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Xi Jinping: New era and challenges
THERE may have been many people within the Chinese Communist Party and outside who did not agree with the party’s decision to confirm President Xi Jinping’s status as China’s most powerful ruler since Mao Zedong. After all, this was an honor denied to Deng Xiaoping who launched the reforms that made China the economic powerhouse that it is now.They may have also felt uneasy about Xi being called lingxiu, great helmsman and great teacher — the honorifics used to glorify Mao. But at least in one respect, Xi has proved himself to be more like Mao than anyone in China thought. Like Mao, he has left no clear successor in line. This means there will be no orderly and peaceful transfer of power after his exit — the situation Deng Xiaoping faced after Mao’s death, persuading him to...
October 29, 2017

Xi Jinping: New era and challenges

Pro-unity demonstrators gather, the day after the Catalan regional parliament declared independence from Spain, in Madrid, Spain, Saturday. — Reuters
Madrid should stand strong
Spain has reached the moment it has both anticipated and dreaded since a controversial referendum on Catalan independence was held on Oct. 1: a complete state of limbo and deep uncertainty about its future.The Catalan crisis escalated dramatically on Friday when the region’s parliament voted in favor of independence just before the Spanish Senate approved direct rule from Madrid. The government stripped Catalonia of its autonomy and took charge of its government, and Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced the dissolution of the regional parliament, the removal of the Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, and called for snap local elections.After Oct. 1, Puigdemont held off on a declaration of independence, asking instead for dialogue with Rajoy, hoping Rajoy would agree to greater autonomies...
October 28, 2017

Madrid should stand strong

More fodder for the JFK conspiracy theorists
It remains one of the most famous political whodunits: Who shot John F. Kennedy? Although 54 years have passed, conspiracy theories have swirled throughout that time over who pulled the trigger on the 35th president of the US and why? The theorists will continue to salivate now that US President Donald Trump has just ordered the release of 2,800 files on one of history’s biggest assassinations. A 1992 law passed by Congress required all records related to the assassination - around five million pages - to be publicly disclosed in full within 25 years. The deadline was Thursday.These remaining documents are being made public for the first time, and the information held in these files could debunk even the most absurd of rumors that have withstood the test of time. The facts are that...
October 27, 2017

More fodder for the JFK conspiracy theorists

Tokyo technology
Around the world, there are some 20 motor shows, most of them branded “international”. But three of them, Geneva, Frankfurt and Tokyo have tended to dominate in recent years each for a rather different reason. The emphasis in Geneva tends to be about style, opulence and extravagance. Frankfurt meanwhile is much more “nuts and bolts”, an engineering fest every bit as much as it is a marketing opportunity for the new Mercedes, Volkswagens, BMWs, Porsches and Audis. And Tokyo is different again, in that it has become the major home of concept cars - not simply sleek futuristic and sometimes quite whacky designs but no less importantly the home of concept engineering.When all is said and done, a vehicle is a box with a wheel at each corner. Automotive technology is always finding new...
October 26, 2017

Tokyo technology

A big murder on a small island
The head of the European Parliament is calling for an international investigation into the murder of a prominent Maltese journalist who had earned a fearsome reputation for alleging corruption at the highest levels.Daphne Caruana Galizia died instantly when a powerful bomb beneath her car exploded just after she had driven away from her home. Car bombs were also used to murder a café owner in 2014 and a fisherman last year, both of whom were believed to be mixed up in smuggling fuel from Libya, where it is heavily subsidized and frequently stolen, to Malta or Sicily. Caruana Galizia was understood to be working on the fuel smuggling story when she was killed.The journalist’s family has accused Maltese premier Joseph Muscat of being at least complicit in the killing and say that Caruana...
October 25, 2017

A big murder on a small island

Can Egypt’s football fans be trusted?
All Egyptians are rightly proud of qualifying for 2018 World Cup in Russia. The Egyptian football teams 2-1 victory over Congo at Alexandria’s Borg El-Arab stadium sealed the return of Egypt for the first time in 28 years. But the game was notable for another reason. There were fans in the stadium cheering their team on. Incredible as it may seem, spectators at a football match have been a rarity for the last five years.In 2012, Egyptian club football was besmirched by the appalling murder of 74 fans in running battles in Port Said between followers of the city’s Al-Masry team and the visiting Al-Ahly team from Cairo. No less than 500 fans were injured by bottles, clubs, fireworks, knives, stones and swords. Unfortunately, this hooligan violence had already become a regular feature of...
October 24, 2017

Can Egypt’s football fans be trusted?

EU will be better off without the UK
THERE is something of a mystery to the negotiations going on between Brussels and London over the terms of the UK’s departure from the Union — Brexit. The puzzle is that the rest of the EU is making such a fuss of getting rid of such a difficult member.The UK has in the past used its veto to frustrate some of the EU’s more beloved schemes. It has certainly stood squarely in the path of plans for a United States of Europe. By refusing to join the European single currency as a founder member it seriously undermined both the spirit and the effect of currency union.The truth is that the British have spelt trouble for Europe almost from the moment they finally joined in 1972. Yet the irony is that in 1946 in a key speech in Zurich, the British wartime leader Winston Churchill called for a...
October 23, 2017

EU will be better off without the UK

A Rohingya refugee carries supplies through Palong Khali refugees camp near Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, Sunday. — Reuters
Myanmar: Defending the indefensible
THE army crackdown on Rohingya in Myanmar has created one of the biggest refugee exoduses since World War II.But how many people know that almost 60 percent of nearly 600,000 Rohingya who have arrived in Bangladesh’s Cox’s Bazar since the end of August are children? The UN Children’s Fund warns that more than 340,000 children are living in desperate conditions in squalid makeshift settlements in Bangladesh. At one time, up to 12,000 children a week were fleeing to Bangladesh to escape violence and persecution in Myanmar. Some 1,200 have fled without any other family members.Painfully thin, malnourished and hungry, they are at risk of diseases and vulnerable to exploitation by traffickers. They are reduced to drinking dirty water and having to scrounge for whatever food might be...
October 22, 2017

Myanmar: Defending the indefensible

Pledge loyalty to Israel, get US flood relief
Just when you thought you had seen and heard everything, out comes news from one Texas city whose residents are being asked to sign a loyalty oath to Israel if they want to receive funds for Hurricane Harvey relief.The city of Dickinson, the hardest hit city in Texas, posted grant applications for anyone seeking money for repairs after the category 4 storm. But to get that help residents must in writing pledge fidelity to Israel.The provision stems from a law barring the US state from entering a contract with any business unless it “does not boycott Israel”. The law, known as the Anti-BDS (Boycott, Divestments, and Sanctions) bill, was signed by Republican Governor Greg Abbott in May. “Anti-Israel policies are anti-Texas policies, and we will not tolerate such actions against an...
October 21, 2017

Pledge loyalty to Israel, get US flood relief

Tough times ahead for UNESCO’s new chief
The election of a new UNESCO director-general came just as the US and Israel announced they would leave the organization. The timing of the withdrawal is too suspicious to be considered coincidental. It could be that these two countries felt that an Arab candidate was about to win, a situation that Israel in particular would never have approved of.In the end, French candidate Audrey Azoulay became the new director-general of UNESCO. After five rounds of balloting among members of the organization’s executive board and a further nail-biting run-off between the runners-up from the first four rounds, Azoulay was eventually declared the winner.It is true that UNESCO is based in Paris and that France, the country of culture and enlightenment, is a natural leader in the field of cultural...
October 20, 2017

Tough times ahead for UNESCO’s new chief

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