GlobalTalk 21

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Some of you know that I’ve been having problems with my Windows Vista PC. Specifically, I could not send messages from my Eurasia Group webm...

On June 26, the President announced the lifting of the application of the Trading with the Enemy Act (TWEA) with respect to the Democratic P...

I really, really do .

Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers? Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron? Elvis Presley and Ann Margaret? We report , you decide. Bill, get over it.

I’ve been reading Edward Luce’s In Spite of the Gods: The Strange Rise of Modern India , though not nearly as quickly as I’d like to—I’m eas...

A keeper of monkeys said with regard to their rations of nuts that each monkey was to have three in the morning and four at night. At this t...

Here I go comparing Barack Obama favorably to John McCain from a Japanese viewpoint. The Japanese version is here , at least until it’s arc...

The eponymous, multilingual Sun Bin has yet another East China Sea post , this time on the South Korea angle . Mapped, complete with coordi...

It comes from the establishment’s paper of unofficial record, so you want some corroboration, preferably from the Chinese side (not that the...

There’s something that’s been nagging me in the back of my head since I learned how popular Barack Obama was, not only in Kenya or Africa bu...

Of the four gas fields in the June 15 Asahi report recorded here , only Shirakaba/Chungxiao was actually included in the final agreement. I...

The June 16 17 Yomiuri reports that two gas fields, Shirakaba/Chungxiao and Asunaro/ Canxue Longjing—not four as originally reported by As...

From what little I’ve heard, the vetting process for picking the vice presidential candidate appears to be one of the most invasive procedur...

In a 2007 telephone survey by John C.T. Lim, an associate professor at the University of the Ryukyus—that’s a cool name by the way— 41.6% o...

I had been highly skeptical of the chances for a deal since I believed that the Japanese government’s legal concerns could not be adequately...

Yesterday, the Chief Cabinet Secretary made the announcement, later confirmed by the Foreign Minister , that the North Korean authorities ha...

If I am wrong on this one, I will seriously doubt my hold on my faculties… The fireworks have been missing from Japanese politics the last c...

On June 4, the Japanese Supreme Court in a plenary ruling by a majority of 10 to 5 struck down as unconstitutional the provision of the Nati...

Sunday (June 8) Yomiuri carries a story headlined Mr. Maehara Criticizes Ozawa Manifest… in July Chuou Kouron . According to the report, Ch...