Governance crisis
The 21st century is playing games with civilisation. Crisis governance is the style of the decade. Start with the superpower US. The theme for the coming presidential election is change; plus two new formats: a woman contesting; and a minority leader. Add a big deciding factor: the no confidence in the USD, world's only global currency.
In SE Asia, Bangladesh and Pakistan are fed up with the traditional patterns; and the people are seeking basic change of style. Pakistan has to cope with three fronts: Kashmir, India, and the religious terrorists; plus pressure from the US (Afghanistan, the black hole).
Bangladesh is fed up with corrupt regimes for more than two decades; and phase one of the hard operation clean-up is in motion; before the coming general elections. The food prices have skyrocketed; and that too after the huge Sidr cyclone, with new temporary non-political caretaker government mothering the baby. BD is drawing unholy attention from foreign investors: huge untapped natural energy resources (as also in neighbouring country Myanmar). Black wealth is ruling the economy, and some of the top players are in custody.
South Asia is now under focus, and the main player now in the global game: the Western rich industrialized countries are trying to establish a base in South Asia (population one and a half billion, with cheap labour), to counter the economic and industrial power of China, above in the North.
EU, Japan, S Korea, and Taiwan are facing sunset years. The economic and industrial sine wave is shifting to the developing countries (cunning Nature knows about human Economics!).
The political regimes (on Earth) are worried it has to change its traditional styles of exploitation, in the first and the third worlds (where is the Second World). It is the decade of change and adjustment. Bush and Blair on the exit path; the Army in Pakistan is in two minds; the flare-up in Tibet was pre-planned; (latest: thousands of hooks/bolts in railway track removed in the night in Dhaka city).
Media analysts have a lot of homework, to keep with the daily news breaks. This scribe is a reader/viewer living in Dhaka, worried about headlines hinting that the mega-polis was sinking (underground water level deprivation). Serious? Go for a merry-go-round ride at the Children's Park (read the maintenance report first).
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