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It has been a disturbing ten days in foreign relations.   A week ago Monday, North Korea,  without provocation, began shelling the South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.  Two South Korean civilians and two Marines were killed and a ...Read more

Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize as a young President who chose to continue and even accelerate the war in Iraq (admittedly in an effort to end it – but still!!!) and ramp up military efforts in Afghanistan and ...Read more

As mid-term elections come closer and closer, Americans have discovered a new and distinctively bipartisan enemy: China.  Darn it, its yuan is worth fewer dollars than we’d like it to be, and we’re angry about that.  How about taxing Chinese ...Read more

On Saturday the New York Times reported yet more evidence of the incorrigible corruption of the Karzai government in Afghanistan.  Fazel Ahmed Facqiryar, a former Deputy Attorney General, has recently been fired for asserting publicly that the investigations of more ...Read more

In his CenterMovement.org essays of May 6 and June 3, Stephen Erickson has laid out thoughtful challenges to current US policy toward Korea and China and a series of bold initiatives to take policy in a different direction.  The essays ...Read more