U.S. Should Encourage Strong Japan-India Relations Jeffrey Meyer The Foundry The Heritage Foundation India is steadily emerging to be one of the world’s top economic players but still faces development challenges and infrastructure bottlenecks that hinder growth. Heritage’s Lisa Curtis has been arguing that the U.S. needs to acknowledge India’s growing global role and the [...]
United States Affirms Military Realignment Plan in Japan Bruce Klingner The Foundry The Heritage Foundation During bilateral security talks, Washington and Tokyo affirmed their commitment to the 2009 bilateral Guam Agreement, which delineates the planned realignment of U.S. military forces in Japan. The June 21 Security Consultative Talks—comprised of Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, Secretary [...]
The Department of Energy Should Not Be the Green Banker By Nicolas Loris and Jack Spencer The Heritage Foundation Abstract: The Clean Energy Deployment Administration (CEDA) proposed in the Clean Energy Financing Act would act as a “green bank” to provide loan guarantees to energy and automotive projects that Washington deems worthy. Similar to President [...]
Israel and the Iron Dome System: A Lesson for the United States By Baker Spring and Michaela Bendikova The Heritage Foundation Since Israel deployed its new Iron Dome artillery and rocket interceptor system in April, it successfully used it to shoot down Hamas Grad rockets. The Israeli experience with Iron Dome shows that the criterion of cost [...]
The U.S. Needs a Real Partner in the New Japanese Prime Minister By Bruce Klingner and Derek Scissors, Ph.D. The Heritage Foundation As dependable as the tide, a new prime minister has washed ashore in Japan. Finance Minister Yoshihiko Noda is the latest iteration of what has become an annual ritual of Japanese leadership change. [...]
Theft of Food Aid in Somalia Should Lead to Congressional Oversight By Brett Schaefer and Morgan Roach The Heritage Foundation This summer, the Horn of Africa confronted its worst drought in decades. Estimates indicate that more than 12 million people across the region are vulnerable to starvation. Somalia, lacking a credible government and beset by [...]
Zero New Jobs in America Mike Brownfield The Morning Bell The Heritage Network President Obama enters this Labor Day weekend with a serious problem on his hands. For all intents and purposes, the economy appears to be stuck in neutral, with news out today that the U.S. economy created a grand total of zero jobs [...]
The U.S. Cannot Rely on ASEAN in the South China Sea By Walter Lohman The Heritage Foundation For weeks now, commentary has been flying about the “progress” made on the South China Sea dispute at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) annual foreign minister consultations in Bali. Because America’s approach to Southeast Asia, and [...]
After Oslo: Lessons for the United States By James Jay Carafano, Ph.D. The Heritage Foundation Last Friday, tragedy struck Oslo, Norway, as homegrown terrorist Anders Behring Breivik detonated a car bomb in the heart of the city and then traveled to a nearby island and opened fire on a youth camp. In a mere [...]
Talks about Talking Okay, but the Ball Is in Pyongyang’s Court By Bruce Klingner The Heritage Foundation Surprise meetings between North and South Korean nuclear negotiators this weekend and Washington’s subsequent invitation to Pyongyang for bilateral talks in New York are significant for their occurrence. However, it is premature to see them as a breakthrough [...]
Tax Hikes Not Needed to Balance Budget By Curtis Dubay The Heritage Foundation To get federal finances in order, conventional wisdom says we must both cut spending and “enhance revenues” (i.e., increase taxes). But conventional wisdom is dead wrong. The Congressional Budget Office says so. Last week, the CBO reported that if Congress simply left [...]
China’s Economy Weakens: Implications for the U.S. By Derek Scissors, Ph.D. The Heritage Foundation China compiled its economic data for the first half of the year in less than two weeks. This is not nearly enough time to survey 1.36 billion people unless very powerful assumptions are made. The State Statistical Bureau (SSB) routinely makes very [...]
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