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The national identity gap between China and the United States has become increasingly apparent. Under Xi Jinping, China has sought to reclaim its historical greatness and proclaimed itself to be…

The start of the Biden administration demonstrated how far Russo-U.S. relations had sunk. On the heels of the massive cyber-hacking of U.S. government files, attributed to Russia, hearings for Biden’s…

The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most significant economic disruption to the international economy since the Great Depression. The IMF estimates that the global economy contracted by 3.5 percent last…

KEI’s 2021 Report on American Attitudes on the U.S.-ROK Alliance and North Korea Policy summarizes results from a survey commissioned by KEI and conducted by YouGov on May 6th to…

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By Yeaji Nam South Koreans are suffering from record-setting air pollution. Among the OECD member countries, South Korea recorded the second highest ultra-fine dust levels in 2018. In addition, Seoul was ranked first on poor air quality among the major capital cities around the world. This level of air pollution is a major threat to…

By Phil Eskeland The U.S. Department of Commerce released its monthly trade data for January, which encompassed 4th Quarter 2018 statistics on trade in services with 15 individual countries, including South Korea.  Once again, the U.S. maintained its bilateral trade surplus in services with Korea because of yet another record-level of U.S. service exports to…

By Haram Chung The World Trade Organization (WTO) authorized South Korea to levy $85 million in tariffs on U.S. products as compensation for the improper way the U.S. calculated higher anti-dumping duties on Korean-made large residential washing machines. Apart from this, however, there was a controversy over the U.S.'s safeguard, which imposed another tariff on…

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