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Thursday, December <strong>13</strong>, <strong>2018</strong><br />
National<br />
Jeffrey D. Sachs<br />
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ISLAMABAD –– LAHORE –– RAWALPINDI –– KARACHI<br />
OPINION<br />
It is not just trade, US now<br />
starts tech war with China<br />
The US rarely arrests senior businesspeople,<br />
US or foreign, for alleged crimes<br />
committed by their companies.<br />
The arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou<br />
is a dangerous move by US President Donald<br />
Trump's administration in its intensifying conflict<br />
with China. If, as Mark Twain reputedly<br />
said, history often rhymes, our era increasingly<br />
recalls the period preceding 1914. As with<br />
Europe's great powers back then, the United<br />
States, led by an administration intent on<br />
asserting America's dominance over China, is<br />
pushing the world toward disaster.<br />
The context of the arrest matters enormously.<br />
The US requested that Canada arrest Meng<br />
in the Vancouver airport en route to Mexico<br />
from Hong Kong, and then extradite her to the<br />
US. Such a move is almost a US <strong>dec</strong>laration of<br />
war on China's business community. Nearly<br />
unprecedented, it puts American businesspeople<br />
traveling abroad at much greater risk of<br />
such actions by other countries.<br />
The US rarely arrests senior businesspeople,<br />
US or foreign, for alleged crimes committed<br />
by their companies. Corporate managers<br />
are usually arrested for their alleged personal<br />
crimes (such as embezzlement, bribery, or violence)<br />
rather than their company's alleged<br />
malfeasance. Yes, corporate managers should<br />
be held to account for their company's malfeasance,<br />
up to and including criminal charges;<br />
but to start this practice with a leading Chinese<br />
businessperson, rather than the dozens of culpable<br />
US CEOs and CFOs, is a stunning<br />
provocation to the Chinese government, business<br />
community, and public.<br />
Meng is charged with violating US sanctions<br />
on Iran. Yet consider her arrest in the<br />
context of the large number of companies, US<br />
and non-US, that have violated US sanctions<br />
against Iran and other countries. In 2011, for<br />
example, JP Morgan Chase paid $88.3 million<br />
in fines in 2011 for violating US sanctions<br />
against Cuba, Iran, and Sudan. Yet Jamie<br />
Dimon wasn't grabbed off a plane and whisked<br />
into custody.<br />
And JP Morgan Chase was hardly alone in<br />
violating US sanctions. Since 2010, the following<br />
major financial institutions paid fines<br />
for violating US sanctions: Banco do Brasil,<br />
Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of<br />
Moscow, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays,<br />
BNP Paribas, Clearstream Banking,<br />
Commerzbank, Compass, Crédit Agricole,<br />
Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo,<br />
JP Morgan Chase, National Bank of Abu<br />
Dhabi, National Bank of Pakistan, PayPal,<br />
RBS (ABN Amro), Société Générale, Toronto-<br />
Dominion Bank, Trans-Pacific National Bank<br />
(now known as Beacon Business Bank),<br />
Standard Chartered, and Wells Fargo.<br />
None of the CEOs or CFOs of these sanction-busting<br />
banks was arrested and taken into<br />
custody for these violations. In all of these<br />
cases, the corporation - rather than an individual<br />
manager - was held accountable. Nor were<br />
they held accountable for the pervasive lawbreaking<br />
in the lead-up to or aftermath of the<br />
2008 financial crisis, for which the banks paid<br />
a staggering $243 billion in fines, according to<br />
a recent tally. In light of this record, Meng's<br />
arrest is a shocking break with practice. Yes,<br />
hold CEOs and CFOs accountable, but start at<br />
TODAY IN HISTORY<br />
home in order to avoid hypocrisy, self-interest<br />
disguised as high principle, and the risk of<br />
inciting a new global conflict.<br />
Quite transparently, the US action against<br />
Meng is really part of the Trump administration's<br />
broader attempt to undermine China's<br />
economy by imposing tariffs, closing Western<br />
markets to Chinese high-technology exports,<br />
and blocking Chinese purchases of US and<br />
European technology companies. One can say,<br />
without exaggeration, that this is part of an<br />
economic war on China, and a reckless one at<br />
that.<br />
Huawei is one of China's most important<br />
