In the waning days of Barack Obama’s administration, one of the president’s advisory councils issued a report warning of China’s plans to snatch control of the critical semiconductor industry. Its recommendation: “Win the race by running faster.”It is sound advice, but the new administration isn’t listening. Donald Trump’s policies, in fact, offer a road map for how not to compete with China.That’s because team Trump doesn’t fully grasp the threat China now poses to the US economy. China is mars

India’s parliamentary system, inherited from the British, is rife with inefficiencies. By the logic of Westminster, you elect a legislature to form the executive, and when the executive does not command a secure majority in the legislative assembly, the government falls, triggering fresh elections.The result is a vote in some or other of India’s 29 state assemblies every six months or so, each one acting as a sort of referendum on the government in New Delhi. In short, India’s freewheeling multi

After voicing my perspective on the current frayed relations between Japan and Korea, including my take on how some Korean politicians appear to be abusing our “comfort women,” I received quite a bit of feedback from readers. So I thought it would be good to respond through this column where the discussion all began.In my previous pieces, I already stated that I do not support Japan’s stance on comfort women, nor do I accept the 2015 deal for receiving monetary benefits in return for permanently

However luminous the brains of the leaders at Beijing’s Jongnanhai may be, the current Chinese “countermeasures” on Korea’s decision to introduce the US-built Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system are unjustified and inappropriate. Above all, they will be counterproductive. 　While we were in the impeachment turmoil over the past few months, China took a variety of restrictive measures on Korean businesses and pop entertainers operating in the country. It appeared that anti-South Korea hyste

On Aug. 9, 1974, Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as president of the United States after Richard Nixon resigned amid the threat of certain impeachment. In brief remarks Ford said, “My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. Our Constitution works; our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here the people rule.”In its verdict on the impeachment of former President Park Geun-hye, the Constitutional Court echoed Ford’s words and ruled that Park had failed to

Rudyard Kipling’s novella “The Man Who Would Be King” is an account of two British adventurers in British India, Daniel Dravot and Peachy Carnehan, who go to Afghanistan to become kings of Kafiristan.Impressed by their rifles and white skin, the native people worship them as gods. Intoxicated by their newfound power, the two men become arrogant and tyrannical. Driven by voracity and gluttony, Dravot declares he needs a queen and therefore will marry a gorgeous native woman, against the warning o