By: Julia Jabour | Trend Lines
Characterizing the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic
Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) as a “failure” due to its inability to
agree on marine reserves in the Antarctic is unnecessarily alarmist and a
misrepresentation of the enduring robustness of this group of
decision-makers.
By: Jens Kastner | Briefing
The man set to take over as China's leader is reputedly very
well-versed in Taiwanese affairs. Throughout his political career, Xi
Jinping has maintained close links to the Taiwanese business community
based in China, and members of his wife's clan live in Taiwan. But those
who assume that Xi's background might lead to rapid evolutions in
Beijing’s cross-straits policies are likely to be disappointed.
By: The Editors | Trend Lines
In an email interview, Timur Dadabaev, an expert on Central Asia
at Tsukuba University in Japan, discussed Japanese relations with
Central Asia.
By: Shihoko Goto | Briefing
While Japan has backpedaled on its initial post-Fukushima plan to
phase out nuclear energy entirely by 2040, it remains on the path to
wean itself off atomic power in direct response to last year’s nuclear
disaster. Yet even the gradual phase-out of nuclear power could be fatal
to Japan’s economic as well as political future, as the country
grapples with regaining its foothold in the global economy.
By: Catherine Cheney | Trend Lines
Ahead of a World Health Organization summit bringing 100 countries
together for the first meeting of member states on falsely labeled
medical products, a group of public health experts is calling for an
international treaty on substandard and counterfeit medicines.
By: Steven Metz | Column
Beginning in the 1970s, the United States dramatically improved
what was already the top military in the world. Today the U.S. military
remains among the best in history, perhaps the very best. But sustaining
this quality is becoming increasingly difficult. Big problems,
including personnel costs and recruitment challenges, are looming due to
a wicked combination of economic and demographic trends.
By: Catherine Cheney | Trend Lines
In one of the largest single-day movements of refugees since the
Syrian crisis began, 11,000 Syrians fled into neighboring countries
Friday, with 9,000 of them entering Turkey, according to the United
Nations.
By: Frida Ghitis | Column
Over the past 20 months, the world has watched the conflict in
Syria with concern, but without taking meaningful action. Now, as the
war draws exchanges of fire across the borders with Israel, Turkey and
other neighboring countries, the conflict is approaching a crucial line.
This tipping point, once reached, is likely to spur a much more urgent
international effort to push the crisis toward a resolution.
By: The Editors | Trend Lines
In an email interview, Rosemary Hollis, a professor of Middle East
policy studies at City University London, discussed relations between
the U.K. and the Persian Gulf states.
By: Roxane Horton | Briefing
This week’s high-level U.S.-Australia defense and security
consultations, which saw U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, U.S.
Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta and their Australian counterparts, Bob
Carr and Stephen Smith, meet in Perth Wednesday and Thursday, took
place amid domestic debate over the primacy of Australia's military
alliance with the U.S. and Australian defense procurement.
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