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4 Sunday, June 5, 2016 National KARACHI: Head office: 509, Land Mark Plaza, I.I Chundrigar Road, Karachi, Pakistan. Ph: +9221-32214988- 32214990, Fax: +9221-32214989 messengerdaily@yahoo.com, editor@dailymessenger.com.pk Chief Editor: Muhammad Taqi Alvi Associate Editor: Ali Razavi - Hyderabad Bureau Chief: Abbas Kassar ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI EDITORIAL Least democratic parties top rulers: Pls give nation a change, for God's sake! SURPRISING facts with dark truths have again emerged as a reminder that second largest party Paksitan Muslim League (of sitting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif) now ruling Islamabad is the least democratic party in the country. NEWS, aside above fact people claim to be well known by them, also reminded that least democratic parties also included Pakistan People's Party (of Bhuttos, and now of Zardaris) regarded as #1 and largest party claimed to be enjoying nationwide vote and support, unlike many other parties limited to provincial politics, force and influence. OUTRAGEOUS, unbelievable and ridiculous enough: That's what those two majority parties on top of many successive rules, years long compiled voter lists and vote bank, may exclaim along with their long chain of fervent followers and loyalists. Opponents have already shrugged off as quite accurate, honest and true this survey by Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDAT) in their second annual report released recently about the internal democracy within political parties of Pakistan. SERIES of questions, like before, now arise after disclosure of this news. Could such an incredible "discovery" be credible? Sources close to leaders of parties branded as least democratic may traditionally toss off such reports as cheap tactics and the survey news as unauthentic and challenged. Their adversaries and many from this silently suffering nation against corrupt politics may continue to consider this survey as more or less honest and true enough. Why could not an Election Commission of Pakistan change and reform its polling system for better? In fact, both the two top parties PML-N and PPP(B or Z) mercilessly defeated many reform drives of PAT and PTI parties and their supporters in big rallies in Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Peshawar and Quetta in the past. PPP dishonored its accord with Pakistan Awami Tehreek of Allama Dr Professor Tahir ul Qadri and Nawaz League toyed with and compromised Pakistan Tehreek e Insaaf led by sports ace and world cup winner turned politician Imran Khan, on electoral reforms that are still believed to never come about, despite some investigative concessions and ballot cast in disputed constituencies. PILDAT survey may be a little indicator only to prove helplessness of a nation kept politically enslaved and economically dependent, though more educated people in urban and developed cities and towns are more aware of their own predicament than mostly rural illiterates in under developed areas, villages and shanty towns spread throughout Pakistan. Tragic though but frustrating is continuation of least democratic methods sliding a Pakistani nation down to quite a lowly and hence lamenting position, a dismal one compared to free, independent, law abiding and democratic rules elsewhere in more educated, disciplined and civilized societies around the world. PROBLEMS glare as this nation cannot progress or prosper when these two top political parties namely #1 Pakistan People's Party (PPP) founded by a great leader Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto from Sindh and #2 Pakistan Muslim League (Nawaz) are described as being among least democratic parties and as long as PPP and PML-N fail to hold genuine and authentic elections within their own parties, before they can proclaim their rule as democratic as few can believe or accept it without those recommended inter-party By Mustapha Karkouti While the United States has resigned from its role as the leading world champion, it shouldn’t be surprising to see how this action has created an unprecedented vacuum, with dangerous and even evil powers queuing up to fill that void. This sadly has been the case in the Middle East and Europe and even in some parts of Africa over the last few years. Having reached the dying days of his second and final term, US President Barack Obama’s administration is clearly going down the route, in the eyes of so many the world over, of a declining power. It was clear from the early days of his first term that the American president wanted to opt out of the world’s crises — whether in Afghanistan, Iraq and even Europe. Of course, as chief-of-staff of the only super power, it is his responsibility to decide on the best course of action to serve his country’interests first. His intention was made clear that he wanted to pull his country out from the quagmires of the war zones in Afghanistan and Iraq that cost US tax payers more than $3 trillion (Dh11 trillion) causing the largest deficit ever seen inAmerica’s history since the great depression of 1930s. Some 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks collapsed and the economy did not fully turn around until 1939, when the Second World War infused life back into America’s industries. Contrary to his predecessors, Obama’s policy of constraints defined his administration almost right from the beginning. For many, particularlyArabs, theAmerican president brought hope and vision to help steer the region away from the misery of wars to the road to peace, stability and prosperity. There are many reasons for that: First, in one of the major initiatives that the Obama administration took, just days after Obama moved into the White House on January 29, 2009, Hisham Melhem — the Washington D.C.