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Deploying old methods to resolve the situation ruining the Suez Canal trade
The world appears helpless to stop missiles fired by Yemeni insurgents that have closed the Suez Canal to 90 per cent of its normal traffic.
What's so shameful is that non-state actors such as Houthi insurgents can evade effective counter measures by taking advantage of rules of war that legitimate states impose upon themselves.
Far too much reliance has been placed on Iron Dome defence systems that do not catch every incoming missile. What's more, Iron Dome is fearfully expensive while missiles are cheap.
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Africa ready to open new chapter in air cargo as it did 30 years ago with cut flowers
Africa, always the rear guard of global economic development, is now within range of making substantial progress against bigger rivals in the highly competitive world of air freight.
First, there is a need to be exploited. According to Stanford University conservative economist Thomas Sowell, the fundamental problem with Africa, particularly sub-Saharan Africa, are its lack of useful rivers to carry trade. There is the much cited River Nile, of course, but beyond that, there is scant little of note.
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China's relations with the West are becoming more troubled with EU tariff against Chinese EVs
What differences there were between US and European trade policies towards China have largely disappeared of late. In the US, however politically divided the nation has been in the last year, both Democrat and Republican, have long been on the same page in regard to the China trade.
President Donald Trump in his first term faced massive domestic opposition from the Deep State towards any initiative he took. The core of that opposition in residence had both created and sustained by a statist civil service loyal to the Democratic Party. From entry-level to its top administrative incoming cohorts supplied by the universities, which also produced an equally partisan national press corps over the last 40 years.
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Container monitoring is not needed as much as a reformed civil service
The Philippines is engaged in a battle between regulators and the regulated in a conflict that in one form or another is being played out throughout the western world.
The Manila-based Bureau of Customs (BOC) supposedly seeks to ward off dangers to protect the public by imposing considerable expense on the transport sector to monitor the location and contents of every container on the road in real time.
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