From Arms To Currency: A New Order -- Song Ho-keun, Joongang Daily
The global powers are wrangling to take the industrial helm through currency control just as they once depended on military potency.
No-nonsense judge and diplomat Yi Jun along with two other emissaries, Lee Sang-seol and Lee Wi-jong, arrived at The Hague in the summer of 1907 for an international peace conference of global powers. They carried with them a secret letter from King Gojong of Korea arguing the invalidity and injustice of the forcibly signed Eulsa Treaty that surrendered Korea to Japan as a protectorate.
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Commentaries, Opinions, And Editorials
China's Hu Rebuffs Weakened Obama at Summit -- Jonathan Weisman and Damian Paletta, Wall Street Journal
G20: Why the US should worry if Asian currencies strengthen -- Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor
What is currency manipulation, anyhow? -- Annalyn Censky, CNN
The view from Beijing tells you why we need a European foreign policy -- Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian
The Road to Kabul Runs Through Kashmir: Why the key to winning in Afghanistan is peace between Islamabad and New Delhi. -- Ahmed Rashid, Foreign Policy
Does an ice pick in the back await the man who betrayed Anna Chapman? -- Joshua Keating, Foreign Policy
Muslim wars: A new beginning: Obama ignores the hard issues about Islam -- Washington Times editorial
Netanyahu Isn’t the One Playing Politics on Iran -- Jonathan S. Tobin, Commentary Magazine
Ethiopia shows the damage that aid can do -- Sam Bowman, Christian Science Monitor
What's missing in Mr. Obama's democracy rhetoric -- Washington Post editorial
Obama's Top 10 Foreign-Policy Headaches -- Josh Rogin, Foreign Policy
Robo-Weapons and the Rules of War -- David Ignatius, Real Clear World/Washington Post
American Spartans: Marines face uncertain future -- Arthur Herman, New York Post
Vietnam vets betrayed again: Pentagon bureaucrat wants to abridge 50th-anniversary ceremonies -- Jim Robbins, Washington Times