-based chief-of-bureau of Saudi-owned pan-Arab satellite news channel Al Arabiya — was invited to interview the newly-elected president. He was intentionally picked from among hundreds of White House correspondents to convey the president’s message to theArab and Muslim worlds. Al Arabia was seen then as a prominent voice of moderation in the Middle East, presenting calmer elections. ONE-MAN-SHOW is quite common in subcontinental culture, as a legacy of kingly imperial dynasties, rules of feudal nawab and jagirdar warlords, big land and estate owners with large armies of loyal cronies and yes-men who ran up and down to serve their feeding master's every whim and pleasure. That natural inheritance in behavior of masses now continues from past many centuries up until now in this 21st century, though democracy was introduced in postindependence subcontinent that included India and Pakistan. PERSONALIZED-POLITICS mentality of majority of masses, individualized cults, followers' shooting up their leaders to top most heights, some people worshiping the corrupt leaders and deceptive anti-people politicians as being next to God are among an immature subcontinental "culture". It was inherited by local "black angrez" warriors who are big lords with a vast land divided between themselves and heirs to white English masters who once ruled them. The foreigner white masters could be fought and left their country but black angrez remained and cannot be told to leave their own country. People are therefore frustrated on what to do with them: With their enormous wealth, they directly or indirectly rule Pakistan, as they can and do make politicians to rule Pakistan the way they like, regardless of democracy. Otherwise, the big landlords and real estate owners with sheer might of their money, assets and wealth do isolate, defeat or retire any challenger politicians. This is a culture in which drastic changes were long overdue and reforms were needed in this respect. Other parties and leaders may raise voice and fight this least democratic trend and one man show or personalized politics, without desired results, as a single digit beneficiaries of this least democratic civilian rule with electoral frauds is stronger than real votes of majority of masses, misused and discarded, in Pakistan. Give people a change. FAKE-POLLS conducted within parties, aside deceitful national election frauds tracked down by officials and investigators, is another issue to be dealt with. Parties engage in fake inter-party voting as a showy exercise of little worth or value without desired democratic significance, despite claims by party leaders ot the contrary. SOLUTION is to reform parties, get rid of one man rule -- though a central or main party leader is almost always deemed to be necessary under these peculiar circumstances. And to facilitate and hold genuine free and fair polling of party members without fear or hindrance under suitable monitoring to block personal preferences by party leaders and administrators. It's also a bigger issue and necessity to to institute electoral reforms as an expediency now to hold free, fair, independent and transparent national elections in provinces and countrywide. These two elections, in these parties and throughout this country, must not be a facial makeup without cleansing of systemic dirt inside. That can be cleansed before anything else. A right and transparent system with accountability can change a decaying and closed system without accountability. A simple and final solution always suggested to cure a permanent disease of "less democracy" -- like it's in parties and elections in Pakistan -- is to have a permanent medicine and cure of "more democracy"! OPINION Obama will be remembered for his failures analysis than what many considered its rival and more sensational Al Jazeera was doing. Significantly, Obama said in his interview: “My job is to communicate the fact that the United States has a stake in the well-being of the Muslim world, that the language we use has to be a language of respect. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy.” Second, on the back of this remarkable interview, Obama held important head-to-head meetings in the White House with King Abdullah of Jordan, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. But his most significant move came on June 4, 2009, when he delivered a wide-ranging speech, titled ‘A new beginning’, from the Major Reception Hall at Cairo University.AlAzhar University co-hosted the event. Obama reached out to the Muslim world and said he was seeking “a new way forward, based on mutual respect and mutual interest”. He also said he was willing to “extend a hand” to those “who clinch power through corruption and deceit, if they are willing to unclench their fists”. On March 19, 2009, Obama continued his outreach even to Iran, whose leadership rebuffed him promptly. The Cairo speech came about in response to a