technology companies, and therefore a prime<br />
target in Trump administration's effort to slow<br />
or stop China's advance into several high-technology<br />
sectors. America's motivations in this<br />
economic war are partly commercial - to protect<br />
and favour laggard US companies - and<br />
partly geopolitical. They certainly have nothing<br />
to do with upholding the international rule<br />
of law.<br />
The US is trying to targeting Huawei especially<br />
because of the company's success in<br />
marketing cutting-edge 5G technologies globally.<br />
The US claims the company poses a specific<br />
security risk through hidden surveillance<br />
capabilities in its hardware and software. Yet<br />
the US government has provided no evidence<br />
for this claim.<br />
A recent diatribe against Huawei in the<br />
Financial Times is revealing in this regard.<br />
After conceding that "you cannot have concrete<br />
proof of interference in ICT, unless you<br />
are lucky enough to find the needle in the<br />
haystack," the author simply asserts that "you<br />
don't take the risk of putting your security in<br />
the hands of a potential adversary." In other<br />
words, while we can't really point to misbehaviour<br />
by Huawei, we should blacklist the<br />
company nonetheless.<br />
When global trade rules obstruct Trump's<br />
gangster tactics, then the rules have to go,<br />
according to him. US Secretary of State Mike<br />
Pompeo admitted as much last week in<br />
Brussels. "Our administration," he said, is<br />
"lawfully exiting or renegotiating outdated or<br />
harmful treaties, trade agreements, and other<br />
international arrangements that don't serve our<br />
sovereign interests, or the interests of our<br />
allies." Yet before it exits these agreements,<br />
the administration is trashing them through<br />
reckless and unilateral actions.<br />
The unprecedented arrest of Meng is even<br />
more provocative because it is based on US<br />
extra-territorial sanctions, that is, the claim by<br />
the US that it can order other countries to stop<br />
trading with third parties such as Cuba or Iran.<br />
The US would certainly not tolerate China or<br />
any other country telling American companies<br />
with whom they can or cannot trade.<br />
Sanctions regarding non-national parties<br />
(such as US sanctions on a Chinese business)<br />
should not be enforced by one country alone,<br />
but according to agreements reached within<br />
the United Nations Security Council. In that<br />
regard, UN Security Council Resolution 2231<br />
calls on all countries to drop sanctions on Iran<br />
as part of the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement. Yet<br />
the US - and only the US - now rejects the<br />
Security Council's role in such matters. The<br />
Trump administration, not Huawei or China, is<br />
today's greatest threat to the international rule<br />
of law, and therefore to global peace.<br />
1753 George Washington, the adjutant of Virginia, delivers an ultimatum to the French forces at<br />
Fort Le Boeuf, south of Lake Erie, reiterating Britain's claim to the entire Ohio River valley.<br />
1770 The British soldiers responsible for the "Boston Massacre" are acquitted on murder charges.<br />
1862 The Union loses its first ship to a torpedo, USS Cairo, in the Yazoo River.<br />
1863 Orders are given in Richmond, Virginia, that no more supplies from the Union should be<br />
received by Federal prisoners.<br />
1901 Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio transmission in St.<br />
John's Newfoundland.<br />
1927 Communists forces seize Canton, China.<br />
1930 The Spanish Civil War begins as rebels take a border town.<br />
1930 The last Allied troops withdraw from the Saar region in Germany.<br />
1931 Under pressure from the Communists in Canton, Chiang Kai-shek resigns as president of the<br />
Nanking Government but remains the head of the Nationalist government that holds nominal<br />
rule over most of China.<br />
1943 The German Army launches Operation Winter Tempest, the relief of the Sixth Army trapped<br />
in Stalingrad.<br />
1943 The exiled Czech government signs a treaty with the Soviet Union for postwar cooperation.<br />
1956 The United Nations calls for immediate Soviet withdrawal from Hungary.<br />
1964 Kenya becomes a republic.<br />
1964 Three Buddhist leaders begin a hunger strike to protest the government in Saigon.<br />
1967 The United States ends the airlift of 6,500 men in Vietnam.<br />
