2003

   Analysis by Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON (IPS) — Four years ago, the author and critic Chalmers Johnson wrote a prescient book about U.S. foreign policy that unfavourably compared Japan's postwar prime ministers to the East German leaders Walter Ulbricht and Erich Honecker.

   By Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON — Has the United States adopted a new, global strategy based on the unilateral use of force that U.S. allies in South-east Asia must either accept in total or reject at the peril of becoming a target themselves?  

   Analysis by Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON — The Sep. 11 attacks on the United States and the subsequent U.S. invasion of Iraq have spawned a new industry of terrorism experts, who have made their mark by explaining their theories to the media and advising governments and corporations on how to cope with threats to national security.

   By Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON, Oct 22 — On Nov. 9, Japan faces a general election for its powerful Lower House in which foreign policy will play a major role.

   By Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON, Sep 29 — The furore in Washington over the rapid expansion of Chinese exports and allegations that China's yuan is undervalued masks a growing convergence between the United States and China in diplomatic affairs, scholars and Asian experts say.

   By Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON, Jun 12 — Richard Koo, the maverick chief economist for Japan’s Nomura Research Institute, is well-known for his theories that Japan’s financial crisis is caused more by corporate balance sheet problems than a lack of structural reforms at the macro level.

   By Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON, April 7 — Recent Chinese moves to influence events in the Korean peninsula are part of a new assertiveness in Beijing that has dovetailed with closer economic and political ties with the United States, experts on Chinese-U.S. relations claim.

   By Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON, May 21 — With the leaders of South Korea and Japan paying back-to-back visits to Washington to meet with U.S. President George W Bush, tensions continue to mount on the Korean peninsula over North Korea's nuclear weapons programmes and the U.S. refusal to sign a non-aggression treaty with Pyongyang.

   By Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON, Feb 17 — Call it the catfish wars.

   By Tim Shorrock

WASHINGTON, Feb 3 — The news that U.S. intelligence satellites had picked up signs of intense activity around North Korea's nuclear power plant at Yongbyon has ratcheted up the U.S. standoff with Pyongyang another notch.