promise that Obama had made during his presidential campaign, to deliver a major address to Muslims from a Muslim capital during his first few months as president. He spoke in his speech about putting an end to his country’s wars in the region and beyond, achieving Arab- Israeli peace in his first term based on the Saudi peace initiative of 2002, engaging Syria and Iran and helping Arabs who rebelled against despots. Third, the American president has certainly earned wide-ranging international respect as a result of his statements and diplomatic moves before the first year of his presidency even ended. In fact, the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded on October 9 to Obama for “extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between people”, the Norwegian Nobel Prize Committee declared. The committee cited Obama’s promotion of nuclear non-proliferation, but more importantly, the committee highlighted the “new climate in international relations” fostered by Obama, particularly in “reaching out to the Muslim World”. 50,000 students getting Technical Training Colleges, Training Centers in Sindh: MD STEVTA Abbas Kassar CHAKWAL, Jun 4: Former Federal Minister Lt Gen (R) Abdul Majeed Malik has died due to heart attack in Chakwal. His funeral was offered at his native village Jand Awan, Chakwal on Saturday HYDERABAD, Jun 4: Managing Director Sindh Technical Education and Vocational Training Authority S.M.Kaleem Makki has said that around 50,000 boy and girl students were getting technical education and training in 251 colleges and centers in Sindh. Yet there was need to give technical training and education to more youth for which media cooperation is needed as he said it was through media that our youth can make their future bright. This he said while talking with media at Technical College for women at Affendi town Hyderabad. On this occasion Nazir Ahmed Channa director operation, Dr. Lubna Mahmood, Ms. Shahana director Hyderabad and others were present . He said BA and MApass young men can hardly get jobs while those getting technical education can easily have reach to self employ- HYDERABAD: MD SVETA, SM Kaleem Makki visiting Technical College for women. ment. To a question he said there happen to be 70% boys while 30% girls. He assured ,computers. To a question about corruption in his department he said he would adopt mentioned here that most of this amount has been spent on renovation of Technical college the principal of technical college such foolproof methods of boys Wahdat colony for women that he would see if he can enhance the against such menace which he said has taken shape of international Hyderabad. Deputy director of department at Hyderabad Ms. budget and other facilities for phenomenon. Shahana told this reporter that girls. He visited various sections of college where girls were busy getting training on sewing machines, embroidery However he did could not answer to point about corruption of Rs.155 millions rupees in his department. It may be she would look into the allegations of corruption in repair work of colleges/centers and purchase of equipments. Former Federal Minister Abdul Majeed Malik dies Sawan Khaskheli BADIN Jun 4: According to details, poor peasant of village Baqar Mori, Mr. Noor Hassan Lashari along with his spouse and kids protested against the land lord and Badin police in-front of Badin Press Club. While holding the press afternoon. M e a n w h i l e , P r i m e Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif has expressed deep sorrow and grief over the demise of former Federal Minister Lt. Gen. (R) Abdul Majeed Malik. conference, Mr. Noor Hassan Lashari told the media that he along with his family is living in Badin but influential land lord with support of Badin police pressurized them to leave their plot otherwise face hard consequences. Land lord, Mr. Soomro Lashari, Hassan Lashari and According to a statement issued from Lahore on Saturday, the Prime Minister sympathized with the bereaved family and paid tributes to the political and social services of former Minister. Peasant along with family protests against landlord Our Correspondent HYDERABAD, Jun 4,: Retired employees of Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited observed token hunger strike in front of press club here Saturday against non- payment of enhanced pensions to them under orders of Supreme Court. The hunger strike was led by Mansoor Bhatti and Mazhar Mangi and was joined by Azam Qureshi, Najeeb Rehman, Nadeem Thathvi, Usman Iqbal,Rafiqullah, Shafiq Beg, Farooq Boota, Nazir Memon and Shabihul Hassan and others. They told that 40,000 pensioners and 15000 widows have been deprived of payment of pensions allowed to be increased by apex court in its decision on 12-06-2015. They said even Senate and National Assembly have issued orders to PTCL for payment of pensions according to orders of Supreme others wish to occupy forcibly their plots with support of police, they alleged. They alleged that influential land lord threatened them to bitter consequences if they were not leave the plot. They appealed the from high ups to rid them from cruel land lord and provide them protection. G-14/4 tube well of Sector restored ISLAMABAD Jun 4: Tube well of Sector G-14/4 has been restored and supply of water reinstated to the areas. Director General Housing Foundation under the directives of