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Putin woos Africa
RUSSIAN President Vladimir Putin has this week hosted an interesting conference in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, to which he invited 44 presidents and prime ministers from all over Africa. The two-day gathering draws together the threads that Putin has been laying out in recent years by hosting individual African heads of state in Moscow.Amidst the normal statements about goodwill and mutual benefit, the noises coming out of the conference focused on trade. Russia has indeed doubled its exports to African countries in the last four years. However its $20 billion of Africa sales stands in stark contrast to the $204 billion China recorded last year. The US, EU and India are also way ahead of Russian exports to the continent and even the United Arab Emirates earned more from Africa than...
October 24, 2019

Putin woos Africa

Trudeau stays in power — for now
LONG before the advertising industry was created to market products, the dark art of appealing to the masses was being practiced by politicians. Those who wished to climb the greasy poll to power had to promote themselves and their policies to a sometimes even indifferent electorate.It is one of democracy’s greatest weaknesses that time after time, governments are elected on programs that they then fail to carry out. Sometimes they can protest there were good reasons for this. Nicolas Sarkozy for instance won the French presidency with firm promises to rebuild the ailing French economy with radical reforms, particularly to end unsustainable state spending. In the event the world financial system tanked and Sarkozy spent much of his presidency trying to save French financial institutions...
October 22, 2019

Trudeau stays in power — for now

Mexico humiliated by its terrorists
LAST week the authorities in Mexico acted decisively when they arrested the wanted son of the notorious drugs baron El Chapo. But almost immediately, the police action in the city of Culiacan went disastrously wrong. Members of the El Chapo gang fought back ferociously. Eight people including law officers were killed and 16 injured. At this point the police effectively surrendered by letting their prisoner go free.Mexican President Andres Obrador announced after Ovido Guzan was released that: “The capture of a criminal is not worth more than people's lives ” compounded the shame of this botched operation. El Chapo — Joaquin Guzman — is currently in the United States to where he was extradited to face a raft of charges relating his worldwide narcotics empire. His son Ovido...
October 21, 2019

Mexico humiliated by its terrorists

Orban’s humiliating Budapest defeat
Hungary’s controversial Prime Minister Viktor Orban has suffered a shock political defeat. His Fidesz party’s two-term mayor of the capital Budapest, Istvan Tarlos, was ousted in elections at the weekend. It represents an important first-ever check for the increasingly authoritarian Orban, who clearly imagined his racist blockade of migrants and his barely-disguised Islamophobia continued to be widely popular.Fidesz mayors were ousted from ten of the 23 cities in which votes were held. That is the good news. But less encouraging is the reality that it took a series of deals among opposition parties to bring about these results. Essentially it was agreed among them that they would agree on and back just one candidate to challenge the incumbents of the long-dominant governing party,...
October 15, 2019

Orban’s humiliating Budapest defeat

Tunisia’s new president
Tunisians have become so fed up with the bickering politicians that they have elected since they triggered the so-called Arab Spring in 2011, that they have just chosen a president who is the complete antithesis of a political animal.Indeed the country’s new head of state, Kais Saied, a 61-year-old retired constitutional law professor, is so lacking in charisma and charm that even loyal supporters happily describe him variously as “Robot” and “Robocop”. The dour-faced president-elect’s victory - he stood as an independent - was based on widespread disgust with the existing political establishment and its failure to grapple with an ailing economy and rising joblessness. Though predictably, they all protested to the contrary, too few politicians, even within some of the leading...
October 14, 2019

Tunisia’s new president

Dealing with terror
THE murderous assault on a synagogue and a Turkish-owned eatery in the German city of Halle are both being blamed on a far-right extremist. Two people died in a hail of gunfire. It comes in a week that a suspected Syrian terrorist hijacked a truck in Limburg, near Frankfurt and plowed it into a line of motorists, seriously injuring nine people. Both these crimes were acts of terror, like all such enormities the deeds of ignorant and hate-filled bigots. In their warped view of the world, they somehow imagined that killing and maiming complete strangers were going to advance the cause that they espouse. They doubtless saw themselves in some perverse way as heroes. They were striking a blow against enemies, who in their pathetic estimation, were so wicked, they did not deserve the slightest...
October 11, 2019

Dealing with terror

Bringing down the president
THE cacophony of hatred and vilification launched against President Donald Trump by the US political elite began even before the man sat down for the first time in the Oval Office. And it has not ceased since then, even for a moment. Many of the inhabitants of the Capitol Hill “swamp” that Trump promised to drain loathe their elected president, to the point of distraction. The boom box of social media produces an endless litany of often-violent abuse condemning every little thing Trump says or does. But how substantial is this self-appointed jury? Does its constant screaming hubbub really represent the feelings of the majority of Americans? For sure Trump is boorish, unsubtle and undiplomatic. He refuses to play by Washington’s long-standing political rules. Some of his more inept...
October 09, 2019

Bringing down the president

Abdul Mahdi’s savage response to protest
More than 16 years ago, US President George W. Bush, relying on entirely phony evidence that Saddam Hussein still possessed weapons of mass destruction, led the invasion of Iraq and Saddam’s ouster. The consequences of this regime change have proved utterly disastrous. Regional peace was undermined by Al-Qaeda and Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) terrorists’ campaigns which sprang into being amidst the wreckage of the old regime. Regional stability was overthrown as the chaos in Iraq gave the ayatollahs in Tehran the opportunity to exploit the country’s divisions and long-simmering rivalries. And most important of all, ordinary Iraqis were plunged into a world of murderous mayhem, from which the US-imposed trappings of a democracy have signally failed to delver them.The latest wave of...
October 08, 2019

Abdul Mahdi’s savage response to protest

Turkey welshes on EU asylum deal
IN March 2016, Turkey made a deal with the European Union. It would curtail the flow of migrants to Greece, which by 2015 had passed one million. In return Ankara accepted $3.3 billion from Brussels, which it was supposed to be devoting to the care of the 3.5 million largely Syrian migrants it was hosting. The EU also agreed to allow Turkish citizens free movement within the borderless Schengen area and promised to “reenergize” stalled talks on Turkey’s accession to the Union.One of the scandalous details of the deal was that the Turkey would accept back Syrians who were deemed by EU officials, specially drafted into Greece, not to have a valid claim for asylum. However, Brussels also agreed to grant entry to one Syrian migrant for every other Syrian sent back. Such was the relief at...
October 08, 2019

Turkey welshes on EU asylum deal

Trump’s new trade war
Trump’s new trade warWHEN China’s President Xi Jinping last week opened Beijing’s Daxing International, the world’s biggest airport, ahead of the 70th anniversary celebrations of the Chinese communist party’s coming to power, commentators overlooked one interesting fact. This was that the majority of the civilian airliners that began to use Daxing, was made abroad, predominantly in the United States and Europe.It seems more than certain that in the-not too distant future this will change with newly-developed Chinese aircraft being bought and operated successfully by airlines around the world. But for the moment, the market is dominated by the two giants and deadly rivals, Boeing and Airbus.The US has just won a World Trade Organization judgment that the European consortium, which...
October 04, 2019

Trump’s new trade war

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