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China's Real Estate Bubble May Have Just Popped

Patrick Chovanec

China's real estate market has overheated in the past. But Beijing has repeatedly said it would "cool" things down; it never did. Now, as the market corrects itself, a large part of the country's economy is convulsing, while sending shockwaves through the global economy. Read

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Meet Kim Jong Un's New Team

Ken Gause

What seems to be emerging in North Korea is a leadership configuration in which Kim Jong Un has been installed as a figurehead atop a regime struggling to hold itself together after Kim Jong Il spent two decades undermining any kind of institutional order. Read

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North Korea's Choice: Collapse or Reform

Andrei Lankov

Kim Jong Un is likely to continue his father's policies, keeping the country what it is now -- a nuclear-armed dictatorship in abject poverty -- until it can no longer sustain itself. Read