Absolutely appalling! Shameful demonisation and dehumanisation of Muslims by the ruling party of India. Based on and with emphatic approval of the prime minister of the country.

I dread what 2029 election campaign would depict Muslims as given the hate has become so brazen now.

ft.com/content/4a4f68…

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High interest rates are a headache for Indonesia, despite its low deficit and debt burden

If they continue president-elect Prabowo might have difficulty funding some of his big spending plans

dinsights.katadata.co.id/read/2024/04/2…

Ideas of Indonesia-China alignment can be overplayed - Indonesia remains committed to non-alignment, and Prabowo paired his post-election visit to Beijing with visits to Japan and Malaysia

But, there's no denying atittudes towards the US have soured

bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

new recession index just dropped

Hilarious piece in The Economist about the rise and fall of lonely hearts ads - the way people used to find romance with strangers before apps

economist.com/britain/2024/0…

For rich countries, exporting trash to Southeast Asia saves money and outsources the disposal problem. In an ironic twist, jurisdictions with the toughest environmental regulations are also some of the biggest exporters of waste to poorer countries.  asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/The-…

Big news in US auto manufacturing

Ofc manufacturers will see this as a blow to profits. I wonder if the US walled garden approach to EVs (keeping out cheap Chinese imports) becomes ever more reliant on subsidy and tariffs to keep OEMs on board with a build American strategy

It'll be interesting to see if Blair gets tapped as an unofficial envoy by Labour when it gets into government

Considering the global reach of the Blair Institute and it's influence in Starmer's Labour I wouldn't be surprised

Excellent piece on how political pressures and kneejerk protectionism are hobbling availability of cheap EVs in the US, and likely America's ability to develop it's own
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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Empire's Violent End
Comparing Dutch, British, and French Wars of Decolonization, 1945–1962
Cornell Univ Pr 2022
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The Spectator’s theatre critic has written a piece about how a female professional peer’s appearance made him so horny that he had to go pay for sex with a “buxom” Chinese woman near the train station.

Really nice piece on 'Green Islam' environmental efforts in Indonesia by Sui-Lee Wee 黄瑞黎

nytimes.com/2024/04/17/wor…

Syariah courts, which implement codes based on interpretations of Islam’s sharia law, play an integral but also carefully circumscribed role in Malaysia’s legal system, Joseph Rachman writes. foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/12/cou…

Indonesian peacekeepers spotted