Commentary

The Cold War is done. The Allies' export controls have worked. It's time to dismantle what remains o

CHINESE LEADERS, who touted economic reforms with a slogan about "smashing the three irons" of guara

NO WAY TO HELP US SHIPYARDSI am writing to echo the opinion of Rep. Jack Fields, R-Texas, on

MIRROR MIRROR ON THE WALL, who's the fairest trader of all? That's a question more and more

In the wake of last week's Danish "no" vote on European unification, one question is being asked rep

Random notes from the battle for the economy that you probably did not read in your daily newspaper:

LIKE THE CAVALRY riding to the rescue, Congress for the second straight year is saddling up to stop

ISRAELI CONTROLS in the troubled Gaza region are interfering with business on both sides of the bord

Horse racing made a comeback of sorts in China when Guangzhou held "The Golden Horse Cup" this April

Now that network news stories on the nation's urban crisis are featured before the first commercial

TRADE TALKS: LET'S GET ON WITH ITLet's be optimistic about the Uruguay Round of the General

ALTHOUGH CHINA AND TAIWAN are at odds over Taiwan's admission to the GATT, there are signs their rel

DENMARK'S VOTE rejecting European unification has politicians there in a quandary, but for those sti

A chart can sometimes match a picture and be worth at least a thousand words. Consider the c

It all appeared to be going so well. After five years of explosive growth, Thailand was internationa

Eastern Europe is a front-line victim of Denmark's rejection of the Maastricht Treaty. The E

Major reforms in the U.S. foreign aid program may come next year, administration and congressional s

Contrary to popular belief, the most powerful man in Thailand is not the general with the most guns,

As if servicing a $63 billion foreign debt wasn't enough, economic reforms recommended by the Intern

SCORE ONE for common sense. The Interstate Commerce Commission decided last week that trucking compa

THREE YEARS after army tanks crushed a budding democracy movement in Beijing, hundreds of protesters

President Bush's recent executive order on infrastructure privatization could start a flood of creat

READING THIS ECONOMIC RECOVERY is like reading ink blots - you can see something different every tim

Just when you thought everyone had forgotten about it, Prohibition is about to make a comeback. Not

Environmental and human rights groups often announce their "worst polluter" or "most repressive" lis

DENMARK'S SHOCKING DECISION to reject the "New Europe" doesn't kill plans for a political and econom

DESPITE THE END of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, U.S. officials had refused

FINANCIAL TITANS are fighting over the investment dollars in corporate pensionplans.

Two key House members have painted an $11 billion picture of the ways to reduce U.S. multinational c

WASHINGTON SHOULD HELP OIL INDUSTRYThe U.S. government finally is going to bat for o

The Bush administration says it takes international trade liberalization seriously. Success in the w

IF A REMINDER IS NEEDED of the need for international environmental cooperation, it is supplied by R

The primary campaign ended with a whimper this week. While George Bush and Bill Clinton won nominati

Yoko Nakagawa, 26, is able and highly intelligent, a graduate of one of Japan's best universities, a

A year ago, today's Earth Summit in Brazil was viewed by many throughout the world as perhaps the mo

THE EARTH SUMMIT that begins today in Brazil is much less than it could have been. Instead of strong

As we get closer to the U.N. Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro, the debate

SHIPBUILDERS NEED TRADE REMEDIESWhile The Journal of Commerce certainly has every right to d

There's been a lot of gloating in France and Britain over the economic and political problems that h

THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY has been congratulating itself lately for revising its bloated farm subsidy p