Current & Recent Op-Eds
Op-Eds 2003 - 2006
Op-Eds by Asia Society Chairman Richard Holbrooke
Transcripts

• The Sleeping Giant in American Politics (September 30, 2008)
• Enduring the Subprime Tsunami (September 23, 2008)
• Heeding the Lessons of the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis as Wall Street Bleeds (September 19, 2008)
• Where in the World is Kim Jong Il? (September 10, 2008)
• India's Olympic Reality Check (September 8, 2008)
• Farewell, Mr. Fukuda (September 5, 2008)
• Beijing's Triumph of Engineering (August 26, 2008)
• An Olympic Challenge for Clean Air (August 12, 2008)
• Why Pain at the Pump Hurts More Here (August 7, 2008)
• What's the beef on the South Korean president's low approval? (July 17, 2008)
• The New Yorker's Obama Cover: Fanning the Fire (July 15, 2008)
• Poor in the Philippines have two options: sink or swim (July 12, 2008)
• Between Yogis and Gurus, It May be Time to Get Smart (June 20, 2008)
• Cheap Goods Don't Come Cheap Any More (June 2, 2008)
• What Mr. Ban Can Do for Burma (May 23, 2008)
• Olympics present a chance to welcome China back into fold (May 13, 2008)
• Crisis: Burma's Agony (May 12, 2008)
• Remember the lessons from 1997 crisis (April 30, 2008)
• Rising prices' whirlwind effect (April 25, 2008)
• Gold Medals And Golden Opportunities (March 20, 2008)
• North Korea Extends Its Freedom Overture (March 11, 2008)
• Will the US Economy Drag East Asia Down With It? (January 25, 2008)
• It Costs Just $2,500. It's Cute as a Bug. And It Could Mean Global Disaster. (January 13, 2008)
• Asia in the World (December 6, 2007)
• Pakistan's Buddha statues are being attacked (November 11, 2007)
• A conflict of interests (October 14, 2007)
• Saffron Through the Firewall (October 9, 2007)
• Burma road goes through Beijing (October 3, 2007)
• Forget the Israel Lobby. The Hill's Next Big Player Is Made in India. (September 30, 2007)
• Confederation of Terror (September 15, 2007)
• Abe Resigns—Who Will Be the Biggest Losers? (September 13, 2007)
• India's Tough Choice on Iran (August 11, 2007)
• Big shoes to fill (on India's President Pratibha Patil) (July 26, 2007)
• U.S. should help Chinese regulate (July 15, 2007)
• Step Up the Fight Against Islamism (July 2007)
• Thailand's IP Gamble: Just Say 'No' To Big Pharma (July 2007)
• On North Korea, Hippocrates Not Hypocrisy (July 10, 2007)
• Importing America's Future (June 6, 2007)
• Lives at Stake in Drug Patent Clash (June 3, 2007)
• Drug spat strains global trade system (May 24, 2007)
• Feeling Like a Trillion Dollars (May 4, 2007)
• Sanjaya: Giving Them Something to Talk About (April 19, 2007)
• 'Holier Than Thou Politics of Comfort Women Apology' (April 4, 2007)
• Iran—Looking East (February 22, 2007)
• Why the Taliban Thrive in Pakistan (January 23, 2007)
• Stigma and Discrimination Fuel Spread of AIDS in China (January 23, 2007)
• Mongolia: March toward Democracy and Prosperity (January 18, 2007)

Op-Eds 2003 - 2006

• India Not Out of the Nuclear Wilderness (December 18, 2006)
• Man who fought world, was also blind to India (December 5, 2006)
• Poor Want a Job, Not Benevolence (December 2, 2006)
• Indonesia's Promise (November 20, 2006)
• Asia's Fickle Elites (September 22, 2006)
• Lest we forget Nepal (August 3, 2006)
• The other North Korean crisis (July 6, 2006)
• Defusing the HIV/AIDS time bomb (May 6, 2006)
• India must steer a middle path on generic drugs (March 23, 2005)
• China overshadows US attention to tsunami zone (January 28, 2005)
• Asia women's next obstacle: AIDS (December 1, 2004)
• Asia missing from US election debate (October 6, 2004)
• It's time to get together again; U.S.-Philippines (September 8, 2004)
• China's 'Peaceful Rise' overshadowing US influence in Asia? (December 8, 2003)

Richard Holbrooke Op-Eds

Chairman of the Asia Society Richard Holbrooke writes a monthly column for The Washington Post. The following is a selection of columns pertinent to his role at the Asia Society.

• Hope in Pakistan (March 21, 2008)
• Still Wrong in Afghanistan (January 23, 2008)
• Still Losing the AIDS Fight (October 9, 2007)

Transcripts

• Jan Egeland, UN Under-Secretary for Humanitarian Relief; Sen. Bill Frist (R-TN), Senate Majority Leader; Richard Holbrooke, Former US Ambassador to the UN; Michael Elliott, International Editor (Asia), Time - The Charlie Rose Show (January 3, 2005)