Geopolitical Issues

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Google and Apple App Stores Under Fire in South Korea

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Vocabulary & Expressions

be under fire: 공격을 받다
We know the big app stores are under fire and the latest heat here is coming from South Korea lawmakers there…

push back: 반발하다, 반박하다
fraud: 사기
undermine: 약화시키다
Apple though already pushing back on all this saying in a statement that the bill will put users who purchase digital goods from other sources at risk of fraud undermine their privacy protections impact user trust in app store purchases…

navigate: (힘들거나 복잡한 상황을) 다루다, 처리하다
…other companies and industries is gonna have to continue navigating this ongoing chip shortage…
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What is Happening in Afghanistan?

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Vocabulary & Expressions

melt away: (점차적으로) 해산하다
The Afghan national forces, the government forces just melted away…

noncombatant evacuation operation: 비전투원 후송작전
Now what we’re doing is what’s called noncombatant evacuation operation…

fundamentalist: 근본주의, 원리주의
The Taliban is actually very fundamentalist Sunni Islamic group…

tribal: 부족의, 종족의
It’s a rough grouping of a lot of tribal elements around Afghanistan.

tide: 흐름
And that we can’t really stop the tide of where the Taliban and where Afghanistan is going.

pull out: 빠져나오다, 손을 떼다
So we are pulling out.

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G7 Passes Key ‘Historic’ Tax Reforms

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Vocabulary & Expressions

tax haven: 조세 피난처
level the playing field: 공평한 경쟁의 장을 만들다
Whether it’s people operating in tax havens or it’s digital companies, we’re going to level the playing field and inject that principle of fairness into our global tax system.

come down to: ~로 설명되다, ~로 요약되다
The details are complex but the deal the G7 finance ministers have agreed comes down to two key reforms.

jurisdiction: 관할권, 사법권
…shifting profits to low-tax jurisdictions and new rules to calculate what they owe …

revival of multilateralism:다자주의의 부활
What you’re seeing is a revival of multilateralism, a willingness of leading nations in the G7 …

watershed: 분수령
It represents a real watershed.

League of Nations: 국제연맹 (1920~46, 유엔의 전신)
The last time there was a global deal on business taxation was all the way back a century ago by the League of Nations.

stem the tide: 흐름을 끊다
In theory, this deal could bring in billions for the U.K. In theory, it could stem the tide of tax avoidance.

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