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12 8 - 14 January, 2018 N Editorial ◆◆ By David Kilgour Author & Lawyer www.NewDelhiTimes.com NEW DELHI TIMES North America, Japan, India and the Trans Pacific Partnership egotiating a free trade agreement with an increasingly totalitarian and plutocratic party-state in China, which treats its Tibetan, Falun Gong, Uyghur, Christian, farm, urban worker and other communities appallingly, should be unthinkable for any democratic country. Canadian Clive Ansley, who practised law in Shanghai for 14 years until 2003, notes that its Communist party has long operated outside and above the law: China is a brutal police state…There is a current saying amongst Chinese lawyers and judges who truly believe in the Rule of Law…: ‘Those who hear the case do not make the judgment; those who make the judgment have not heard the case’…. Nothing which has transpired in the ‘courtroom’ has any impact on the ‘judgment’. Nonetheless, with the U.S. trade deficit with China for the first U nine months of 2017 alone being $US274 billion and the Canadian one being also far too high, some in both countries still believe our goods and services could obtain better access to China’ s market through bilateral free trade agreements. Many others say that Japan, India and a revised Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), including a number of other regional democracies with rule of law, are the best major trade option for both Canada and the U.S. in Asia and the Pacific Rim. Although the Trump administration has shunned the TPP, a future U.S. president might well join. Renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) quickly and successfully is also vital. The United States, Canada and Mexico now trade more than US$ 1.2 trillion in goods yearly, with Canadians and Mexicans being the two top buyers of U.S. exports. Millions of skilled workers and consumers in all three nations require NAFTA to continue in essentially its present form. While likely that chaos will result if the Trump administration scraps NAFTA, the current odds of successful negotiations at the upcoming next round in late January are only about 50-50. The White House could also seek to withdraw from it by executive order. Japan, the world’s third-largest economy, which has assisted many nations in Asia, appears to be throwing its business, diplomatic and political weight behind India and the TPP. Its snap election in October returned to office prime minister Shinzō Abe and his Liberal Democratic Party(LDP) with 312 seats in its 465-member House of Representatives. India in turn has become Asia’s fastestgrowth economy and is expected to surpass China in population by 2022. Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, its increasing self-confidence and need for investment is resulting in continuously falling trade and investment barriers. The TPP was intended to create a unified counterbalance to China’s regional power and magnify the trading capacity of democratic nations having the rule of law, social market economies, fair trade and freedom of the seas-values some of which Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau recently voiced in Beijing. Modi chose a visit to Tokyo to reproach China on its bad behaviour in Asia, alluding to the Chinese military build-up in the South China Sea, its heavy-handedness in Tibet, its territorial ambitions in northern India and more. He added, “Everywhere around us, we see an 18th-century expansionist mindset: encroaching in other countries, intruding in others’ waters, invading other countries and capturing territory.” Australia, similar to Canada in many ways but with a heightened awareness of the security challenge represented by Beijing, has embraced the emerging Japan-India coalition. At the first India-Australia-Japan trilateral dialogue in 2015, the three governments discussed China at length, and, according to the Japanese, there was a high degree of consensus on the issues raised. The participation of Australia is significant because it indicates that smaller democracies with Pacific interests needn’t choose between China and their traditional alliances. Australia has a bilateral free trade deal with Beijing, but this doesn’t mean Australians are naïve about the need to protect their security interests or the dangers of becoming overly reliant on a regime that believes any attempt to counter its ambitions is an affront. The world economy is now improving overall and unemployment is mercifully falling in some nations despite predatory trade and other economic practices by China, Russia and others. Canada should still trade cautiously with the Middle Kingdom, but our recent experience with the aborted launch of free trade negotiations in Beijing indicates that trade cannot outrank a judicious advancing of our strategic interests in concert with those who share our values. Japan, India and a revised TPP are the best trade option for both Canada and the U.S in Asia. David Kilgour, a lawyer by profession, served in Canada’s House of Commons for almost 27 years. In Jean Chretien’s Cabinet, he was secretary of state (Africa and Latin America) and secretary of state (Asia- Pacific). He is the author of several books and co-author with David Matas of “Bloody Harvest: The Killing of Falun Gong for Their Organs.” EU rebuffs Israel; Opposes US stand on Jerusalem ◆◆By NDT Bureau @NewDelhiTimes info@newdelhitimes.com S President Donald Trump’s declaration of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel has stirred the hornet’s nest. The opposition to Trump has now come from the most unlikeliest of places - European Union and European allies. The Jerusalem decision fast-paced decades of US diplomacy and broke with international consensus and could take the situation ‘backwards to even darker times’. When Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrived in Brussels for talks with European leaders hisexpectation of ‘all or most’ European countries following the US declaration were promptly