MAYBE this is the era, the 21st century, when selfishness exonerates itself with justice.

It began with tea, about 400 years agowhen people had not yet learnt from the wrongs of colonialism. In 1773, the British conservative government gave the rights for monopoly trade in tea to the private East India Company. Like the Dutch East India Company in the Indies, the East India Company received powers that today are unbelievable: it could conquer, gov