By New Age Islam Edit
Desk
24 November 2020
• Shocking Details Of Immigrant Abuse In
America
By Azadeh Shahshahani And Sarah Paoletti
• Capitalism: Pakistan’s Bigger Worry
By Dr Noor- Ul- Huda
• China, Japan And The RCEP - Part II
By Dr Naazir Mahmood
• Will Trumpistan Come To An End? ( Partii)
By Shahid N Zahid
• Welcome Back America – Warning, Foreign
Policy Challenges Ahead!
By Saad Masood
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Shocking Details Of Immigrant Abuse In America
By Azadeh Shahshahani And Sarah Paoletti
November
24, 2020
In
mid-September, several organisations including Project South filed a complaint
with the inspector-general of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS OIG)
about medical abuse immigrants were facing at the Irwin County Detention Centre
in the US state of Georgia. It provided shocking details of medical malpractice
including a high number of invasive gynaecological procedures with dubious
consent procedures, in some cases leading to sterilisation. The complaint was
based in part on revelations by Dawn Wooten, a whistle-blower nurse employed at
the centre.
According
to media reports, at least 57 women have come forward with complaints of forced
and harmful gynaecological procedures endured at the hands of the doctor
contracted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to provide medical care
and some have faced retaliation by the authorities for speaking up. The medical
abuse at the detention centre has once again brought to light the need for the
international community to investigate the practices of the DHS and its agency,
ICE.
Several
weeks after the complaint was filed, on October 23, House Representatives
Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, and Ayanna Pressley sent a
letter to the United Nations, calling for a thorough, impartial and transparent
investigation by the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights
(OHCHR) into the numerous, persistent and grave violations committed with
impunity by DHS against immigrants detained in its custody.
Shortly
after, several civil society organisations, including Project South, submitted
a communication to the OHCHR Special Procedures Office with the relevant
mandates, also requesting an investigation. The document also calls on the UN
to urge the US government to take all necessary measures to end the abuse, and
to provide full redress and reparations to those who have suffered in ICE
custody at the Irwin County Detention Center, and immigrant detention centres
across the country.
The
different mandate holders will make decisions about what follow-up is
necessary. They may issue a statement of concern urging an end to abusive
practices within immigrant detention, protection and redress for those women
who have come forward; request an invitation from the US to conduct a site
visit to allow for an independent investigation and consultations with affected
parties, other stakeholders, and US government representatives; and can
ultimately issue a formal communication of their findings and recommendations,
including urging an end to immigrant detention except in extremely limited
circumstances and only as a matter of last resort, consistent with
international law.
A statement
or communication from the UN Human Rights mechanisms can then form the basis of
advocacy within the US, especially with the incoming Biden administration and
within the international community, including countries whose nationals have
been directly harmed.
These
formal requests submitted to the UN are a recognition of the failure of all
three branches of the US government to bring an end to a history of abuse
within immigrant detention. This is not just a failure of the Trump
administration, but of successive administrations which have continued to
pursue immigration policies that violate basic human rights and dignity and enrich
private prison corporations.
Violations
carried out by ICE officials have persisted and so has abuse in private
detention centres. ICE has continued and expanded contracts with such
institutions. including LaSalle Corrections, which operates the Irwin County
Detention Center. Last year, ICE’s own inspector general issued a report
detailing various violations by detention centres, including the inadequate
provision of food and medical services.
Human
rights organisations have also found evidence of various forms of abuse,
including deprivations of the right to freedom of religion; medical neglect
with fatal consequences; unsanitary and inhumane conditions of detention;
forcible separation of children from their parents; deaths of immigrants at the
hands of US Customs and Border Patrol; and retaliation against whistleblowers
and others seeking redress for abuses in detention.
For years,
immigrants at the centre and human rights advocates have been calling for
recognition of their right to dignity and to be treated humanely, but with
little success.
