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Same floods, very different reactions
IN Rome the water pressure is being lowered because much of Italy is suffering from a prolonged drought. There is no such problem in Houston nor in India’s Mumbai. Torrential rains have brought extensive flooding, which has seriously disrupted life in both of these cities. But there the similarities end. Houston knew that rain-laden Hurricane Harvey was heading its way but no one expected it would be the worst storm in half a century nor that it would dump a meter of rain in just over 24 hours.In Mumbai however, as in most of South-East Asia, the monsoon is an annual event for which society and city authorities are prepared. Or are they?The Houston mayor’s department is saying that 12 people are known to have died as a result of Storm Harvey’s downpour and gale force winds. Yet...
August 30, 2017

Same floods, very different reactions

A cynical EU migrant plan
The EU’s latest effort to tackle the flow of largely economic migrants to Europe from sub-Saharan Africa is born out of crisis rather than long-term planning. Italy and now increasingly Spain have become the favored arrival points for asylum seekers from North Africa.On paper, the plan looks reasonable, so reasonable indeed that many might be tempted to ask why no one thought of it before. Niger and Chad are the countries in which the people-smugglers assemble their human cargos for the perilous road trip through Libya’s Sahara desert. From there Libyan gangs launch them across the Mediterranean in flimsy craft, very often only after they have imprisoned and exploited their passengers.On Monday, French, German, Italian and Spanish leaders agreed to fund UN and other migration agency...
August 29, 2017

A cynical EU migrant plan

China should tread more carefully
TIME and again it has proved to be the case that when cartographers for the old imperialist powers drew the borders of their far-off colonial possessions around the world, they might as well have been using blood rather than ink. The post-colonial carnage, not least in Africa, that has resulted from imperial borders that sliced carelessly through ethnic communities has been horrific.In 1890, the British Raj took over the historic kingdom of Sikkim and signed an agreement with the Chinese which protected the narrow land corridor which is also bordered by Bhutan that connected India with the northern part of West Bengal state. There is a border plateau known as Doklam in India and Donglang in China which Bhutan claims but which the Chinese insist is theirs, citing the 1890 agreement with the...
August 29, 2017

China should tread more carefully

Compounding Rohingya woes
WHOEVER planned and staged Thursday night’s coordinated attacks on 30 police posts in Myanmar have done a great disservice to the Rohingya minority in that country who are fighting for their basic rights. At least 12 members of the security forces and 77 insurgents were killed in the attack that took place in Myanmar’s Rakhine state where most of approximately 1.1 million Muslim Rohingya live.Those behind the attack can’t be unaware of the massive military counteroffensive that followed similar incidents in October 2016. Some 87,000 Rohingya had to flee to Bangladesh after the military operation. Security forces have begun a new “clearance operation” this month, worsening Rohingya’s conditions still further.To be fair, the persecution of Rohingya did not start with last...
August 28, 2017

Compounding Rohingya woes

Compulsory calorie cuts
There is growing concern in England that children’s waistlines are expanding because they are copying adults by consuming 200-300 calories too many per day. Those ready meals of pizzas, burgers, savory snacks and sandwiches are just too enticing. Price-cutting promotions of junk food in supermarkets and the advertising of unhealthy food to children through family TV shows are making the eating habits of the young a health hazard.As a consequence, the health agency Public Health England is to cut excess calorie consumption from all sources in its anti-obesity strategy for children in the UK. It could see the size of products reduced or ingredients changed in food and drinks bought in supermarkets, takeaways and restaurants. The PHE will consider the evidence on children’s calorie...
August 27, 2017

Compulsory calorie cuts

Jared Kushner
Visits need outcomes
Jared Kushner’s third trip to the region in the search for a Middle East peace agreement has still not produced any visible signs of progress. That is not good; the more the visits, the more the talking without tangible results, the more Kushner risks losing his credibility and that of his father-in-law President Donald Trump who wants to make this ultimate deal.Kushner’s three-hour meeting with Palestine President Mahmoud Abbas was described as positive but no details were discussed. Abbas reiterated his desire for an American commitment to a Palestinian state and said he greatly appreciated Trump’s efforts. This is a far cry from their tense sit-down in June in which Kushner rattled off a series of demands relayed by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.Abbas’s climbdown to...
August 26, 2017

Visits need outcomes

Asia is coming
When Chinese automaker Great Wall Motor indicated this week it was interested in acquiring the US-Italian giant Fiat Chrysler there were flutters of concern in America and Europe that this acquisition could mark the start of a major move by China into a sector that has long underpinned their own economies.Investors were by and large pleased at the possibility of being bought out at a top dollar premium and investment banks scrambled to assemble merger and acquisition teams to win lucrative mandates to see through and fund any deal.In the event, Great Wall later said that it had merely been researching the possibility of buying one of the world’s leading carmakers. It had not yet made any formal approach to Fiat Chrysler and no bid was in the immediate offing.But in even referring to the...
August 25, 2017

Asia is coming

Trump and Afghanistan
President Donald Trump is recommitting the US to its battle against the Taliban in Afghanistan, which at 16 years’ duration is now the longest war the Americans have ever fought.Trump has given few details about his planned increase in troop deployments but said that he was not prepared to write a blank check. At the same time, he said that he was determined to defeat the Taliban. Pessimists will see yet another US foreign policy disaster in the making. Optimists, however, are choosing to believe that Trump is going to head a very different Afghan policy than his vacillating predecessor Barack Obama.There is a dynamic to terrorist insurgencies. They generally begin with terrorizing local populations by murdering officials and anyone who supports the government. Then they fight back...
August 24, 2017

Trump and Afghanistan

US Navy suffers further Asian embarrassment
US warships are supposed to be the last word in ultra-high technological sophistication with automated guns that could shoot a sparrow out of the sky, state-of-the-art communications systems and targeting-linked radar that, thanks to Global Positioning Systems, can see far over the horizon.It is thus extremely surprising when a US naval vessel is in collision with a civilian ship. And it becomes downright incredible when in the space of just 12 months, this happens no less than four times to warships of the US Seventh Fleet.This week’s collision of the destroyer USS John S. McCain with an oil tanker in the Malacca Straits is utterly baffling. This is one of the world’s busiest areas of water, always crowded with merchant vessels. Even without all the highly-advanced military gadgetry...
August 23, 2017

US Navy suffers further Asian embarrassment

The immorality of pharmaceutical industry price gouging
PHARMACEUTICAL companies often produce a common defense for the high price of their medicines. It is that the cost of developing, testing and gaining regulatory approval for a single new drug frequently runs into hundreds of millions of dollars. This outlay has to be recouped. Patent protection can last for just seven years, meaning that the company that developed a medicine must try and earn back that investment as quickly as possible before “me-too” generic producers start to make the same drug and can afford to undercut them on price.There is, however, no such excuse for the generic producers themselves. There have been frequent examples of what is called “price gouging”. The most notorious was that of Martin Shkreli’s 2015 hiking of the price of a generic anti-parasitic drug...
August 22, 2017

The immorality of pharmaceutical industry price gouging

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