On April 14, US President Donald Trump announced that the United States was suspending funding to the World Health Organization. Here is my statement: New York April 15, 2020 Cutting…
read more Reflections Before the Trump Inauguration https://jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/before-trump-inaugural.jpg 1160 629 Jamie Metzl //jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png
The day before the inauguration of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the level of anxiety and uncertainty among the majority of Americans is dangerously high. Whatever critiques…
read moreWarning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/wp-content/themes/movedo/includes/grve-blog-functions.php on line 1139
Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/wp-content/themes/movedo/includes/grve-blog-functions.php on line 1140
Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/wp-content/themes/movedo/includes/grve-blog-functions.php on line 1141
President Obama Should Visit Hiroshima Jamie Metzl //jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png
President Obama should visit Hiroshima when he will be in Japan for the G7 Summit in Ise-Shima in late May. If he does, he will be the first sitting US…
read more China Still Holds the Key for Getting Tough with Pyongyang https://jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Jamie Metzl //jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png
Only China has the means of taking action that could alter North Korea’s behavior—by cutting back trade, tourism, and food and energy assistance to Pyongyang—but China will still be unlikely to take these kinds of strong measures for fear of destabilizing the North Korean regime. Such a policy undermines security in North Asia and should not be cost free for Beijing. read more
Korea-Japan Agreement on “Comfort Women” https://jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/themes/movedo/images/empty/thumbnail.jpg 150 150 Jamie Metzl //jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png
The deal between Japan and Korea on the “comfort women” issue is a positive step for both countries. Japan committed terrible atrocities before and during WWII and, as I’ve written…
read moreWarning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/wp-content/themes/movedo/includes/grve-blog-functions.php on line 1139
Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/wp-content/themes/movedo/includes/grve-blog-functions.php on line 1140
Warning: Trying to access array offset on value of type bool in /var/www/wp-content/themes/movedo/includes/grve-blog-functions.php on line 1141
Korea’s Free Trade Future Jamie Metzl //jamiemetzl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/logo-trans-rev-685px.png
In my keynote address last week in Seoul at the Ministry of Trade, Industry, and Energy Foreign Investment Week summit, cohosted by KOTRA and Invest Korea, I argued that Korea…
read more