The Chinese perception of luxury is still that high-end brands are from Europe and the U.S. Their entire understanding of luxury is that Europe is its birthplace.
The quite obvious implication of this fuller understanding of Shariah is that one cannot speak of Shariah-compliant finance, business, or economics in the U.S. without understanding Shariah as articulated by the Shariah authorities and its ramifications for the U.S. investor.
As an Officer of the U.S. Navy for thirty-six years, his initiatives contributed directly to the economic stability and humanitarian understanding in the Pacific and Indian Ocean regions.
For Europe and the U.S., realpolitik means understanding they can never outbid China, Russia or any other conscience-free competitor in supplying investment-as-aid to Southern Africa.
He is a self-made millionaire with a better understanding of terrestrial radio than anyone else in the U.S. If anyone knows how to exploit the advertising opportunities for satellite radio, it is Mel.