, where a standard gauge railway is being built to link the port of Mombasa first with Nairobi, and ultimately with neighboring Ugan- da, Rwanda, and South Sudan. In recent years, Chinese compa- nies have aslo led renew- able energy projects in places such as Pakistan, Thailand and the Philippines. Such massi

s difficult issues about the inviolability of the current Arab borders that the retreating Europeans created last century. I thought the secession of South Sudan was a perfectly acceptable development, if it reflected the will of the people of the south, and was not imposed on them. The operative principle in

t seems like we have more of them. There's more of a desire for individual groups of people to assert their own independence. We see it in the Kurds, South Sudan, many places in the world. Perhaps it's our interconnected world of 24-hour-a-day internet, which allows similar people to congregate together and ta