1979 South Korean Army Major General Chun Doo-hwan, acting without authorization from<br />
President Choi Kyu-ha, orders the arrest of Army Chief of Staff General Jeong Seung-hwa,<br />
alleging that the chief of staff was involved in the assassination of ex-President Park Chung<br />
Hee.<br />
Ban imposed on entry of heavy vehicles<br />
on Express way during duty hours<br />
ISLAMABAD: During<br />
routine movie making of<br />
Public Service Vehicles<br />
Photographer Asghar Ali<br />
found a lost child in the<br />
area of Beat-07<br />
. During initial investigation<br />
the boy told that his<br />
name is Faisal Mehmood<br />
S/O Muhammad Qaiser<br />
R/O Rawalpindiand told<br />
the NH&MP official that<br />
he ran away from home<br />
due to some domestic<br />
issues.<br />
PTI to contest, win next local<br />
bodies elections: Bashir Sodhar<br />
Abbas Kassar<br />
H Y D E R A B A D :<br />
Pakistan Tehrik Insaf<br />
leader Bashir Ahmed<br />
Sethar, joint secretary<br />
Sindh has said his party<br />
after winning general elections<br />
has started organization<br />
in Sindh so to contest<br />
next local bodies elections<br />
and with its pro people<br />
policies, hoped they would<br />
win with vast majority.<br />
Addressing news conference<br />
here on Wednesday.<br />
He said PTI federal government<br />
has taken some<br />
difficult <strong>dec</strong>isions but people<br />
would be getting their<br />
benefits in near future.<br />
Such <strong>dec</strong>isions are taken in<br />
public interest. He said<br />
when Imran Khan took<br />
over reign of power national<br />
exchequer was empty<br />
and economy in doldrums<br />
in such a situation any government<br />
could have not last<br />
even one month. But their<br />
leader Imran Khan was<br />
taking country out of hot<br />
water and sailing it to prosperity<br />
through his wisdom<br />
and political acumen. He<br />
hoped that it is not far<br />
ISLAMABAD: District<br />
administration Islamabad<br />
has imposed a ban on the<br />
entry of heavy vehicles on<br />
Express way during duty<br />
hours in the morning and<br />
in the evening for 2 hours<br />
in order to stop severe traffic<br />
jam.<br />
According to media<br />
reports, a formal notification<br />
has also been issued in<br />
this regard by the Deputy<br />
Commissioner.<br />
It has been said in the<br />
notification that there is<br />
severe traffic jam on the<br />
express way from 7am to<br />
9am in the morning and<br />
5pm to 7pm in the evening<br />
due to movement of heavy<br />
vehicles on the road.<br />
Citizens and children<br />
going to their offices and<br />
schools have to face great<br />
difficulties in their movement<br />
therefore <strong>dec</strong>ision<br />
has been taken to ban entry<br />
of heavy vehicles on the<br />
express way during duty<br />
hours.<br />
On the other hand,<br />
administration of federal<br />
government has also<br />
The boy further<br />
infomed that he has lost<br />
his way to home.<br />
Motorway Police officers<br />
Inspector Ajmal Khan &<br />
Inspector Naseem Abbas<br />
kept the child in their custody<br />
and strived to find<br />
the whereabouts of the<br />
lost child. After a comprehensive<br />
search operation,<br />
the NH&MP officers successfully<br />
traced out family<br />
of the said child. Lately,<br />
the child was handed over<br />
away when people would<br />
get relief. He refuted<br />
charges of political victimization<br />
adding that all cases<br />
of corruption, money laundering,<br />
etc against Sharif<br />
brothers, PPP leaders were<br />
framed before PTI government<br />
took over. He<br />
<strong>dec</strong>lared that though the<br />
opposition was trying to<br />
blackmail government to<br />
get NRO but clarified that<br />
PTI government would<br />
never issue such NRO to<br />
save corrupt and plunderers<br />
of national wealth. He<br />
said they were not against<br />
imposed a ban on the provision<br />
of petrol to motorcyclist<br />
without helmet.<br />
DC Islamabad has<br />
informed the administration<br />
of all petrol pumps in<br />
this regard.<br />
According to an issued<br />
National Highways & Motorway Police<br />
reunite a 12 year’s old boy with his parents<br />
M A . Rehmani<br />
to his father namely<br />
Muhammad Qaiserin<br />
presence of witnesses.<br />
The pleased fatherappreciated<br />
this kind act by<br />
officers of NH&MP. The<br />
DIG N-5 North Zone<br />
Ashfaq Ahmed admired<br />
and appreciated the<br />
efforts of the officers and<br />
expected the same from<br />
