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...week or so ago I bought some pomegranates in my local fruit market in New Delhi. They were huge and glowed bright red, and the small juicy crystals of flesh inside tasted as good as they looked. But the most remarkable thing about the fruit was the box they came in. It was stamped in big, bold letters with the words "Kandahari Pomegranates. Export Quality. Products of Afghanistan...
...late 1970s, Afghanistan was famous for its pomegranates, grapes, apricots and other fruit. Since then, as war cut the old trade routes and Afghanistan became isolated, traditional markets have been lost. So what were these pomegranates doing in my local fruit shop? And if they were available in Delhi, why aren't they in North America or Europe, where pomegranate popularity has boomed thanks to their health properties (mmm, antioxidants!), use in cocktails (mmm, pomegranate Manhattans!) and the recent revelation by California scientists that pomegranate juice may be a good alternative to Viagra (ahem)? Could Afghanistan be on the brink...
...China and India had no such demands. The U.S. has long maintained that it won't sign onto a new deal unless the developing countries are included in a more substantive way - a position unlikely to change even when the occupant of the White House does. Beijing and New Delhi both argue that the vast majority of historical carbon emissions came from the developed nations (CO2 stays in the air for up to 200 years), so action should come from the rich first - a contention arguably supported by the UNFCCC itself, which calls for "common but differentiated responsibilities" between nations...
...growing interest in India, some analysts say, is also an attempt to avoid putting all their eggs in China's basket. "There is a degree of apprehension over the fact that European [multinationals] are too deeply entrenched in China," says Rajendra K. Jain, professor of European Studies at Delhi's Jawaharlal Nehru University. "There is also concern in Europe over issues such as intellectual property rights violation in China; some 70% of European fakes come from China." Jain says India, whose growth, unlike China's, has been primarily domestically driven, is beginning to look more promising. "The E.U.'s calculation...
...Putin, Chinese President Hu Jintao and Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva this year. And among its "strategic partners" - a term India accords to countries whose long-term interests dovetail with India's - are not only the E.U., but the U.S., Japan, Russia, China, Israel and Iran. New Delhi, it seems, is flirting with all and promising marriage to none...