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1、SEPTEMBER 7TH 13TH 2019 Britain s political meltdown cont d Who lost Argentina Battle algorithm AI and war Why Americans pay more for lunch Assad s hollow victory Transformation for a shared future Selected speakers include An exclusive invite only conference for strategy and transformation executiv
2、es and thought leaders from world class organizations to exchange insights share experiences and build networks Jim McNerney Former Chairman President and CEO The Boeing Company Former Chairman and CEO 3M Ngozi Okonjo Iweala Two time Finance Minister of Nigeria Former Managing Director The World Ban
3、k Rick Goings Former Chairman and CEO Tupperware Brands Tiff ani Bova Customer Growth it could come as early as next year Cathay Pacifi c schairman stood down three weeks after its chief executive resigned amid the political turmoil in Hong Kong Cathay s home hub The airline draws a lot of business
4、from the Chinese mainland where the govern ment has told it to bar cabin crew who participate in Hong Kong s pro democracy protests from fl ying to Chinese air ports Cathay has sacked two pilots who joined the marches The new chairman like the new ceo comes from Swire Group a conglomerate with a 45
5、stake in Cathay Nickelprices soared to fi ve year highs after the Indonesian government brought forward a ban on exports of nickel ore to December two years earlier than it had proposed The metal is used in stainless steel and increasingly in batteries for electric cars an industry which Indonesia w
6、ants to develop domestically Aweb of intrigue There were moreprivacy scandalsinvolving internet companies Google was fi ned 170m in America for illegally collecting data from child users on its YouTube site in order to target them with ads And a two year hacking cam paign was uncovered by Google s r
7、esearchers that tapped into text messages and photos on hundreds of thou sands of iPhones As a remind er that no one is immune the Twitter account of Jack Dorsey Twitter s boss was briefl y hijacked a number of off en sive messages and a bomb threat were tweeted out India s GDP Source Haver Analytic
8、s increase on a year earlier 2016171819 0 2 4 6 8 10 Leaders 11 A ssad or we burn the country For years Bashar al Assad s troops have daubed that phrase onto walls in the towns they recapture The insurgents pushed the dictator to the brink But Mr Assad shrugged off the empty threats of Western leade
9、rs and enlisted the help of Iran and Russia True to his slogan he destroyed whole cities and gassed and starved his own people What rebels remain are holed up in Idlib province It too will soon fall Against all the odds the monster has won Yet it is a hollow victory Far from bringing order to the co
10、un try as the Russians and Iranians claim Mr Assad has displaced half the population Eight years of civil war have destroyed the economy and cost 500 000 lives Mr Assad has nothing good to off er his people His country will be wretched and divided The consequences will be felt far beyond its borders
11、 The precise moment of Mr Assad s triumph will be deter mined in Idlib About 3m people live there many of whom fl ed fi ghting elsewhere The area is controlled by the hardest core re bels jihadists linked to al Qaeda who will not go quietly That too is a legacy of Mr Assad s ruthlessness He released
12、 hundreds of jihadists from prison in 2011 hoping that they would taint the once peaceful multi confessional uprising Now the regime is bombing them along with civilians and hospitals The off ensive will take time and it will be bloody see Briefi ng When the fi ghting stops the tensions that origina
13、lly threatened the regime will remain but they will be worse than ever Start with reli gion Mr Assad s father Hafez a member of the Alawite minority clung to power partly by hold ing the line between the country s faiths His son though painted his Sunni opponents as fundamentalists as a way of rally
14、ing Christians Druze and secular minded Syrians to his side Millions of Sunnis have fl ed the country creating what Mr Assad calls a healthier and more homogeneous society but millions remain They have seen their homes looted property confi scat ed and districts overrun by Assad supporters Resentful
15、 fearful and oppressed they will be a source of opposition to the regime Next are Syrians grievances Back in 2011corruption poverty and social inequality united the uprising Things have only got worse Syria s gdpis one third of what it was before the war The unreckons that more than eight in ten peo
16、ple are poor Much of the country lies in ruins But the government s plans to rebuild Syria risk tearing it further apart Reconstruction will cost be tween 250bn and 400bn but Mr Assad has neither the money nor the manpower to carry it out So he has focused resources on areas that remained loyal The Sunni slums that did not are being demolished and redeveloped for his bourgeois supporters His cronies reap the profi ts as the country s class and religious fault lines grow wider Then there is Mr As
