Opinion
June-16-2013
- Iran pins hope for changes on new president
- Iranian voters have chosen Hassan Rouhani as their new president in the just concluded election Saturday, in which he won 50.7 percent of the votes, far ahead of his five rivals, showing their strong desire for changes for the country.
June-15-2013
- Women warriors chart US war course
- President Obama appears to be leaning towards greater U.S. intervention abroad following the appointment of a new brand of aggressive female liberal interventionists.
June-14-2013
- Whistleblower welcome in China
- China should offer asylum to U.S. whistleblower Edward Snowden following his bravery in exposing the hypocrisy of the PRISM surveillance program.
June-14-2013
- Abe's plot to contain China is doomed to fail
- Since taking office as Japanese prime minister, Shinzo Abe has been launching frequent diplomatic blitzes targeting China, apparently in a bid to put up a ring of encirclement to contain and guard against China.
June-13-2013
- NSA's Prism operation: How do we balance security and privacy?
- American Prism program reignites the privacy vs. security debate.
June-13-2013
- Obama and Xi start new era on right footing
- The recent summit meeting between Presidents Obama and Xi struck exactly the right note for future Sino-U.S. relations.
June-13-2013
- Optimism remains over resumption of talks
- Pyongyang and Seoul both are still willing to resume communication, experts said after high-level intergovernmental talks between the two sides were called off.
June-13-2013
- Unjustified US intelligence
- The Obama administration may want to adjust the boundaries of its counterterrorism policies so that infringements on individual rights are not as expansive.
June-13-2013
- A favorable beginning
- Informal get-together of Xi and Obama has increased mutual understanding about new model of relations between powers.
June-13-2013
- US blind to Latin America
- The Barack Obama administration and US media have made much ado about the "pivot" to Asia policy. What has largely escaped their attention, is that China has been lining up economic allies in the erstwhile "backyard" of the US.
