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Rome takes on Brussels
Italy’s center-right coalition government is on a collision course with Brussels which has rejected its budget on the grounds that the planned higher spending breaks eurozone rules. Eurocrats claim it could derail the EU’s third largest economy, which carries a national debt burden in GDP terms, second only to that of Greece. Matteo Salvini, Italy’s deputy premier and the real power in the government, has said defiantly that the move from Brussels “doesn’t change anything”.What looks to be happening in Italy in some key respects already parallels events in Greece in 2015. There, the left-wing Syriza party of Alexis Tsipras won power with a mandate to reject a third EU bailout and further loans which it said would cripple the Greek economy for years and leave its citizens...
October 25, 2018

Rome takes on Brussels

Can Putin afford a new arms race?
The 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty between Moscow and Washington heralded a sea-change in the superpower rivalry between the United States and the then Soviet Union. A welcome tide of peace and security was coming in. More than 30 years on, President Donald Trump’s repudiation of the INF reflects the unfortunate reality that that tide of peace and security is going out.The treaty banned ground-launched medium-range missiles, with a range of between 500 and 5,500km. President Vladimir Putin’s Russia appeared to have violated the agreement in 2013. President Barack Obama protested but, as with so much else in his vacillating and lackluster administration, did not push the issue further.And it must be wondered if either side to this deal ever actually stopped research...
October 24, 2018

Can Putin afford a new arms race?

A doomed march to America
The footage of a marching column of thousands of Honduran refugees advancing resolutely on the United States border is making outstanding television. This group of desperate people, including women, children and babes in arms, has already barged its way across Guatemala. Though blocked on a border river bridge into Mexico, many of the refugees managed to cross on rafts. Then on Sunday they faced down a line of armed Mexican policemen who were finally ordered to retreat. Unless the Mexican government manages to stem this human tide, it is going to wash up against the US border fence along its frontier with Mexico, where President Donald Trump has vowed to stop them.Honduras, from which the majority of these refugees come, along with El Salvador and Guatemala, comprise a three-country...
October 23, 2018

A doomed march to America

Inter-Korean engagement
A high-level South Korean delegation visited a site in the border county of Cheorwon, Gangwon, Wednesday to check on a landmine removal operation. This was to show the South’s resolve to fulfill the agreements signed by President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang last month.In Pyongyang, the two leaders agreed to “expand the cessation of military hostilities in regions of confrontation such as the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ).” They also agreed to turn the DMZ into a peace zone by the end of this year and disarm the Joint Security Area (JSA) at Panmunjom where soldiers from the two sides have stood face to face for decades. Following through on this agreement, military officials of the two Koreas and the United Nations Command (UNC) held their first trilateral...
October 22, 2018

Inter-Korean engagement

Olympic-size scandal
That a Japanese hydraulics company has admitted manipulating earthquake safety data for almost 1,000 buildings across Japan, including venues for the 2020 Tokyo Summer Games, shows just how far the pursuit of greater profits can go, to the extent of putting people’s lives in jeopardy.The Tokyo-based KYB released an incomplete list of the affected buildings. Reports indicate they include government offices, the 634-meter Tokyo Skytree, and the Ariake Arena and the Olympics Aquatics Center, the latter two being venues for the 2020 Games.KYB executives said at least eight employees had deliberately fudged data to save time and avoid delivery delays. Its president apologized at a press conference and promised all of the affected products would be replaced.Still, several serious concerns...
October 21, 2018

Olympic-size scandal

Stone that killed a mother
ALTHOUGH a gag order has been placed on the case, there has been no shortage of outpouring of grief for Aisha Rabi, the Palestinian mother of eight killed by a stone most likely thrown by a settler. Yakoub Rabi was driving with his wife Aisha after dark along a main road near the Palestinian city of Nablus. He could not see who pelted the car with a stone and he lost control and crashed. Reports have differed on whether Aisha was killed by the crash or by the stone itself. Yakoub has said the rock hit his wife directly in the head and was the cause of her death. Yakoub said he heard people he believes were responsible speaking Hebrew. Although authorities have not ruled out the possibility that a group of Palestinian stone-throwers mistook Rabi’s vehicle for that of an Israeli, the Shin...
October 20, 2018

Stone that killed a mother

Cyber-warfare’s own perils
TWO world wars in the last century saw tens of millions of casualties in what was still essentially hand-to-hand fighting. But bomber aircraft changed the face of conflict. Bombing by massed formations of Allied aircraft over Nazi Germany made up for the lack of precision technology by carpeting towns and cities with incendiaries and high explosives. By 1945, so great had been the devastation caused, the Americans and British had virtually run out of fresh targets. This led to the still highly-controversial aerial destruction of Dresden on the grounds that this historic city, which had up until then been largely untouched, was near a railway junction. It was the catastrophic consequences of the US atomic bomb attacks on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki that proved the awesome...
October 19, 2018

Cyber-warfare’s own perils

Legalizing catastrophe
All around the world, there are laws against serious offenses such as robbery, kidnap and murder, yet robberies, kidnappings and murders continue to happen. Is the fact that these crimes are still being committed any reason to get rid of the laws that forbid them? No civilized society should consider making a crime “legal” simply because it fails to stop people committing it.Yet among the most prominent arguments for the legalizing of drugs is that legislation designed to defeat its production, distribution and consumption has failed to stop the narcotics trade. This was one of the principles that underpinned the Canadian government’s decision to legalize the production and use of cannabis. The laws forbidding these have been abolished and, with much media fanfare, yesterday the...
October 18, 2018

Legalizing catastrophe

Beijing’s Xinjiang behavior
The Chinese government says it is wrestling with three forces of evil in its northwestern province of Xinjiang. These it lists as terrorism, extremism and separatism. No one could question its dedication to eradicating the scourge of terrorism to which all civilized nations have committed themselves. And separatism clearly represents a danger in a country of such varied ethnicities as China. Just as the United States sets out to instill patriotism in all its citizens, whose forebears lived all over the world, so Beijing wants all its people to be proud of their country and its long and remarkable history.Where the Chinese approach to Xinjiang becomes murky, if not indeed troubling, is in what the authorities term “extremism”. The restrictions imposed on the ethnic Uighur population of...
October 17, 2018

Beijing’s Xinjiang behavior

A deadly error
Trying to steal a rival political party’s clothes is not always a good idea. At best it can dilute the guiding vision that allows one set of politicians to differentiate themselves from another. Thus parties can be fighting over the same center ground, wrestling to become “moderates of the extreme center” while voters on either side of the debate do not see their views being represented.At worst, filching a rival’s policies in an attempt to wrong foot them with the electorate can be downright dangerous, as Bavaria’s Christian Social Union (CSU) has just discovered. The CSU has been an immovable force in southern Germany for much of the last 60 years. More importantly, this center-right party has regularly been a key ally for the country’s Christian Democrats (CDU), currently...
October 16, 2018

A deadly error

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