Federal Minister for Housing and Works and Senate Standing Committee, the water supply system was restored to provide water to the residents. Director General Housing Foundation has also issued directives to install three new tube wells to overcome the shortage of water in Sector G/13. Tender notices regarding installation of new tube wells have been published in newspapers. Apart from that, action was taken against encroachments including commercial and residences houses in Sector G/13 and G- 14/4. Contractor expedited the work due to which infrastructure work has been accomplished in streets while possession letters are being given to the allottees. PTCL pensioners token hunger strike against non payment of enhanced pensions Court of Pakistan. They warned if their demands were not met they would march from Karachi to Khyber and if yet if Gilani calls for boycott of sham poll in Islamabad district SRINAGAR, Jun 4: In occupied Kashmir, the All Parties Hurriyet Conference Chairman, Syed Ali Gilani has appealed to the people of Islamabad district to boycott the so-called Assembly elections in the constituency scheduled to be held on June 22. Syed Ali Gilani in a statement issued in Srinagar said, “We have a set policy regarding every type of election drama held in Kashmir, Instead of a democratic practice, elections in Kashmir in presence of 10 lakh heavily armed Indian troops are just military exercises and India uses it as an argument in the international forums to justify its forced control on Kashmir and portrays it as referendum of the Kashmiri people in its favour.” He challenged the pro- India parties and the authorities to remove thousands of forces camps from civil populations, release pro-freedom leaders, lift ban on Hurriyet activities and let the people decide freely then it will no more be possible for them to hold election dramas in the territory. Youth dies after falling down from tractor trolley Waheed Phulpoto SHIKARPUR, Jun 4: A youth identified as Bahadur Lashari of 28, resident of village Jan Muhammad Lashari was died after fallen down from speeding tractor trolley at Indus highway in the limits of Dakhan Police Station of district Shikarpur on Saturday. The dead body of the deceased handed over to his relatives after conducting an autopsy from Rural Health Centre [RHC] Dakhan. demands were not met the pensioners of PTCL would observe hunger strike unto death at D chowk Islamabad. HYDERABAD: Members of All Pakistan PTCL Pensioners Action Committee chant slogans against non-payment of their dues during protest demonstration at Hyderabad press club.
Sunday, June 5, 2016 International 5 Over 17,000 homes in and around Paris remain without electricity Paris floods: Seine level starts dropping after 30-year high Paris museums move artworks to safety as Seine river keeps rising PARIS, Jun 4: The levels of the River Seine in Paris have started dropping slightly after reaching a 34-year high on Saturday. The river level rose to 6.1m (20ft) above its normal height overnight. Floods also forced parts of the metro system and major landmarks to close, while the Louvre and Orsay museums were shut while staff moved art to safety. Despite the water level falling on Saturday morning, Paris remains under the second-highest alert, which warns of a "significant impact". Forecasters had warned the river could reach as high as 6.5m above it normal level. France's environment ministry said the floods now appeared to have peaked and would remain stable over the weekend before retreating further. Prime Minister Manuel AMMAN, Jun 4: The Syrian army has crossed the boundary of Raqqa province after advancing in a major Russianbacked offensive against Islamic State militants, the Valls said four people had died and 42 were injured across the country. At least 18 people have died across central Europe as Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a group that monitors the war, said on Saturday. Heavy Russian air strikes hit Islamic State-held territory in eastern areas of heavy rainfall caused flooding from France to Ukraine. A woman in her 60s drowned in France's central Loiret region, while a man in Syria's Hama province, near the boundary of Raqqa province, on Friday and the army reached the edge of the province. Raqqa city, further east, is his 70s fell from a horse and drowned in a river south-east of Paris. Eleven were killed in southern Germany as several Islamic State's de facto capital in Syria and, along with Mosul in Iraq, the ultimate target of those seeking to destroy the group's self-declared caliphate. Syrian army spokesmen were not immediately available for comment. The Syrian army offensive is the third big assault on the self-proclaimed caliphate in recent days after Iraqi forces attempted to storm a city and a Syrian militia advanced with U.S. support. The three big offensives are some of the most aggressive campaigns against Islamic State since it declared its aim to rule over all Muslims from parts of Iraq and Syria two years ago. towns were devastated. On Friday night, 51 people were injured by lightning strikes at the Rock am Ring music festival in western Germany. Two more fatalities were reported in Romania and one in Belgium. Austria, the Netherlands and Poland have also been affected. Tens of thousands of people have been forced from their homes. While the waters in Paris appear to be dropping, the