Read More
Media Call Kamala Harris, Barack Obama, Tiger Woods 'Black' -- But Not Naomi Osaka? Jan. 31, 2019
When Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., announced her candidacy for the 2020 presidential race, MSNBC's C... Read More
How the Clintons Made Money From Huawei Jan. 30, 2019
When Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies, was arrested in Canada on Dec... Read More
New Year's Message From North Korea Jan. 09, 2019
Will the brutal communist dictatorship of North Korea set aside nuclear weapons and try to change? N... Read More
Give Thanks for the WWII Generation Dec. 10, 2018
77 years ago, Americans in Hawaii awoke to the sounds of mass destruction, and the sights of flames ... Read More
Moonshot: Deficit Hits Record -- Again Oct. 23, 2018
While politicians in the United States pander to their respective bases in advance of next month's m... Read More
Is America Up for a Second Cold War? Nov. 17, 2017
After the 19th national congress of the Chinese Communist Party in October, one may discern Premier ... Read More
Is Trump Calling Out Xi Jinping? Dec. 06, 2016
Like a bolt of lightning, that call of congratulations from Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen to Preside... Read More
Will the West Survive the Century? Jul. 05, 2016
"Nativism ... xenophobia or worse" is behind the triumph of Brexit and the support for Donald Trump,... Read More
The Bordeaux Conundrum Apr. 26, 2016
Tasting hundreds of young Bordeaux wines from barrel is an annual exercise of self-inflicted pain fo... Read More
Adelson and Sands Mar. 30, 2016
Dear Mr. Berko: Ever since I bought 200 shares of Las Vegas Sands at $84.75 two years ago, it's done... Read More
China Overtaking America May. 06, 2014
The Financial Times sent shock waves through the U.S. business community last week when headlines an... Read More
The Philanthropic Superpower May. 02, 2014
If a single word could sum up the goal of Barack Obama's Asia tour, it would be "reassurance." Obama... Read More
Japanese Ship Impounded by China Over WWII Debt Apr. 24, 2014
A Shanghai court this week ordered that Baosteel Emotion, a Japanese cargo ship, be seized over an u... Read More
