October 2015

'Comfort Women' - What Does It Mean To You?
Imagine someone you knew. A high school girl on her way to Tainan’s Girls High School was captured by a uniformed Japanese military police and was sent to the battle front to serve the Japanese army as a sex slave, being raped day and night for 1095 days – nightmares carved in the girl’s memory, painful and unbearable. This happened during WW II. She committed suicide three times...
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Think Tanks State Visits and Foreign Policies
If one would search for think tank organizations on foreign policy, defense, security and international relations in the U.S., you would find over hundred institutions listed under the search subject. Some think tanks have a sizable subscription group for their publications, an indication of influence of their opinions on the subject matters. For example, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) was reported...
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Maintaining Empire in War versus Sharing Power in Peace
John Glaser, Media Relations Manager, Cato Institute, in his recent article, “The US and China can avoid a collision course – if the US gives up its empire”, published in the Guardian, (5/28/2015) stated bluntly what many political analysts didn’t dare to say. Glaser has four years experience as an editor; five years experience as a writer/news reporter; also expertise in international relations; well...
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