floods are still affecting transport in the capital, with four of the city's rail lines not running on Saturday morning. Elsewhere, French media say the focus is shifting to communities further downstream on the Seine, including the northern city of Rouen. Some further rain is expected in central France. Over 17,000 homes in and around Paris remain without electricity. Argentine president Syrian army enters Raqqa province in Macri treated for 'mild' heart problem offensive against Islamic State BUENOS AIRES, Jun 4: TAIPEI, Jun 4: On the anniversary of China's bloody crackdown on student-led protests in and around Beijing's Tiananmen Square, Taiwan's new president told China on Saturday that democracy is nothing to fear. Tsai Ing-wen said in a Facebook post on the 27th anniversary that Taiwan could serve as an example to China. Tsai said in the run-up to Taiwan's elections earlier this year she had seen people from from China, as well as the Chinese territories of Hong Kong and Macau, mixing with crowds in Taiwan. "These many friends, after experiencing things for themselves can see that in fact there's nothing scary about democracy. Democracy is a good and fine thing," wrote Tsai, who took office last month. China sent in tanks to PARIS: View of the flooded river-side of the River Seine near the Eiffel tower in Paris, France, after days of almost non-stop rain caused flooding in the country. Democracy is nothing to fear, Taiwan tells China on Tiananmen anniversary break up demonstrations on June 4, 1989. Beijing has never released a death toll but estimates from human rights groups and witnesses range from several hundred to several thousand. The subject remains all but taboo in China, where President Xi Jinping is overseeing a broad crackdown on rights groups and activists. Tsai also said in her Facebook post about the Tiananmen crackdown's anniversary that nobody SINGAPORE, Jun 4: The United States stepped up pressure on China on Saturday to rein in its actions in the South China Sea, with top defense officials underlining Washington's military superiority and vowing to remain the main guarantor of Asian security for decades to come. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said the U.S. approach to the Asia-Pacific remained "one of commitment, strength and inclusion", but he also warned China against provocative behavior in the South China Sea. Any action by China to reclaim land in the Scarborough Shoal, an outcrop in the disputed sea, would have consequences, Carter said. "I hope that this development doesn't occur, because it will result in actions being taken by the both United States and ... by others in the region which would have the effect of not only increasing tensions but isolating China," Carter told the Shangri-La Dialogue, a regional security forum in Singapore. "The United States will remain the most powerful military and main underwriter of security in the region for decades to come – and there should be no doubt about that." could deny the material advances China had made under the Communist Party. However, China would win even more respect internationally if it gave its people even more rights, wrote Tsai, who is from Taiwan's proindependence Democratic Progressive Party. Taiwan is the only part of the Chinese-speaking world which holds free elections, and Tsai risks upsetting Beijing with her frank remarks on Tiananmen. President says Somalia will select new parliament due in August MOGADISHU, Jun 4: Somalia will choose a new parliament as planned later this year and the president and regional leaders will meet on June 20 to discuss how future lawmakers will be selected as there will not be a popular vote, the president's office said. Somalia abandoned its plan to hold a popular vote in 2016 last July. The current government and parliament's term ends in August and new lawmakers are due to be chosen in the same month. In its last elections, in 2012, members of parliament were chosen by elders and then those lawmakers chose Hassan Sheikh Mohamud as president. It was Somalia's first vote since 1991, when warlords ousted president Mohamed Siad Barre, plunging the country into years of war and chaos. Argentine President Mauricio Macri was taken to hospital on Friday to be evaluated by doctors after he suffered a "mild arrhythmia", or irregular heartbeats, the government said. The 57-year-old, who took office in December, experienced the arrhythmia midafternoon, but "it did not prevent him from continuing work and keeping the agenda of planned activities," the president's office said in a statement late on Friday. After Macri concluded his schedule in the evening, his medical team recommended a check-up at the Olivos Clinic hospital in Buenos Aires. "Tests are concluded and it is verified that the arrhythmia has reverted. The president will stay a few more hours before returning home," the president's office said. YILAN, Jun 4: Taiwan is determined to build a local defense industry, the island's new president, Tsai Ing-wen, said on Saturday as she toured a naval base and took a ride on a homemade 600-ton warship. Taiwan, isolated diplomatically and reliant on the United States as its only arms supplier, has struggled to maintain modern military wares in the face of China's growing might across the 180 km-wide Taiwan Strait to its west. Taiwan's military is looking to build its own submarines