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UN General Assembly Opens in New York—But Online

Op/Ed by Metzler September 24, 2020September 23, 2020

Presidents, Prime Ministers and Kings are set to attend the opening debate of the UN General Assembly; but online. The 75th anniversary session of the Assembly was planned as a gala gathering of chiefs of…

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Pandemic Paranoia Contrasts With September 11 Resolve

Op/Ed by Metzler September 17, 2020

Viewing the sorrowful September 11 commemorations, I was instantly transported back nineteen years to the terrorist attacks on America. As I wrote back then, “On a picture perfect September morning, the Grim Reaper visited New…

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The Pandemic’s Political Haze

Op/Ed by Metzler September 3, 2020

Nearly six months into the Covid-19 pandemic, the United States remains mired in the nebulous haze of the “invisible enemy,” suffering greatly both physically and emotionally. We have been battered and bruised economically and most…

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Health Focus of High Level U.S. Official’s Taiwan Trip

Op/Ed by Metzler August 20, 2020August 19, 2020

A visit by an American Secretary of Health to an East Asian ally would seemingly not register much media attention, especially during the Summer. But in the age of global Corona and the deadly spread…

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Tears For Lebanon

Op/Ed by Metzler August 13, 2020August 12, 2020

The massive double blast which rocked Beirut harbor brought near cataclysmic damage to the Lebanese capital. Yet as the dust settled on this tragedy, with 200 dead and 5,000 injured, the political and economic reverberations…

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Beijing Hackers Target Vatican

Op/Ed by Metzler August 5, 2020August 5, 2020

PHOTO: The Paul VI Audience Hall in Rome/ Vatican City The story comes right out of a Dan Brown mystery thriller in which Vatican secrets are targeted by State sponsored computer hackers. Yet according to…

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Turkey’s Erdogan Sparks Controversy in Hagia Sophia Conversion

Op/Ed by Metzler July 30, 2020July 28, 2020

Its very name Hagia Sophia evokes the ancient mysteries of Byzantium. Its setting along the Golden Horn on the majestic Bosphorus joining Europe and Asia in itself serves as a beacon for uniting world religions.…

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AG Barr Sweeps Back Curtain on China’s Communists

Op/Ed by Metzler July 21, 2020July 20, 2020

In a sweeping, scathing and searingly poignant speech, U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr swept back the curtain on China’s communist regime in a tour de force rarely seen. His focus centered not only on China’s…

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UN Security Council Deadlock Fails Starving Syria

Op/Ed by Metzler July 17, 2020July 17, 2020

A devastating decade old war, a deteriorating humanitarian situation, and a deplorable inability of the international community to stop the conflict, underscores Syria’s tragic fate.The failure of the UN Security Council to ease the suffering,…

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Hong Kong’s Weathervane

Op/Ed by Metzler July 9, 2020

Beijing’s tightening noose on Hong Kong foretells many things both in the successful city state as much as throughout the opaque vastness of China itself. Clearly, the widening communist political crackdown on Hong Kong’s rights…

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Korea’s “Forgotten War” Key to Future Asian Peace

Op/Ed by Metzler July 1, 2020June 30, 2020

Seventy years ago, on June 25 1950, North Korean troops attacked South Korea launching an unexpected military blitz. Kim Il-sung’s communists had as their aim the forcible reunification of the divided Korean peninsula, itself a…

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UN Security Council Musical Chairs

Op/Ed by Metzler June 26, 2020June 23, 2020

It’s one of those Rites of late Spring when members of the UN’s General Assembly come together to choose five new non-permanent members of the fifteen-member Security Council. But what’s usually a spirited but pro-forma…

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Is America Turning the Economic Corner?

Op/Ed by Metzler June 10, 2020June 10, 2020

Defying all expectations, the U.S. job numbers surged back in early June in a surprise and stunning rebound. While the usual gaggle of “experts” were somberly predicting an additional eight or nine million job losses,…

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Beijing’s Hong Kong Squeeze

Op/Ed by Metzler June 4, 2020

The crisis was brewing for months. Storm clouds were gathering around Hong Kong’s splendid bay as China’s communist authorities have put the vice grip squeeze on democratic Hong Kong’s political rights and social freedoms. The…

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China’s Virtual Victory at WHO, Real Crackdown in Hong Kong

Op/Ed by Metzler May 28, 2020May 26, 2020

PHOTO: Hong Kong’s Goddess of Democracy at sunset .. A 6.4-metre faux bronze statue sculpted by Chen Weiming, inspired by the original 10-metre tall papier-mâché statue erected by the Chinese pro-democracy movement in Tiananmen Square at the end of May 1989, and destroyed…

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UN General Assembly Opens in New York—But Online

Pandemic Paranoia Contrasts With September 11 Resolve

The Pandemic’s Political Haze

Health Focus of High Level U.S. Official’s Taiwan Trip

Tears For Lebanon

Beijing Hackers Target Vatican

Turkey’s Erdogan Sparks Controversy in Hagia Sophia Conversion

AG Barr Sweeps Back Curtain on China’s Communists

UN Security Council Deadlock Fails Starving Syria

Hong Kong’s Weathervane

Korea’s “Forgotten War” Key to Future Asian Peace

UN Security Council Musical Chairs

Is America Turning the Economic Corner?

Beijing’s Hong Kong Squeeze

China’s Virtual Victory at WHO, Real Crackdown in Hong Kong