I like reading the Economist. Thanks to this journal, I can know about what is going on the world. I will write what I am interested in from this week’s the Economist.
India Economy : Nobody doubts that China has joined the ranks of the great powers. But, nevertheless its huge potential, India does not show their strength so much. In my opinion, as far as soft power is concerned, India is one of powerful countries. While China is aging rapidly and worker’s population will decrease, India has relatively young and also growing. However, they have also several problem, such as the right of women, unstable periphery. I would like to know more about this country which can become a great power undoubtedly.
Global Warming : Some Recent several terrible natural disasters may remind us Global warming may be one of reason. But some scientists are arguing that man-made climate change is not quite so bad a threat as it appeared to be a few years ago. It is difficult to judge whether this is true or not. However, we have already started several projects and we could not go back to. The world still needs to deal with it.
Heathrow Airport : Last year, when Britain’s government was being lobbied to revive controversial plan to expand Heathrow airport. For me, surprisingly, having predicted just before the financial crisis that 495m passengers a year would want to use Britain’s airports by 2030, it now puts the potential damand by then just 320m. More than 100m would pass through British airport, however, we can tell how hard the financial crisis damage of this area. Among the developed countries, the number of passengers is expanding. I actually don’t understand the relation between the number of passengers and economic development. Why the number of passengers keep growing? Especially like in Britain, Japan, there seems to be few chance to grow.
The Economist give me the idea what I would like to know next. These topics are interesting. I will survey further.