{NEWS] Five links on the future: water wars, cities of Africa, Japan, EU borders, Pakistan

[rfmcdonald]

• Earther shares a world map produced by a group predicting where political conflicts over water scarcity will be likely to develop.


• Ozy notes that the fastest-growing cities in the world will be in Africa.


• This Project Syndicate essay suggests that the economy of Japan is actually doing a better job than some metrics suggest, at least on per capita measures. Is Japan pointing a way towards a better future in the high-income world?


• The Irish Times visits the Poland-Ukraine borders to see how well, or not, traffic there flows. Of special note to the Irish readers is the fact that, despite everything else, Ukraine is trying to get closer to the EU, not further away as with the Brexit UK.


• This essay at The Atlantic looks at how the Pakistan of Imran Khan is negotiating multiple spheres of influence, the West and China and the Middle East, all at once.