belied. The 28-nation bloc’s foreign policy head Federica Mogherini gave him a stern rebuff, telling him to ‘keep his expectations for others’. Netanyahu countered that Trump’s announcement — through controversial for raising street protests and diplomatic alarm across the Islamic world — had in fact ‘put facts squarely on the table’. The EU’s diplomatic chief at Brussels bluntly rejected Netanyahu’s suggestion that Europe would follow the US in recognising Jerusalem as the Jewish state’s capital. She said there won’t be any change to EU stance on Jerusalem. The EU expressed alarm at the US decision, but Netanyahu said Trump had simply acknowledged the facts. Jerusalem had been the capital of the Israeli state for 70 years and of the Jewish people for 3,000 years. “It doesn’t obviate peace, it makes peace possible, because recognising reality is the substance of peace, it’s the foundation of peace,” Netanyahu stated alongside Mogherini ahead of a breakfast meeting with EU foreign ministers. “I believe that all or most of the European countries will move their embassies to Jerusalem, recognise Jerusalem as Israel’s capital, and engage robustly with us for security, prosperity and peace,” Netanyahu said. Hours of talks between Netanyahu and the EU ministers, failed to convince Mogherini who flatly rejected Netanyahu’s suggestion to follow Trump. “He can keep his expectations for others, because from the European Union member states’ side this move will not come,” she said, adding that the European Union- Palestinians’ largest donor - would stick to the ‘international consensus’ on Jerusalem. She reiterated the EU’s stance that ‘the only realistic solution’ for peace is two states — Israel and Palestine — with Jerusalem as the capital of both and the borders returned to their status before the 1967 Arab-Israeli War. She pledged to step up efforts with the two sides and regional partners including Jordan and Egypt to relaunch the peace process. Netanyahu blamed Europe’s ‘hypocrisy’ for criticising Trump’s statement, but not ‘the rockets fired at Israel or the terrible incitement against it’. Mogherini followed up condemning atta-cks on Israel. “Let me condemn in the strongest possible way all attacks on Jews everywhere in the world, including in Europe, and on Israel and on Israeli citizens,” she said. Netanyahu viewed the new US peace initiative as a possible way forward. “There is now an effort under way to bring forward a new peace proposal by the American administration. I think we should give peace a chance. I think we should see what is presented and see if we can advance this peace,” he said. Photo Credit : Shutterstock Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has been developing a new US proposal to revive peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians, but strong reaction to Trump’s declaration has halted its progress. Mogherini indicated that US efforts were at a very early stage, as ‘both horizon and framework’ — the end goal and how to get there — had still not be clearly defined. Both Israelis and Palestinians claim Jerusalem as their capital and all peace plans have stumbled on whether and how to divide sovereignty or oversee holy sites. Now EU’s stubborn resistance stalls American initiative towards a solution.
8 - 14 January, 2018 13 A Think - Tanks NEW DELHI TIMES NAM calls for comprehensive approach towards the issue of missiles M ◆◆ By Dr. Pramila Srivastava @PramilaBK ps.a@iins.org s the clock struck 12 this January 1st, we all probably tossed and turned and thought about the year that had pass. One popular custom we all follow each New Year’s is making resolutions. We all try to change something about us, like we promise ourselves that this New Year we will diet and lose weight or we try to kick a bad habit, save money etc. Making New Year’s resolutions are widely popular. According to studies, about 40 percent of people make them. According to a study which followed 200 people who made resolutions for a two year period, a whopping 70 percent keep their resolutions for a week and 64 percent keep it for a month, which then goes down to 50 percent in three months and finally less 19 percent are successful for the two year period. The New Year is sort of a wake up call to tell that another year has passed in our lives and that day spurns us into action. So we wake 1st of January year after year and promise ourselves that this would be the year we lose all that weight, or save all that money, go on a vacation of our dreams, make better choices. So how do we tackle the New Year and keep our resolutions successfully. Lets rehash all that we spoke about in this column in the last year. Let’s look at New Year as just a gentle ◆◆ By International Institute for Non - Aligned Studies @iinsNAM iins@iins.org issiles continue to be a focus of increased international attention, discussion and activity. Their potential to carry and deliver weapons of mass destruction (WMD) payload quickly and accurately makes missiles a qualitatively significant political and military issue. In addition, the diversity of international views on matters related to missiles poses a particular challenge for efforts to address the issue in multilateral fora. These concerns are related to, inter alia, the increasing number, range, technological sophistication and geographic spread of missiles and their capability of delivering weapons of mass destruction, in particular nuclear weapons, as well as conventional weapons, missile defences and their strategic consequences, the potential use of space-launch vehicle technology for the development of missiles, the role of missiles in military doctrines as well as the role and scope of confidencebuilding measures. NAM Member States are committed to establishing a peaceful international order based on a rule of law. As part of promoting the principle of disarmament, NAM has highlighted the need for a multilaterally negotiated, universal, comprehensive, transparent and non-discriminatory approach toward the issue of missiles in