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Reading Putin
There was a time when the US State Department tried to get inside the head of world leaders by appointing individuals to immerse themselves totally in the character and behavior of particular politicians. Most famously Theodore Roosevelt’s grandson Kermit was given the top-secret job of “being” Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser. In the run-up to the Suez crisis, Kermit was taken by the US ambassador in Cairo to dinner with Nasser. According to the journalist Mohamed Heikal who was also there, after the meal, as they all sat by the Nile drinking their coffee, Nasser turned to Roosevelt and asked with a smile: “Now tell me Kermit, what will I do next?”If anyone in the State department’s Foggy Bottom Washington home is currently playing the part of Russian President Vladimir...
July 12, 2017

Reading Putin

The EU has a case to answer over Cyprus
SIX months of talks over the reunification of Cyprus have ended in failure despite the high hopes with which they began. This is a tragedy for all sides in a dispute which has now divided the island for 43 years.For many generations, Turks and Greeks had lived side by side generally in amity. But during the fight for independence, British divide-and-rule tactics set the two communities at odds. Greek EOKA terrorists led by George Grivas attacked Turks as well as the British, which forced Turkish Cypriots toward supporting the colonial power. The inter-communal divisions sowed suspicions which came to the fore as London finally inked an agreement on independence in 1960. The island was to have a power-sharing government. But to ensure its success, Greece, Turkey, Russia and the UK...
July 11, 2017

The EU has a case to answer over Cyprus

North Korea: Dialogue the only option
NORTH Korea and US President Donald Trump have done something they love doing again and again. The North launches another ballistic missile and Trump responds with more macho-posturing.Pyongyang has carried out more than two dozen missile tests since Kim Jong-un came to power in December 2012. It detonated two nuclear devices last year. Also last year, North Korea defied United Nations resolutions by using a rocket to put a satellite into orbit. There is increasing talk of another test — North Korea’s sixth — very soon.The latest missile was launched on the eve of America’s Independence Day. This was intended to provoke the superpower. Worse still, the North claims that with the latest launch, it has crossed a milestone in its efforts to build nuclear weapons capable of hitting the...
July 10, 2017

North Korea: Dialogue the only option

Farmers’ agitation in India
At one time the common perception about India was that it was a poor country. V.K. Krishna Menon, a member of Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru’s cabinet, used to challenge this narrative. “No,” he would assert, “India is a rich country inhabited by poor people.”Things have changed for the better, but one thing remains unchanged. The agricultural sector still accounts for the largest number of India’s poor. After all, roughly 60 percent of Indians depend on agriculture for their livelihood. They include farmers, including those without any land, and farm laborers, etc. Rains and drought can and do play havoc with their lives. Farming in India has also been blighted by small plot sizes, a depleting water table, declining productivity and lack of modernization.To this should be...
July 09, 2017

Farmers’ agitation in India

Football’s video muddle
Introduced 15 months ago at the start of a two-year experimental period, the video assistant referee, or VAR, was meant to iron out football refereeing mistakes. But the recent Confederations Cup in Russia provided plenty of evidence of how far VAR, which reviews decisions made by the referee with the use of video footage, has to go before it can live up to its billing of maximum benefit, minimum interference.In the final between Germany and Chile, VAR should have determined that Chile defender Gonzalo Jara should have been red carded for elbowing German forward Timo Werner in the face. Serbian referee Milorad Mazic asked for a video replay, a crucial moment that could have defined the outcome. Nearly three minutes passed before a decision was reached — the foul was a yellow card offence...
July 08, 2017

Football’s video muddle

Tony Blair’s ‘emotional belief’
The senior British civil servant who took seven years to produce a report into the UK’s involvement with President George W. Bush’s 2003 invasion of Iraq has given his first interview a year after the two-million-word document was published.Though the report itself was damning in its assessment of the entirely false claims that Saddam Hussein still had weapons of mass destruction and his finding that there was no justification under international law for the invasion, the man who led the inquiry, Sir John Chilcot, has this week looked back on his report and used the typically measured terms of a British civil servant in an interview with the BBC.He said that Blair had not been “straight with the nation” but also said that the then British prime minister had an “emotional”...
July 07, 2017

Tony Blair’s ‘emotional belief’

Tomorrow’s Putin-Trump meeting
It is perhaps significant that the first meeting between the American and Russian presidents will not be a set-piece bilateral encounter with all the trimmings of honor guards, speechifying and an exchange of gifts but will rather take place on the sidelines of tomorrow’s G20 summit in the German port of Hamburg.Though it will almost certainly be the most important part of this gathering of the world’s most powerful states, that Putin and Trump are fitting this first encounter into the summit’s busy schedule demonstrates how hopes of a Moscow-Washington rapprochement have faded since Trump became president eight months ago.It is now hard to believe that when news of Trump’s victory broke, there were cheers in the Russian parliament. At every level, relations between the White House...
July 06, 2017

Tomorrow’s Putin-Trump meeting

Europe at a loss over migrants from Libya
Europe is in a complete mess over the flow of migrants from Libya. Italy is being overwhelmed by the tidal wave of humanity that is being launched from beaches in western Libya. At a Paris meeting this weekend, it appealed to France and Germany to do something to help. So bad has the problem become that Rome is even talking of closing its ports to any non-Italian vessel carrying rescued migrants.Such a threat is aimed at the nine Non-Government Organizations (NGO) which are operating vessels at their own expense, picking up people from overcrowded rubber rafts. A Sicilian prosecutor is investigating alleged links between Libyan people-smuggling gangs and these charities. One of the questions he wants answered is how some of the smaller organizations can afford to operate ocean-going...
July 05, 2017

Europe at a loss over migrants from Libya

A pointless phone call
US President Donald Trump cannot have his cake and eat it. He wants China to rein in what he characterizes as the growing threat of North Korea’s nuclear arms program. Yet at virtually the same time that he was telephoning Xi Jinping to ask him to do something about Pyongyang, Trump sent a US destroyer to sail close to Triton Island one of the disputed Paracel archipelagoes on which China has built a large military base.Coming on top of the sale of $1.4 billion-worth of weapons to Taiwan and his administration’s criticism of human rights in China, it is hard to see how Xi would have been particularly welcoming when he took Trump’s call.America is pushing back against Chinese military assertiveness in its own backyard. Though Washington does not like to lose its post-war hegemony, in...
July 04, 2017

A pointless phone call

Macron wins but now comes the hard part
THE important part of French presidential result is that Marine Le Pen will not succeed Francois Hollande as the next occupant of the Elysee Palace. But even though Emmanuel Macron polled 66.1 percent of the vote to Le Pen’s 33.9 percent, the alarming reality is that this run-off for the leadership of France has legitimized the racist National Front, which drew the support of no less than 11 million French voters.In his first speech celebrating his victory, Macron vowed to fight “the forces of division that undermine France” but the size of that task is now clear and it is daunting. Macron won because all the parties that detested the National Front and all that their candidate stood for united to ensure her defeat. But it is entirely possible that this will be the last time that the...
May 09, 2017

Macron wins but now comes the hard part

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