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China’s NASDAQ in vertical take-off
WHEN China’s rival to the US high-technology NASDAQ stock exchange went live for the first time on Monday, the price of shares in some of the 25 listed companies soared by an extraordinary 520 percent. Even by the standards of most equity launches around the world, the behavior of the gains of the “stags” — early investors who fully expect the price of the new stocks to rise — on the new Star Exchange in Shanghai were exceptional.They may be explained in part by the reality that the Chinese are inveterate gamblers. But there is far more to the new high technology market than a place for wild speculation. Indeed, the Star Exchange is anything but a gamble. It is in fact a strong statement of political intent by the government in Beijing. Less than a year ago, President Xi Jinping...
July 24, 2019

China’s NASDAQ in vertical take-off

Iran seeks to humiliate the British
THE seizure of a British tanker in Omani waters by Iranian Revolutionary Guards is a direct provocation to the international community. The reason the UK vessel was targeted is clear. An Iranian tanker alleged to be smuggling oil to the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad was boarded off Gibraltar by British marines and is being held while the ship and its cargo of Iranian oil are investigated. In Tehran’s simplistic view of the world, the obvious response was, in its turn, to grab a UK tanker.This act of piracy was however not simply aimed at London. It ratchets up yet higher the tension in the Gulf after recent Iranian attacks on four tankers. Tehran has opened this fresh front in its regional destabilization campaign as its ill-judged riposte to President Trump’s reimposition of economic...
July 23, 2019

Iran seeks to humiliate the British

The WHO Ebola warning is real
THERE are those who are already arguing that by declaring a “public health emergency of international concern” the World Health Organization (WHO) is over-reacting to the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The reasoning goes that had the treat been truly serious the WHO would have called for borders to be closed to stop travelers spreading the contagion.However, such arguments completely miss the point. So far more than 1,600 people have perished from this terrible disease which in West Africa from 2014 to 2016 led to over 11,000 deaths and brought local heath services to their knees. What almost certainly triggered this WHO declaration was that the first Ebola case has just been confirmed in a DRC city of Goma, home to more than a million people. There is a clear...
July 19, 2019

The WHO Ebola warning is real

Revolutionary technology arriving
The two little letters “AI” represent a technology that is set to revolutionize virtually every sphere of our daily lives. Artificial Intelligence, whereby computers not only are programmed to respond to a wide range of circumstances but also learn how to cope with each new incident encountered, is already a reality. Last month the first commercial maritime cargo was shipped between the UK and Belgium in a vessel without any crew. It may have only been a five-kilogram box of British oysters, but the12-meter vessel maneuvered them safely across the English Channel, through one of the world’s busiest shipping lanes.The team that developed this crewless boat are predicting that fully autonomous cargo ships will be in operation by 2025. There will still be land-based “crew”...
July 17, 2019

Revolutionary technology arriving

Terrorism’s evil flame still gutters in Tunisia
IT is a cruel reality of terrorists that when they cannot reach a well-guarded soft target, they attack instead those who are protecting it. This is what Tunisia is now experiencing. The country’s important tourist industry was shattered by the 2015 slaughter at the Bardo museum in the capital and the carnage on a beach in the resort of Sousse. Daesh (the so-called IS) proudly claimed these horrific crimes.And it achieved its nihilist aim because almost overnight, the tourists fled, empty hotels were forced to close and ten of thousands of Tunisians who had earned their living from tourism were thrown out of work. Last year however, governments around the world were removing their warnings against travel to the country and the holiday-makers have come flocking back.The inept security at...
July 17, 2019

Terrorism’s evil flame still gutters in Tunisia

Tragedy ignored
INTERNATIONAL news coverage is like a carnival parade. Loud trumpets and vivid displays pass by quickly then the noise and spectacle fade into the distance. So it is with appalling stories of tragedy around the world, including the shocking fate of Myanmar’s Muslim Rohingya people. They were driven from their homes by genocidal Buddhist monks, actively assisted by police and military and condoned by the government of Aung San Suu Kyi, the woman who has brought shame to the Nobel Peace Laureate that she holds.Despite damning reports and international protests at the savage butchery that caused a tidal wave of 700,000 refugees to flee into neighboring Bangladesh, the Myanmar government has suffered no consequences whatsoever for its reprehensible behavior. It has survived with nothing more...
July 12, 2019

Tragedy ignored

Can Mahdi tame Iraq’s militias?
When it comes to militias, he who pays the piper does not always call the tune. The 2011 Libyan revolution was won by a hotchpotch of different militias. Probably the worst mistake made by the National Transitional Council (NTC) was putting these fighters on the payroll until it could rebuild the country’s police and army. The idea was they would form the core of new security forces. But it never happened. Militia warlords and their men were too jealous of their newfound power. The story has been similar in Iraq. The national army was deliberately hollowed out during the eight-year misrule of Nouri Al-Maliki who appointed unqualified cronies to senior command positions. Thus, when a small force of Daesh (the self-proclaimed IS) terrorists approached Mosul, the...
July 10, 2019

Can Mahdi tame Iraq’s militias?

Erdogan’s decline
IT is sad to see one of the more remarkable politicians of recent times decline into folly. Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan offered his people a change from the corruption and vicious political infighting — one legislator shot another dead in parliament — that characterized politics after the 1980 end of the country’s third military intervention.From being a successful mayor of Istanbul — the city his Justice and Development Party (AKP) just lost humiliatingly after a controversial re-run of the March mayoral election — Erdogan moved to national politics with an overwhelming electoral mandate. The belief that he would follow a moderate foreign policy, building on Turkey’s already strong ties with the Arab world and the European Union were bolstered by his acclaimed...
July 10, 2019

Erdogan’s decline

The turn of the racist tide?
The two most significant outcomes of Sunday’s Greek general election are that the new government has an absolute parliamentary majority and no less significantly, that the Islamophobic neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party has been decisively rejected by voters. Is it too much to hope that this is the turn of the tide against the Europe-wide populism that has played upon fears of migration to encourage racism and bigotry? In the old legislature, to the horror of many, Golden Dawn was the third largest party. Now with virtually all votes counted, these hate-filled thugs have not managed to pass a three percent threshold which means that all eighteen of their members of parliament are out on their ears. When its humiliating defeat became clear, one of Golden Dawn’s chieftains vowed the...
July 08, 2019

The turn of the racist tide?

Another Russian submarine disaster
THE latest Russian submarine tragedy is causing some commentators in the West to point out that Moscow’s renewed and reequipped armed forces are still subject to the procedural shortcomings that saw the humiliating 2000 loss of the nuclear sub Kursk in which the entire 118 crew perished.The Kremlin has been seeking to control the amount of detail coming out about the death of 14 crew members onboard a top secret submersible in deep waters of the Barents Sea off Russia’s northern coast. So far it has been admitted there was a fire in the battery department aboard the unnamed craft and the fourteen victims apparently died from smoke inhalation. Other crew members, including a civilian, survived. What is notable is that everyone on the stricken submarine was an officer, two of them highly...
July 05, 2019

Another Russian submarine disaster

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