Barack Obama drew criticism for the perception that while he was president, the United States in some ways abandoned its traditional role of global leadership in favor of an approach that an Obama aide memorably described as “leading from behind.” But even as the US stayed mostly away from the fray as the Syrian civil war turned into a massive humanitarian crisis, America maintained its leading position by pushing for a global response to climate change, supporting longstanding mutual defense pa

In response to KERI’s suggestion that Korea follow Donald Trump’s administration and lower the tax rate on business income held overseas, it is wrong to assume that multinational companies would reinvest in Korea, ordinary citizens are tired of governments favoring big business, and Donald Trump is not someone any reasonable leader should follow.With less than six months in office, Trump is the most volatile and polarizing president in American history, and -- as a president and a human being --

The latest feat of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the launching on Tuesday of what could be an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching Alaska, presents the 13th American president in a row the dilemma of what to do about North Korea.None of the various options to be considered to address this problem is attractive. A military attack on North Korea would lead inevitably to catastrophic damage to America’s long-term ally, South Korea, as well as to carnage and disruption

Two US B-1B strategic bombers conducted live-fire drills with South Korean fighter jets over the Korean Peninsula on Saturday.The drill was a simulated attack on a North Korean missile launcher, and signaled a warning message to the North for test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile Tuesday.It is the first time for B-1B bombers to have publicly conducted a drill over the Korean Peninsula.South Korea and the US forces in Korea fired ballistic missiles into the South Korean waters in a

Checking out of a hotel in the southern Indian state of Kerala this week took so long that I almost missed my flight. It wasn’t the hotel staff’s fault; their work, temporarily, had been doubled. As a polite note in my room reminded me when I checked in, they would have to present two invoices to me when I left -- one for the days prior to July 1, and one for the days after. For at midnight on July 1, India migrated to a new, more comprehensive indirect tax regime, known as the goods and service