Commentary

If the news from India has been all bad, developments in China are more promising, at least economic

Among the more ridiculous suggestions for solving Japan's and Asia's financial crises is the call fo

The Group of 7 leaders meeting this week in Birmingham, England, will discuss the problems of global

When the Malaysian-flagged tanker Petro Ranger disappeared in the South China Sea recently, maritime

Forget about markets. Focus on people. Markets exist to serve people, not the other way around.<

The upcoming U.S.-European Union summit in London (May 18) and the 50-year General Agreement on Tari

CUSTOMS MISLED EXPORTERSON HARBOR TAX REFUNDSShame on Customs!In a November 1994 Fed

Is Boris Berezovsky, Russia's billionaire financier, a schlemiel or a schlemazel? And as political a

With Asia's financial and economic crisis heating up again, now is not the time to put more pressur

Addressing students at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

It's becoming clearer by the day that Asia's economic crisis is not over. Indonesia has been in the

The ''Good Friday Agreement'' on Northern Ireland is the most encompassing and promising peace initi

A half century ago, when Soviet forces cut off all land routes to West Berlin, U.S. ''candy bombers'

This year, $20 billion of business will be done on the Internet. That's about the size of the econom

Central Asia is a part of the world little known to most Americans. But the tiny republic of Armenia

Every self-respecting country should protect and defend its auto industry at all costs, right? That

Hopeful sales reps of America's ''Big Six'' accounting firms are barnstorming China on what could we

TRADE AND ENVIRONMENTNEED CLOSER LINKU.S. Trade Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky's comments on

The Multilateral Agreement on Investment is too important to be allowed to lapse now that ministers

Secrecy breeds suspicion, and suspicion is what now surrounds Gus Owen, one of two members of the Su

This year's U.S. congressional debates over funding of scientific research seem to have more to do w

The era of big government may be over but apparently not the era of big government buildings.

TEXTILE PACTFALLS SHORTI am compelled to respond to the letter sent to you by Troy Cribb, th

A ''supplemental'' spending bill for almost a billion dollars in back dues to the United Nations was

President Clinton's unfortunate tendency to let base politics overwhelm his higher aspirations to li

In its third ballot, Russia's lower house of Parliament, the Duma, late last month confirmed Boris Y

Transportation Secretary Rodney Slater issued a strong statement recently saying the administration

South Africa's gold mines have been on a downhill slide for more than a decade. The price of their p

Nine years after its students rocked China's Communist leaders with their pro-democracy protests at

Every time a U.S. jury trial ends in a controversial verdict, commentators propose that juries be ab

Steps taken last weekend by 11 European Union nations toward eventually giving up their own currency

The Federal Reserve is back on center stage. It never completely left the stage, but the spotlight h

Should taxpayer money be used to develop technologies that will be licensed to foreign firms? That q

Does it get any better than this? The U.S. economy was supposed to have long since slowed down, a vi

Globalization breaks down borders - sometimes literally in the case of the European Union, andsometi

What a difference a decade makes. Ten years ago, as U.S. semiconductor makers absorbed bodyblows fr

Never has the global playing field been so competitive, nor the stakes for countries and multination

Memo to Teamsters:Fasten your seatbelts.A wild ride is about to begin.With the elect

Earlier this year, the line-item veto, Republicans' hard-won attempt to restrain a profligate federa

The American Insurance Association has this to say to candidates who complain that they're losing co