SUMMER 2019 will go on record as the hottest summer in human recorded history, but it will also be remembered as a summer of madness, when there are protests everywhere and violence seems to be on the boil.
Who would have expected South Korea to be quarrelling with Japan? Or India taking away the autonomy of Jammu/Kashmir to direct rule by Delhi? Or the Argentinian peso dropping 30% in one day? Why did the United States put every one of their major trading partners, including Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam on their watchlist of “currency manipulators”?