and next generation jet trainers, and its navy has begun programs to build minesweepers, support ships, and small stealthy warships. Constrained by budgets and Amber Heard sues comedian Stanhope for defamation over Johnny Depp LOS ANGELES, Jun 4: Lawyers for actress Amber Heard filed a defamation lawsuit against comedian Doug Stanhope on Friday after he wrote an article accusing her of blackmailing and manipulating her estranged husband, actor Johnny Depp. The complaint was filed in Cochise County, Arizona, against Stanhope and 20 unnamed individuals associated with the comedian. The lawsuit demands a jury trial and says that Heard would donate all proceeds to a battered women's shelter in Arizona. Representatives for Stanhope and Depp did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The complaint is in response to a May 29 guest column by Stanhope published on entertainment trade outlet TheWrap.com and headlined "Johnny Depp Is Being Blackmailed by Amber Heard – Here’s How I Know." Stanhope, who said he was a friend of Depp's, wrote that Depp had told him that Heard was leaving him and "threatening to lie about him publicly in any and every ZURICH, Jun 4: Austria's anti-immigration Freedom Party (FPO) is very likely to formally challenge the result of last month's presidential election and is calling for postal ballots to be abolished, its leader said on Saturday. Asked how likely it is the FPO will formally challenge the result of possible duplicitous way if he didn't agree to her terms." "Blackmail is what I would imagine other people might put it, including the manner in which he is now being vilified," Stanhope wrote. Lawyers for Heard called Stanhope's comments, detailed in the complaint, "completely false and highly defamatory." the vote, which its candidate Norbert Hofer narrowly lost, Heinz- Christian Strache said in an interview with radio station OE1: "It is very likely ... over 50 percent." He said the party would make its decision by Wednesday, the deadline for challenges. "If the irregularities The lawsuit is the latest step in the increasingly acrimonious split between Heard, 30, and Depp, 52, who had been married for 15 months. Heard filed for divorce from Depp in Los Angeles last month, citing irreconcilable differences, and obtained a temporary restraining order against the actor. Austria's Freedom Party likely to challenge presidential election result: OE1 approvals required in arms sales from the United States, the government hopes that building a home-grown defense industry will increase technological know-how, create jobs and boost economic growth. Defeated Nationalists fled to Taiwan in 1949 after losing a civil war with Mao Zedong's Communists, and the island has been self-ruled are confirmed by legal experts ... then we have a responsibility to democracy," Strache said. The FPO has said it is examining several irregularities that have come to light in individual polling stations, ranging from postal ballots having been counted too early to the number of votes having been overstated. "Postal ballots in their current form have to be abolished," Strache said in the interview, adding that voting by mail did not meet constitutional requirements for a secret ballot. Former Greens leader Alexander Van der Bellen won the presidential election on May 22 with a narrow lead of roughly 31,000 votes. Taiwan's new president, on naval visit, champions local defense industry The top U.S. military commander in the region, Admiral Harry Harris, told reporters at the forum that Washington needed to operate from a position of strength against "all outcomes". "The bottom line is this: we want to co-operate where we can, but we just have to be ready as a military to confront them if we must," he said. The South China Sea has become a flashpoint between the United States, which increased its focus on the Asia-Pacific under President Barack Obama's "pivot", and China, which is projecting ever greater economic, political and military power in the since. China still deems Taiwan a wayward province, however, to be taken back by force if necessary, especially if it begins taking concrete steps toward independence. US vows 'actions' if China builds new South China Sea structures region. Carter however said he would welcome China's participation in a "principled security network" for Asia. "Forward thinking statesmen and leaders must ... come together to ensure a positive principled future," he said, adding that the network he envisaged could also help protect against "Russia's worrying actions" and the growing strategic impact of climate change. The deputy head of China's delegation to the forum said any attempts by the United States to isolate China would fail. "This is a time of cooperation and common security," Rear Admiral Guan Youfei told reporters. "The U.S. action to take sides is not agreed by many countries. We hope the U.S. will also listen to the other countries." Other Asian leaders said the situation in the South China Sea was viewed with concern across the region. "All countries in the region need to recognize that our shared prosperities and the enviable rate of growth that this region enjoys over past decades will be put at risk by aggressive behavior or actions by any one of us," Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar told the forum.
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