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It’s Not Too Late on North Korea – by Susan Rice – NYT | Inconvenient News Worldwide

September 20, 2017 / East Asia, Foreign Affairs and U.S.ForeignPolicy, Korea - North and South Korea

“We carefully studied this contingency. “Preventive war” would result in hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of casualties. Metropolitan Seoul’s 26 million people are only 35 miles from the border, within easy range of the North’s missiles and artillery. About 23,000 United States troops, plus their families, live between Seoul and the Demilitarized Zone; in …

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The Workers Who Regret Trump’s Scrapping of a Trade Deal – by Neil Gough – NYT

March 1, 2017 / Globalization and Trade, Trade and Trade Policy, Vietnam Post 1975 War Problems

“HO CHI MINH CITY, Vietnam — Do Thi Minh Hanh, a labor activist, had grown accustomed to being beaten, hospitalized and jailed for her work in a country where independent trade unions are banned. So it gave her hope for a reprieve when Vietnam reached a trade deal with the United States and other countries …

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What Is TPP? Behind the Trade Deal That Died – The New York Times

March 1, 2017 / Globalization and Trade, Trade and Trade Policy, Vietnam Post 1975 War Problems

“Today, the United States and most developed countries have few tariffs, but some remain. The United States, for example, protects the domestic sugar market from lower-priced global suppliers and imposes tariffs on imported shoes, while Japan has steep surcharges on agricultural products including rice, beef and dairy. The pact was an effort to create a …

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