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![[Jeffrey Frankel] Will Fed tightening choke emerging markets?](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/20150325001430_01.jpg "[Jeffrey Frankel] Will Fed tightening choke emerging markets?")
As the Federal Reserve moves closer to initiating one of the most long-awaited and widely predicted periods of rising short-term interest rates in the United …
Thursday marks the fifth anniversary of the North Korean torpedo attack on the Cheonan corvette in the West Sea, in which 46 officers and sailors perished in …
It is often said that Koreans are not good at negotiations or compromise. As a matter of fact, social pacts and grand social compromises that require …
![[Lee Jae-min] Strategic ambiguity and paralysis](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/20150324001552_01.jpg "[Lee Jae-min] Strategic ambiguity and paralysis")
Kicking the can down the road does not solve the problem. It may buy some time but the moment of truth will come soon. Through the recent AIIB and THAAD …
![[Kim Seong-kon] Art of coordination is key](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/20150324001551_01.jpg "[Kim Seong-kon] Art of coordination is key")
Although South Korea is known to be a group-oriented society, Koreans strangely lack coordination and cooperation. Take for example our weather updates: The …
Finance Minister Choi Kyung-hwan last week announced his third stimulus package since taking office in July to help boost the economy. Markets have remained …
The thorniest task facing the parliamentary special committee on political reform, which was set up last week, may be rezoning the 246 electoral districts …
![[Kent Harrington] U.S.’ bickering Asian allies](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/20150323001720_01.jpg "[Kent Harrington] U.S.’ bickering Asian allies")
American diplomats like to portray their country’s allies in glowing terms. So the world should take note when they do not ― such as when U.S. …
![[Carl Minzner] A dangerous return to China’s isolationist past](http://heraldk.com/en/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/03/20150323001719_01.jpg "[Carl Minzner] A dangerous return to China’s isolationist past")
Beijing increasingly appears to be walling China off from the outside world, with potentially disastrous consequences. Take civil society. China’s national …
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is likely to address a joint session of the U.S. Congress during his visit to the U.S. at the end of next month, becoming …