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Editor's note
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The world reacted to North Korea’s successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile this week with a mixture of fear and outrage. President Trump, for his part, used Twitter to wag a finger at China, accusing President Xi of boosting trade with Kim Jong-un’s regime rather than sanctioning it as promised. Trump has a point, argues economist Greg Wright. China has tremendous leverage over North Korea yet appears to have done very little to rein in its nuclear-tipped saber-rattling. The University of California, Merced professor
took a closer look at North Korean trade flows, which show just how much pull China has.
On his way to the G-20 summit in Germany, Trump visited Poland yesterday. University of Michigan’s Brian Porter-Szücs was in Warsaw for the president’s visit. The historian helps us look past the flag-waving crowds to numbers that reveal how popular Trump really is with Poles.
This weekend the artist Andrew Wyeth would have turned 100. At one point, Life magazine called Wyeth “America’s preeminent painter”; 20 years later, a critic wrote that viewing a Wyeth painting was “like sledding on dirt.” Case Western Reserve art historian Henry Adams explores the cultural, political and personal forces that shaped Wyeth’s polarizing legacy.
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Bryan Keogh
Editor, Economics and Business
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Top story
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Chinese President Xi Jinping may be the only person able to rein in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
AP Photo/Wong Maye-E, Michael Dinneen
Greg Wright, University of California, Merced
China is North Korea's biggest trading partner by far, giving the former a great deal of leverage over the behavior of its neighbor.
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Politics + Society
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Brian Porter-Szücs, University of Michigan
A historian who studies Poland witnesses the president’s visit to Warsaw, and casts a skeptical eye at the crowd that took in the president’s speech.
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Sarah Snyder, American University School of International Service
Congress is trying to curb the president's ties to human rights abusers, harkening back to landmark legislation of the 1970s.
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From our International Editions
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James Dwyer, University of Tasmania
Intercontinental ballistic missiles, such as the one tested by North Korea this week, fly far too high and fast for current missile defence systems to engage with.
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Catherine Rosenberg, University of Waterloo; Lukasz Golab, University of Waterloo
Data suggests a smart-meter plan to shift electricity use to off-peak hours has had almost no impact.
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Ben Woodcock, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Here's how to take the sting out of these harmful pesticides.
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Today’s Chart
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Greg Wright
University of California, Merced
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