レバノン、カルロス・ゴーンと日本 Lebanon, Carlos Ghosn and Japan

レバノンは5年前に日産の元社長のカルロス・ゴーンが逃げ込んだ国です。

そして、2年間の2022年6月27日 東京新聞のレバノンに関する見出しは以下の通りです。

「中東の火薬庫」レバノンの今、政治改革の兆しも経済は低迷続き、市民は「自国通貨が紙くず同然」と嘆き。

先日聞いたBBCラジオの番組「ハードトーク」で司会者とレバノンの元政府高官とのインタビューでは、レバノンでは依然として1年半以上も大統領が決まらず、汚職が蔓延し、経済は破綻している国です。

カルロス・ゴーン関係の深い国と理解すればレバノンの現状は納得できるのかもしれません。ただ、レバノンも犯罪者のカルロス・ゴーンにはずっと甘くはないようです。（添付日経記事参照）

カルロス・ゴーンになめられた日本も数十年も続く経済的、技術的な低迷を今後更に続けると大変なことになります。

Lebanon is the country where former Nissan president Carlos Ghosn fled five years ago.

And two years on, June 27, 2022, the Tokyo Shimbun's headline on Lebanon reads as follows.

Lebanon, the "powder keg of the Middle East," continues to experience a sluggish economy despite signs of political reform, and its citizens lament that their currency is as good as scrap paper.

In an interview with a former Lebanese government official with the host of the BBC Radio program "Hard Talk," I listened to the other day, the former said that Lebanon still has not had a president for over a year and a half, corruption is rampant, and the economy is in ruins in their country.

The current situation in Lebanon may make sense if we understand that the country has deep ties to Carlos Ghosn. However, it seems that Lebanon is not much more lenient with the criminal Carlos Ghosn either now. (See attached Nikkei article.)

Japan, licked by Carlos Ghosn, will be in trouble if it continues its decades-long economic and technological slump further into the future.