all the officers of N-5<br />
North Zone in discharge<br />
of their official obligations.<br />
Salaries delay, RIUJ hold protest<br />
outside the Geo office Islamabad<br />
ISLAMABAD –The<br />
Rawalpindi-Islamabad<br />
Union of Journalists (RIUJ)<br />
held a protest here on<br />
Tuesday at front of the Geo<br />
TV office Islamabad .<br />
Protesters rays salogan,s<br />
against Jeo TV honours<br />
,they were demanded releases<br />
the continued since four (PBA), and Council of stakeholders get together to<br />
month delay of salaries to Pakistan Newspapers resolve the issue.<br />
jeo tv media workers staff. Editors (CPNE) to whom Afzal but president<br />
A large number of journalists<br />
he wrote letters to resolve (PFUJ) said, he had suggested<br />
had gathered for the<br />
demonstration . Union leaders<br />
the crisis.<br />
The union leaders that all newspapers<br />
publish an identical editorial<br />
addressed to the demon-<br />
stration gathering , said the<br />
Ideally, he pointed out that<br />
to cope with such a situation,<br />
all stakeholders should<br />
have worked out a way.<br />
They said , it was a pity he<br />
addresses said , the media<br />
workers were now wondering<br />
if this crisis was created<br />
intentionally to bring them<br />
onto the roads.although the<br />
workers were not being paid<br />
it was strange that the electricity,<br />
on a given day, and then<br />
publish one-page blank; and<br />
as a third step, television<br />
channels leave their screens<br />
blank for 10 minutes before<br />
their news bulletins. Afzal<br />
but warened if that the Geo<br />
received no positive<br />
gas, and water sup-<br />
TV officials did not<br />
response from All Pakistan plies of the news organizations<br />
immidiately pay of rhe<br />
Newspapers Society<br />
were not cut off due to would hold protests outside<br />
(APNS), Pakistan non-payment.<br />
the channal,s accross the<br />
Broadcasters’Association the were insisted that all country.<br />
Sindh government but<br />
sorry to say that PPP during<br />
last 11 years rule in<br />
Sindh has done no development<br />
work except corruption.<br />
He deplored that<br />
Sindh government was<br />
lathi charging against jobless<br />
and growers demanding<br />
early start of sugar<br />
mills and fair price. Even<br />
teachers are not spared, he<br />
added. He said PPP has<br />
deprived people of sufficient<br />
food and health.<br />
Scores of children were<br />
dying in Thar for want of<br />
nutrition and medical care.<br />
notification by DC<br />
Islamabad, 68 motorcycle<br />
mishaps happened this<br />
year. Motorcycle riders<br />
were not following the preventative<br />
measures due to<br />
which casualties has been<br />
increasing day by day.<br />
60 years old man<br />
crushed to death<br />
by speedy coach<br />
Abdul Mateen Mahar<br />
Staff Reporter<br />
KHAIRPUR: A 60-<br />
year-old man crushed to<br />
death by a Sspeedy coach<br />
in Ranipur, on Wednesday<br />
morning.<br />
According to details,<br />
the incident was occurred<br />
near Rehman CNG at<br />
mehran national highway<br />
when a speedy coach hit a<br />
man. As a result 60-yearold<br />
man named Darya<br />
Khan Jato was dead on the<br />
spot. Police reached the<br />
spot and shifted the dead<br />
body to Ranipur hospital.<br />
Meanwhile, coach driver<br />
escaped from the scene<br />
after committing crime.<br />
Police stop<br />
marriage of<br />
underage girl<br />
Vijay kumar<br />
N A W A B S H A H :<br />
Sakrand Police intervened<br />
in time to stop a forced marriage<br />
of an underage girl<br />
Saba Arain detained the<br />
bride and bridegroom and<br />
relative and took into custody<br />
on Tuesday.<br />
According to report,<br />
SHO Sakrand Ali Ahmed<br />
Halepoto told to daily messenger<br />
that on secrete information<br />
we raided at the<br />
home where marriage was<br />
being taken place at sakrand.<br />
Saba, Fatima and<br />
Reshma Arain were taken<br />
under custody.<br />
He said they would bring<br />
miseries and deprivation of<br />
people of Sindh to national<br />
forums and compel PPP<br />
government in Sindh to<br />
play its role for solving<br />
problems of people. He<br />
deplored gas crisis in Sindh<br />
and demanded from federal<br />
government that as there<br />
was no gas load shedding<br />
in Punjab as such Sindh<br />
should also be spared from<br />
same. Sikendar Ali<br />
Lashari, SNT chairman<br />
Ashraf Noonari and others<br />
were also present on the<br />
occasion.