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China in Africa
THE six-nation Africa tour by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acquired new significance when on the eve of his departure he launched into an attack on Chinese investment in the continent, accusing it of corruption. Despite President Trump’s reported bad-mouthing of African states, Washington seems to be setting out to revive its engagement with African states.During the Cold War, Washington fought a proxy battle with Moscow in Africa. The Americans armed and backed regimes that said they opposed Communists. The Soviets gave their support to regimes that claimed they were Communist or at least socialist. The interesting exception was the post-independence Tanzanian government of Julius Nyerere. His “oujama” village cooperative scheme eventually failed. But it was arguably the only...
March 07, 2018

China in Africa

After 65 years, is peace finally coming to Korea?
THERE are moments in history which appear to be pivotal, when the hopes and fears of generations seem set to melt away. Is the sudden rapprochement between the nuclear-armed hermit regime of North Korea and its compatriots in the south of this divided country really such a moment?Yesterday a summit next month was announced between the presidents of North and South Korea. A high level delegation from south has just visited Pyongyang where it was given the red carpet treatment and dined with Pyongyang’s leader Kim Jong-un. Afterward it was reported merely that further talks had been agreed. The news that Kim will soon meet South Korean President Moon Jae-in was a surprise. The encounter may have been finalized over the newly-reinstalled hot line between Pyongyang and Seoul.The groundwork...
March 07, 2018

After 65 years, is peace finally coming to Korea?

Italians vote for intolerance?
EVEN though there were still votes to count, by Sunday night Italy’s general election was all over bar the shouting. And this being Italy, there now seems set to be a lot of shouting. That noise will almost certainly be louder than usual because the coalition government that must be built is likely to consist of right-wing politicians who have ridden on anti-migrant ticket.The outgoing left-of-center government Matteo Renzi has been rejected decisively. The once-bright political star of the outgoing prime minister faded because of his perceived failure to tackle the country’s financial problems. In fact Renzi has overseen Italy’s slow but steady recovery over the last four years and unemployment, which topped 13 percent in 2014, fell to something over ten percent at the end of last...
March 06, 2018

Italians vote for intolerance?

India’s banking fraud: Some questions
THE lower house of Indian Parliament reconvenes today for the second half of the budget session. The first half ended without transacting much business because of protests by members from Andhra Pradesh over the issue of Special Category Status to their southern state. But the second half is likely to be dominated by $1.77 billion bank fraud that has shaken confidence in India’s state-dominated banking system. The opposition will surely raise the issue in Parliament.Did not the BJP stall an entire winter session of Parliament demanding a probe into the alleged corruption in the allocation of 2G spectrum during the time of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) government? This was BJP’s top plank against the Congress before and after the 2014 general elections that it won...
March 05, 2018

India’s banking fraud: Some questions

No German passport, no free food
The German charity Essener Tafel claims its decision to bar foreigners from receiving free food has nothing to do with xenophobia, however, such a step says otherwise.Essener Tafel, an NGO, serves about 16,000 poor people in the city of Essen, an industrial hub in the west. But in the wake of what the food bank says is its resources being stretched to the limit, the charity recently decided to lessen its generosity. No German passport, no free food.Essener Tafel officials said the policy is not xenophobic but rather a response to a food-shortage crisis. That claim is dubious. For one, like hundreds of other German food banks, Essener Tafel collects surplus food at or past its sell-by date, which would otherwise be thrown away. That food that would have been discarded by supermarkets,...
March 04, 2018

No German passport, no free food

A new anti-Palestinian bill
The new bill introduced by an Israeli minister that would allow land disputes in the occupied West Bank to be settled by a district court rather than being reviewed by the state’s High Court is yet another attempt to extend Israel’s illegal jurisdiction over more occupied Palestinian land.What the bill means is that the High Court will no longer be the court of first instance for Palestinian responses to Israeli decisions on planning and construction, entry and exit from the territories, and freedom of information requests. In effect, the bill denies the Palestinians access to the Israeli High Court, especially in cases of their rights in their land.The move is being justified as an attempt to reduce the High Court’s caseload; however, High Court justices are known to be critical of...
March 03, 2018

A new anti-Palestinian bill

The IOC readmits Russia
The decision by the International Olympic Committee to restore Russia to full membership has produced murmurs of disquiet. There is no doubt that since at least the 2015 Sochi Winter Olympics, a significant number of Russian athletes were cheating and using performance enhancing-drugs. The Russian government has admitted there was wrongdoing.What the Kremlin has always denied were allegations that this doping was state-sponsored.IOC investigators had evidence that during the Winter Games in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, the FSB, successor to the state intelligence agency the KGB, was involved in the swapping of blood samples brought to official testing laboratories. For the Russian government to protest its innocence also meant that it was admitting that part of its intelligence...
March 02, 2018

The IOC readmits Russia

The Taliban are offered talks
In recent years, a key rationale for continued US involvement in Afghanistan, its longest ever war, is that once the Taliban have been pushed onto the back foot, they would be prepared to come to the negotiating table. Weakened rebels would be ready to compromise.The reality, of course, is that with each new fighting season, the Taliban are getting stronger. Most NATO troops have withdrawn leaving the Americans. Foreign instructors still train Afghan police and army but military analysts accept that but for the US intelligence and air strike capacity, along with its command and control systems, the Taliban would probably have marched into Kabul by now.Thus this week’s offer by Afghan president Ashraf Ghani of unconditional talks with the Taliban would appear to be too little and far too...
March 01, 2018

The Taliban are offered talks

Smartphones too smart for their own good?
When in 2007 Apple’s late company-founder Steve Jobs walked alone onto a stage to show off the world’s first real smartphone, it was not just the technology that had changed. The iPhone set a new standard in design. Eleven years on, the original phone may look brick-like compared with today’s super-sleek phones, but at the time its look and feel was revolutionary. And the phone brought about a revolution at Apple itself, turning it into the world’s richest company.The smartphone’s arrival triggered software developers into producing increasingly clever programs. The corporate world, for which the standard mobile technology had until then been the Blackberry or the Nokia Communicator, with tiny keyboards, found itself adopting the smartphone, less out of choice but rather because...
February 28, 2018

Smartphones too smart for their own good?

Inscrutable China?
IT seems almost certain that China’s constitution will be changed to allow President Xi Jinping a third consecutive five-year term. Deng Xiaoping’s radical economic reforms enshrined in the 1982 constitution also sought to build in a limit of 10 years to the presidency. In actual fact power rests with the chairmanship of the Communist party, which Xi already holds, to which there is no set time limit. He is also chairman of the Central Military Commission, a position which again has no limitation on its tenure.Besides unleashing China’s remarkable economic growth of the last 30 years, Deng sought to avoid the appearance of another capricious “emperor” in the style of Mao Zedong. He wanted to vest power in the Communist party and ensure that it was revitalized with fresh...
February 27, 2018

Inscrutable China?

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