all its aspects as a contribution to international peace and security. NAM has expressed its support This New Year; a New You? reminder of practicing good habits; mental and physical to be happy. Let’s start our day right As popular speaker Tony Robbins says we should spend ten minutes in our day priming ourselves to have a better life. Wake up and breathe, like really breathe. Practicing deep breathing is a good way to pump some energy into our bodies. Pick an activity like running, swimming, dancing or hit the gym anything to get our blood pumping to prime us for the day. Instead of focusing on losing weight, shit your focus to becoming healthier. So eat better, workout take the healthy route to losing weight. Practice Gratitude This can never be said enough, A part of your morning routine and your nighttime should be to take the time to be grateful. Practicing gratitude is a very good way to take stock of our lives. Instead of focusing on the difficult part of our lives, when we take the time to say thanks we begin to see a change because even in the toughest of times we are choosing to be positive rather than negative. When we are grateful we forget to be angry or resentful, it helps us focus on all the good. We should practice gratitude for even the smallest things like the sunset or the wind in our face, the smile of a child. for efforts to be continued within the UN to explore further the issue of missiles in all its aspects. In this regard, NAM has emphasized the contribution of peaceful uses of space technologies, including space launch vehicle technologies, to human advancement, such as for telecommunications and data gathering on natural disasters. The Movement has emphasized the need to keep the issue of missiles in all its aspects on the agenda of the UN General Assembly and welcomed that the Panel of Governmental Experts established in accordance with Resolution 59/67 successfully concluded its work in 2008 and submitted its report to the 63rd session of the UN General Assembly. The Movement has encouraged follow up efforts to further examine the elements contained in the conclusions of the UN Secretary- General’s Report A/63/176. The report discusses the background and present situation with regard to missiles, and identifies a number of key issues which should be taken into account in order to address, in a comprehensive manner, the issue of missiles in all its aspects. These issues include, inter alia, the global and regional security backdrop which provides the motivation (or lack thereof) for missile development, testing, production, acquisition, transfer, possession, deployment and use; the circumstances of transfer to and use of certain types of missiles and missile technology by State or non-State actors; the issue of disarmament, arms control and non-proliferation; the interrelation between Be Spiritual and Mindful Spirituality should be the cornerstone of your New Year, in every thing and every moment we should practice mindfulness, being fully present in the moment. Meditation, yoga, Tai Chi is all activities that help us center ourselves be more one with ourselves and bring greater resilience to our days. Prayer is a beautiful thing, it is talking with God himself and we all need to cast our worries and burdens on God and believe in a higher power than ourselves. When we don’t believe in a higher power, we take on all the worries on ourselves but we should know that it is not humanly possibly to deal with life. We look to a higher power, we are further strengthened by his love and grace which doctrines, strategies and missile-related behaviour; the relative salience of ballistic and cruise missiles as well as missiles as delivery vehicles for weapons of mass destruction or conventional arms; missile defence; and the increased contribution of space-based capabilities to a wide range of human endeavours. NAM agrees with the conclusion of the report that it is important to have continued international efforts to deal with the increasingly complex issue of missiles in the Name :.......................................................................................................................................... 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Laugh out Loud Find the laughter in the darkest moments of your lives, when we respond to the tough times with humor there is a light that is shines upon us. It is good for our health our peace of mind, there is actually no better medicine than interest of international peace and security, and to further deliberate on the issue, specifically focusing attention on existing and emerging areas of consensus. In this context, NAM has emphasized the important role of the United Nations in providing a more structured and effective mechanism to build such a consensus. NAM’s firm position is that pending the achievement of such a universal approach related to delivery systems for weapons of mass destruction, any initiative to address these concerns effectively and in a sustainable and comprehensive manner should be through an inclusive process of negotiations in a forum where all States could participate as equal. The Movement thus stresses the importance of the security concerns of all States at regional and global levels in any approach to the issue of missiles in all its aspects. (in arrangement with News from Non-Aligned World) www.iins.org One year Five year Rs. 350 Rs. 1500 A-2/59 Safdarjung Enclave New Delhi - 110029 India Ph. No : +91-11-26102520, Fax : +91- 11- 26196294 E-mail : info@newdelhitimes.com Web : www.newdelhitimes.com Photo Credit : Shutterstock laughter. So instead of feeling sad one week later when we break our resolutions, let’s focus on the bigger picture, let’s make it our lives mission to invest in our peace of mind and happiness not just the 1st of January every year rather throughout the year let’s practice these simple yet highly effective habits. So a very Happy New Year to all of you. www.NewDelhiTimes.com
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