Trump #3: More Davos15Friends

Beyond Finland's snow and Nokia, and the Birmingham DFID landmine exhibition, UK Trade Envoy to Bangladesh Rushanara Ali MP must be keen to develop support for the refugee camps on the Myanmar border, as well as longer-term rail upgrades through to India.

The ASEAN Rail project for example now linking Thailand and Cambodia through to Battambang - and now the more difficult phase between Phnom Penh and HCMC that was delayed by WW1 and WW2 and the Khmer Rouge- has at long last almost every Asian capital connected to rail.

That's a lot of Indian and Thai rice that can be moved more easily into and through Bangladesh and Myanmar. And the Bangladeshi restaurants and cuisines that comprise most of UK’s Indian restaurants.

And the South Asian diaspora of c.50%#### of UK immigrants beyond restaurant kitchens to the NHS operating rooms and GP waiting rooms.

While Brand USA tourism aims on India tourism could be served up faster and more easily with UK and India and Bangladesh efforts through the Commonwealth.
And specifically with both the India and Bangladeshi diasporas in UK – Babita Sharma of BBC World on the corner shop with over 90% within the M25 owned by Asians.

UK and USA tourism with India could easily be phased beyond peak season and the main sites through coordinated effort - with UK Consuls in Hyderabad for example. And why shouldn't UK and USA coordinate on Indian study programmes in their main universities?

Not every Indian student would want to go to UK or USA and nor could every university accommodate them. But sensible planning could ensure more quality educations for South Asian students.

And with at least three Indian CEO's in the #TrumpDavos15Friends surely those brands would be pushing for greater coordination and activity too.

With my Surin Village School Charity hat on, the growth in schools is required in Africa and India - still over 60M kids and 10% of UNMDG - rather than just ASEAN. And a Surin School at just $30,000 each must raise questions over how the $20BN each in UK and USA aid is being spent beyond the wine bars of London and New York, or Geneva and Brussels?

While Nokia and Microsoft or Panasonic would be ideal for an Innovation Centre and exhibitions and conferences. Nokia Mobile World at the Margate Winter Gardens? Geek Week already a fun stalwart of the East Kent festival calendar and harbinger of Manga Town with computer games etc.

#Maybe those Kent and Thai orchids or Hello Kitty handkerchiefs and Isaan silk socks could become a part of Kent Police uniform. Certainly the Kent Police Innovation Fund developing on crime prevention with the futuristic Las Vegas Minority report-style work of Deputy Chief Brandon.

Novartis (Davos#14) though could even hand out some smoking patches In India as well as for Kent's 16% tobacco-stained youth. How bizarre of KCC's elderly councillors to insist on investing police and nurse pensions in tobacco (and fossil fuels) whilst being responsible for public health. You just couldn’t make it up could you?

Surely Deloitte (Davos#8) or HSBC (Davos#9) could review those funds?

And Arnold Schwarzenegger, London's best body builder, arm-wrestling POTUS Trump in an intra-republican bit of rivalry would be a pay-to-view sports event worth watching sponsored by Adidas (Davos#3) or not. At Margate Winter Gardens or not. And helicoptered in by Boeing or not.

But surely the Austrian Oak's Arnold Sports has long been neglected in Europe - a Nokia broadcast and NFL feature initially?

While the 2020 Golf Masters in East Kent is teeing up for Thailand's Tiger Woods et al with upgraded hi-speed rail links already. Sandwiches being prepared in Sandwich - home of Tom Paine - as we speak, and Nestle KitKats being ordered. There's only two years to go.

Surely the Davos 15 could each take a hole or two in sponsorship? Keen golfer POTUS Trump is going to turn up to kick off Kent's world class golf courses beyond just Scotland and Florida? Even a round of Crazy golf at Broadstairs Lilliput range – the windmill, the pyramid with the hole on top and so on.

And Nestle bottled water a key strategic interest of former CEO Peter Brabeck-Letmathe and in need of replenishment for the nineteenth hole as well as UNSDG30.

And as the Libya and Syria and Yemen civil wars draw to a close, those Boeing cargo planes and helicopters need filling with something more useful than cluster bombs. Nestle bottled water such as Pure Life and Maggi Noodles and SMA baby foods? Even a few bars of Unilever's Lifebuoy soap or Lucky Iron Fish?
Certainly the next UN Water Forum in Hungary in 2019 and ideal place to compare notes and successful case studies.

Novartis though a giant of smoking cessation. Along with UK as one of the world's leading nations in reducing smoking over the decades. And clearly with 5M global deaths from tobacco still a growth market.

But UK faltering in its smoking cessation work: just 3% of Norwegian under 24's smoking compared to 16% in UK. Whether they work at Statoil or not. That's a lot of Nicorette patches needed that even Novartis would struggle in producing without say Bayer and Johnson and Johnson support. A nicotine patch and stop smoking leaflet, alongside Bayer aspirin in that J&J Resilience Box perhaps not such an outrageous idea?

It would be the work of moments for HSBC and Deloitte to stub out their cigarettes and vapes, and crunch the numbers on the savings to the health service and economy in longer and healthier lives.

And DHL might need a bigger plane to deliver nicotine patches and vaccines to Africa. While 30,000 deaths from Rabies in India each year must be absurd in the 21st century.

And the new Boeing factory in Sheffield surely working with Airbus in Toulouse - the Coke and Pepsi of aircraft manufacturing - on the next generation of less polluting and circular economy aircraft. Climate Change Resilience requiring more cargo planes and cargo helicopters rather than F35 jets and gunships.

John McCain's Arizona backyard can't continue to be littered with rusting aircraft in need of recycling? Chilean recycling and steel and Argentine rail (Siemens already) through to Germany and VW from Arizona would be the circular economy in perfect flow.

Africa in need of those UNSDG30 vaccines urgently especially with every airline on the EU banned list from Africa. And with air links more viable into Europe than between African nations. While the latest POTUS Trump speech at Miramar (San Diego again) last week highlighting the need for USMC equipment spare parts and repairs. And Marine One looks fairly rusty to me - hopefully USCG have better SAR and medevac Caribbean Resilience kit.

The June-to-November Caribbean hurricane season almost upon us again and BBCTV Beyond 100 Days this week detailing Puerto Rico's 3M population still without power after 6 months and official mortality figures underplayed by a factor of x20.

If USA can't protect Puerto Rico after a disaster, surely the Caribbean Commonwealth must be even more nervous about the Royal Navy efforts again. Don't send in the Royal Marines?

Siemens or ABB or SAP must be able to produce a few hundred thousand solar panels and generators in their new factories? While the Heinz factories of Preston and Chorley could turn out stockpiles of tins of beans? Maybe just a supply of extra saucepans though rather than Toshiba microwaves.

And, through the Panama Canal, Manila's Karen Jimeno Infrastructure Minister, quietly pulling together both a Philippines Resilience Plan with Japan and measures to preserve Boracay Beach from the blight of over-tourism.

But no wonder POTUS Trump flies to Florida with USA's rapidly crumbling infrastructure demonstrated in the horrific bridge collapse and Amtrak rail crashes.

And New York Times Climate Change reporter Hiroko Tabuchi highlighting in a series of articles from Nashville and NYC the lack of pedestrian and cycling routes and joined-up public transport that AI and driverless cars could deliver on.

The National Governors Association and Association of Mayors clamouring for concrete investment beyond the #TrumpDavos15Friends already?

Flyover country long a flyspeck on Washington's windshield, beyond mere boondoggle projects and earmarks, that the #TrumpDavos15 could help reverse.

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