By Amie Tsang March 6, 2019 “Carlos Ghosn, the man who created what was effectively the world’s largest carmaker, has been released on bail after spending more than three months in jail. Mr. Ghosn once oversaw the alliance of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi and was the consummate high-flying executive. On Wednesday, he walked out of a …
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“In 2001, Gordon Chang, an American lawyer who had spent many years in Hong Kong and Shanghai, published a book forebodingly titled “The Coming Collapse of China.” At the time, the thesis seemed improbable, if not preposterous. It looks a great deal less improbable now. China — or, rather, the Chinese regime — is in …
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By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist Sept. 17, 2019 138 Protesters in Hong Kong on Sept. 6.CreditCreditAn Rong Xu for The New York Times 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “HONG KONG — Pay attention to Hong Kong. The three months of protests here speak volumes about the state of democracy today — how the human quest for freedom can’t be …
“Despite my best efforts to move beyond it, I have been thinking of my lost home since the eruption of the most recent crisis in Kashmir. I was born a Hindu in Kashmir, as was almost everyone in my family, for probably thousands of years. My parents decided to move abroad for work opportunities in …
By Louisa Lim Ms. Lim, the author of “The People’s Republic of Amnesia: Tiananmen Revisited,” is writing a book about Hong Kong. Aug. 13, 2019 Protesters faced riot police during a mass demonstration at Hong Kong International Airport on Tuesday.CreditCreditTyrone Siu/Reuters 阅读简体中文版閱讀繁體中文版 “MELBOURNE, Australia — As the police deploy tear gas against protesters on the streets of …
By Thomas L. Friedman Opinion Columnist Aug. 13, 2019 144 President Trump and President Xi Jinping of China in 2017.CreditCreditDoug Mills/The New York Times “I was glad to see the stock market get a boost from the news that Chinese and U.S. trade negotiators were talking again and that President Trump blinked a bit and pulled …
Japan and South Korea stir up an old, odd rivalry. By Ian Buruma Mr. Buruma is a writer and a professor at Bard College. Aug. 12, 2019 CreditCreditOleksii Liskonih/iStock, via Getty Images Plus “In a rational world, South Korea and Japan ought to be the best of friends. Their cultures and languages are closely linked. Their …
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“In the United States, the most popular last name is Smith. As per the 2010 census, about 0.8 percent of Americans have it. In Vietnam, the most popular last name is Nguyen. The estimate for how many people answer to it? Somewhere between 30 and 40 percent of the country’s population. The 14 most popular …
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By Bret Stephens Opinion Columnist June 13, 2019 51 Protesters faced off against the police in Hong Kong on Wednesday.CreditDale De La Rey/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images “Imagine if in 2018 the Trump administration had proposed legislation that would allow the government, on nearly any pretext, to detain, try and imprison Americans accused of wrongdoing at …
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“On June 3, after my proposal to retreat from the square had been overruled by other student leaders, I went back to my university dorm to rest. Friends phoned me late that night with the news that soldiers had opened fire on protesters, and I fell into a state of shock. We never believed that …