Investors in McCarthy & Stone must be asking themselves, "What market turmoil?" as the shares have soared since its £1bn listing in November.
But its economic ones still make people nervous.On May 13th, the ethnic-Chinese community in the capital, Jakarta, got another taste of what economic turmoil means for the country.
What the turmoil in Egypt also demonstrates is how much Israel is surrounded by a huge population of young Arabs and Muslims who have been living outside of history — insulated by oil and autocracy from the great global trends.
What the turmoil of the past 10 years have served to emphasise is the need to be vigilant about the power exercised by our governments, and to work to ensure that the human rights of all people – Muslim or otherwise – are properly safeguarded.
This is what that turmoil in Asia is about: societies moving painfully into the orbit of this universal civilization.
If you really want to understand what the turmoil in eastern Asia is all about, you will get more from reading V.S. Naipaul than from studying the financial sheets.
What effect turmoil overseas will have moving forward is less clear.
