{"id":3364,"date":"2014-07-23T08:34:58","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T23:34:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=3364"},"modified":"2014-11-04T14:37:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-04T05:37:12","slug":"723-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/?p=3364","title":{"rendered":"7\/23 Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Armed conflicts around the world continued this week. Commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Eugene Robinson writes in the <\/span>Washington Post<\/i><\/a>, \u201cI am simply stating the obvious: Nobody really wants to make peace.\u201d While the U.S. should try to minimize outright violence, he says, \u201crealistic U.S. policy in the Middle East should assume that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue indefinitely.\u201d The <\/span>Financial Times<\/i><\/a>, too, calls the conflict a \u201cdesolate picture\u201d that \u201crarely varies much,\u201d suggesting that there remains only one way out of the bloody stalemate: \u201cPalestinians need a state of their own.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The conflict in Ukraine, meanwhile, has taken on a new dimension with the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The <\/span>New York Times<\/i><\/a> writes that whoever is responsible is \u201ca war criminal.\u201d Investigation of the crash site, however, has been hampered by \u201cRussian-backed rebels who have controlled the incompetent searches.\u201d The result? New pressure is on European leaders to \u201cenforce more stringent sanctions against Russia if it fails to cooperate.\u201d But Europe has reason to be tepid about such sanctions. The <\/span>Washington Post<\/i><\/a> reports on a recent study that warns that if Russia were to cut off natural gas exports, \u201cWinter demand could not be satisfied\u201d in Europe. If now forced to react, Europeans \u201cmay be facing a cold winter.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the world, Australia faces its own energy-related challenges as it tries to balance environmental and economic concerns. The <\/span>New York Times<\/i><\/a> reports that a tax on corporate carbon emissions there has been repealed. While critics say this move makes Australia \u201cthe first country to reverse progress on fighting climate change,\u201d Prime Minister Tony Abbot called the defunct tax \u201ca $9 billion handbrake on our economy.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But perhaps pro-economic and pro-environment forces need not always be opposed. <\/span>Euromoney<\/i><\/a> writes that \u201cFor an asset class that accounts for less than 1% of the corporate bond market, green bonds have been attracting an awful lot of attention,\u201d noting, however, that \u201cjust how motivated this [invested] money is by the green nature of the bonds\u2026. is unclear.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

And environment aside, the U.S. economy continues to drag its feet. <\/span>The Economist<\/i><\/a> writes that \u201cevidence is mounting that America\u2019s potential growth rate has plummeted\u2026. Solving the short-term problem means boosting demand\u2026. But to pep up long-term growth, America also needs to address the supply side. In particular, it needs more workers and faster increases in productivity.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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To see the overseas media\u2019s takes on these and other developments, you can browse the Global News highlights in app or at <\/span>http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/<\/a>. Links to the original sources are provided above, but please note these are frequently updated. Links that were valid at publication may later be broken.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Armed conflicts around the world continued this week. Commenting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Eugene Robinson writes in the Washington Post, \u201cI am simply stating the obvious: Nobody really wants to make peace.\u201d While the U.S. should try to minimize outright violence, he says, \u201crealistic U.S. policy in the Middle East should assume that the Israeli-Palestinian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3387],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-irc-weekly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3364"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3365,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3364\/revisions\/3365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.irken.jp\/gn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}