World News Insights: Opinion Articles

Cryptocurrencies have been on an upswing after months of declines, giving some credence to those who say digital currencies are resilient and on the cusp of becoming more widely accepted. While it's too difficult to predict anything when it comes to Bitcoin and other coins, more people are…

The Afghanistan policy story over the last month has primarily been about the US presidency. It should not remain that way. It’s not hard to tell the story of US involvement in Afghanistan as a tale of failures by at least five presidents. Bill Clinton left a dangerous situation that he did too…

During the civil war, demarcation lines separated the regions of Lebanon, leaving every faction or sectarian community able to barricade itself behind them and build its statelet or autonomous administration in the areas under their control. Since the return of barricades seems impossible,…

US President Joe Biden, 78, has said that he doesn’t regret his decision in withdrawing the American forces out of Afghanistan. Addressing the American people, he said that he will judge Taliban based on their actions, not words. Let me tell you what he actually means: We don’t care what goes on in…

In an industry facing its biggest crisis since the dawn of jet aviation, Qantas Airways Ltd. has been having rather a good pandemic. It’s the return to normalcy it needs to worry about. Shares rose 3.5% Thursday, the biggest increase in a year, in spite of the announcement of a A$1.83 billion (…

Taiwan’s world-beating semiconductor company, TSMC, is chartering a container ship to move pieces of equipment to its new factory in Arizona. The move may herald a new era of foreign investment in the US— but only if America plays its cards right. The key will be to see global supply chains as an…

Over the past six months, a handful of the world’s largest electric-vehicle makers have announced some of the most expensive recalls in the history of the auto industry. Investors are focused on the billions of dollars this will cost and who will foot the bill. Instead, they should be asking about…

The US is getting out of Afghanistan, but it is unlikely to get out — and stay out — of the Middle East. For the past decade, three presidents have tried to downsize the American presence in the region; for generations, the Middle East has been a strategic morass. But the US seems stuck there,…

Vladimir Putin snatched from the Afghans their right to choose the system of governance that suits them as he was criticizing the West’s attempts to impose its model of democracy. However, keeping the peoples of the Third World hostage to their “traditions” is no less arbitrary than any attempt…

The world’s best-selling smartphone may not be tops when it comes to navigating life during a global pandemic. At least that’s what I discovered — and it’s why I ditched my iPhone. Normally, swapping out an iPhone for a competing device just weeks ahead of Apple Inc.’s annual September iPhone…

Whenever G7 leaders gather, the optics usually say more than the anodyne communiques issued afterwards. Fortunately for Joe Biden, there will be no group photo from Tuesday’s virtual summit to talk about Afghanistan. The withdrawal debacle has left the world’s preeminent power looking like the…

The past two decades were widely assumed to usher in the transition from the “American Century'' to the “Chinese Century,'' as evidenced by the most populous nation's burgeoning gross domestic product, dominance in manufacturing and global trade and, most recently, advancing technology poised to…