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Chinese President Xi Jinping
China is coming
Chinese President Xi Jinping pulled few punches in his three-hour address to the Communist Party congress in Beijing. China was already a global power, he said, and this century it could expect to take center-stage in world affairs. In a speech brimming with the confidence of a leader who feels himself strongly in control, Xi insisted that China’s political model - “socialism with Chinese characteristics” - would not change and added that it could be “a new choice for other countries”.There is little doubt that delegates will choose Xi to remain in charge. His first five years have arguably been the most effective of all Chinese Communist Party leaders. His anti-corruption drive has seen the purging of more than a million officials, from the lowest to the very highest. He has...
October 19, 2017

China is coming

Barzani’s blunder
The independence referendum among Iraqi Kurds seemed a turning point in this minority’s search for statehood. The overwhelming vote to break away was celebrated far into the night by deliriously happy Kurds. Yet just three weeks on with the Iraqi government’s reoccupation of Kirkuk and the seizure of a third of the oil production on which a Kurdish state would have to rely, the exultant mood has changed to one of anger and despair.The referendum was a direct challenge to the Iraqi state and to Turkey whose troops are fighting their own war against rebels among their own Kurdish minority. It was also a significant challenge to the international community. Many countries warned against the plebiscite. Not least among them was the United States, whose no-fly zone enforced along with the...
October 18, 2017

Barzani’s blunder

Austria embraces bigotry
Sebastian Kurz, the 31-year-old politician who is likely to be Austria’s new chancellor campaigned on the slogan “Time for Something New!". The core anti-immigration policy he set for his right-wing People’s Party is, however, not new at all. It is in fact the same racist claptrap of another notorious Austrian, Adolf Hitler, who was himself only 32 when he won the leadership of Germany’s Nazi party in 1921.Politicians who gain power by encouraging the electorate to embrace bigotry and focus on the perceived threat of outsiders are an offense to civilized society. The trend of Islamophobia and race hate in Europe continues to gather pace. National Front leader Marine Le Pen’s bid for the French presidency was only beaten off when voters of all political colors held their...
October 17, 2017

Austria embraces bigotry

The butchers of Mogadishu
IT was hardly surprising there was no immediate terrorist claim for the enormity of the attack in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Yet there is little doubt that the truck bomb which slew more than 300 people and seriously injured hundreds more, was the work of the brutal Al-Shabaab group an open ally of Al-Qaeda.If for one moment the terrorists hesitated to admit that they caused such carnage, it has to be wondered why they mounted the deadly operation in the first place. Driving a vehicle laden with a huge quantity of explosives surrounded by nails and other mini missiles into a crowded public space was always going to cause major devastation. The Somali authorities say that this was the largest blast ever staged by Al-Shabaab. It certainly caused the greatest-ever number of dead and...
October 16, 2017

The butchers of Mogadishu

Prime Minister Narendra Modi
India: Modi’s troubles
INDIA’S parliamentary elections are still two years away and the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party is confident of a second term. There is nobody in the opposition ranks to rival Prime Minister Narendra Modi either in his popularity or charisma. Moreover, the opposition is weak and divided. That there is no credible alternative to the prime minister in 2019 also works to the advantage of Modi and his party.But for the first time since he came to power with a two-third majority in 2014, the prime minister and his party are showing signs of nervousness. His attack on those “spreading pessimism” was prickly, and of a piece with a leader who has lost his sureness of touch. The reason is the state of the economy and allegations of corruption against the son of BJP chief Amit Shah who along...
October 15, 2017

India: Modi’s troubles

Trump puts Iran nuclear deal on hold
Only someone with zero focus on the new US political landscape would have been surprised by President Donald Trump’s White House address on Friday that comprised a long-anticipated announcement that he was decertifying Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear arms agreement. Twice since he came into office, Trump recertified the agreement but on the second go he was reportedly upset that his team appeared to be steering him away from one of his chief pledges to voters.Trump has not ripped up the deal. What he has done, besides not certifying it, is to send the deal to Congress, which has 60 days to decide whether to fix the deal in a manner in which satisfactory changes are made or to reimpose sanctions that in effect will kill the agreement.So, the deal’s fate is now in the hands of...
October 14, 2017

Trump puts Iran nuclear deal on hold

The real deal
The two biggest benefits that will come from the Hamas and Fatah landmark reconciliation deal newly signed in Cairo will be reuniting the Palestinian people, which in turn will help greatly toward a peace deal with Israel.If the deal holds, it would end a decade-long rift that began with violent clashes between the two Palestinian groups Fatah and Hamas in 2007 after Hamas won parliamentary elections in the occupied territories a year earlier and reinforced its power in Gaza after ousting Fatah from the strip. In those ten years, Fatah, the party of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, has been governing the West Bank, while Hamas has been running Gaza.The existence of two leaderships for the Palestinian people dealt a devastating blow to the Palestinian cause. The face of the...
October 13, 2017

The real deal

Kenya’s unworkable new election date
These are remarkable days in Kenya. The country’s Supreme Court ordered a re-run of last August’s elections that it said were riddled with irregularities. The incumbent government of President Uhuru Kenyatta had won the vote. It, therefore, stood to reason that the most successful illegalities had been conducted on behalf of Kenyatta’s Jubilee Party. Kenya held its breath. How would the government take this challenge from the courts?In the event it behaved remarkably well. There was no pressure on the judges to reconsider. There were no armed soldiers outside the courtroom. No threats made against the judiciary. The Supreme Court ordered the Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) to run the election again. Under the constitution this must happen by November 1.So far...
October 12, 2017

Kenya’s unworkable new election date

Winning the peace in Hawija
The odious monuments to its savagery Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) is leaving as it is driven from its final lairs include mass graves of those who opposed its violent and blasphemous rule. Whole communities have been butchered or driven out by the terrorists.The United Nations estimates that in Iraq alone, Daesh has been responsible for the displacement of almost five and a half million people. Many have lost family members, and those who have fled have abandoned their homes and their possessions. They are now refugees with little means of survival, not least in the face of the coming winter. They are entirely dependent upon the support of the Iraqi government and international aid agencies.However, this tragedy is in danger of being compounded by the actions of some of the forces that...
October 11, 2017

Winning the peace in Hawija

Shooting the doctors
War is never glorious. It is always horrific. However carefully commanders plan a battle, it rarely shapes up the way they intend. Fear and confusion characterize the battlefield. The soldiers often suffer horrific injuries and then there is the inevitable tragedy of civilian casualties, whose numbers can often be greater than those of the combatants.In the heat of battle, the medic and the doctor can save lives even though the victims may have suffered life-changing injuries. They are an essential part of the battlefield. And the assumption is always that medical personnel should never be targets. Vehicles bearing the Red Crescent and the Red Cross must be assumed to be carrying the wounded, even though at times this principle is dishonored, and are therefore not to be fired on. Likewise...
October 10, 2017

Shooting the doctors

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