Having
witnessed for a long time the refusal of the US authorities to hold themselves
accountable for these grave abuses, we, as legal experts, have worked together
in pursuit of accountability through international institutions.
In May
2018, Project South and the Penn Law Transnational Legal Clinic sent a letter
to the OHCHR, which detailed numerous violations suffered by immigrants
detained at both Irwin and Stewart, including the rampant use of solitary
confinement as a form of punishment and control; forced labour and exploitation
of immigrants’ labour; alarmingly inadequate, neglectful and negligent medical
care, as well as the provision of unsanitary food and water; a disregard for
immigrants’ cultural and religious beliefs and race-based discrimination;
denial of due process; and interference in the right to family life.
In October
2018, 11 separate independent human rights monitoring bodies operating under
the auspices of the OHCHR sent a formal communication to the US government
expressing grave concern over reported rights abuses committed against
individuals held in immigration detention at the Irwin County Detention Center
and the Stewart Detention Center, also in Georgia and run by the for-profit
corporation, CoreCivic.
In the two
years since we sent this letter, we have repeatedly called upon the US
government to end these abuses, yet instead, they have persisted. Between
October 2018 and now, 30 immigrants are reported to have died in immigrant
custody, four of whom were detained at Stewart.
The time
has come for DHS and ICE to have their reckoning. The international community
must respond by leading an independent, thorough and transparent investigation
that ultimately results in accountability and redress for the untold number of
immigrants and their family members who have suffered at the hands of ICE and
the contractors profiting from their detention and abuse.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/748075-immigrant-abuse
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Capitalism: Pakistan’s Bigger Worry
By Dr Noor- Ul- Huda
November
24, 2020
“Indian
agent” is our favorite buzzword. These days, the show-stopper argument in the
political drag-race is to prove beyond doubt how one’s rival has pleased
Narendra Modi. And mic-drops. It appears in bad humor how Modi’s happiness has
become such an over-rated phenomenon. A man’s happiness, after all, shouldn’t
be so complex.
The
argument probably holds teeth that the India-factor stands behind most of
Pakistan’s troubles. I, for one, believe that Pakistan is much greater than
playing second-fiddle to any ‘factor’, and Pakistanis are empowered to shape
their own destinies in the face of any ‘factor. ‘The corollary follows that the
reactions of our leadership to the problems created by India, more than those
problems themselves, have actually hampered Pakistan’s progress greatly in the
longer run.
A case in
point is Pakistan’s siding with the US during the cold-war, due to existential
threats from India and the consequent ‘security-state’ that came into being.
India, meanwhile, claimed diplomatic superiority by pioneering the Non-Aligned
Movement. Calling it a strategic mistake would be a cognitive bias, since none
of us today can imagine the burden of sheltering a newly-born state in a
hostile neighborhood. However, an unbiased analysis leads to the conclusion
that this attempt to ensure state security brought many perils of itself.
Aid never
comes as a solitary visitor; it arrives with the caveats of subterranean values
and grafts of ill-fitting cultures. As the general scheme of things went in
cold-war era, Uncle Sam’s gifts to Pakistan came with a culture of capitalism
and neo-liberal economics. In today’s post-COVID world, even the Western
economic geniuses are calling for a roll-back on neo-liberalism. In case of
Pakistan, the reasons to do so are even more nuanced.
A Hadith
narrates that, “The biggest trial of my Ummah would be wealth.” Undoubtedly,
this hadith has stood the test of time. Today, everything is subservient to
economy. Education, gender, environment, religion, politics; name anything, and
it will be found serving only the economic ends. In Pakistan, education is
attained merely for the prospects of a better job and degrees are upgraded as a
bid to upward economic mobility. Sons are preferred to daughters because of
their better economic scope, prostitution and pornography are multibillion
dollar industries that cannot be rooted-out by any political strongman and all
genders other than the one predominant capital-holding gender are commodified
and held as property. Environment is being unsustainably exploited despite
disastrous consequences for the country’s very existence. Religion is used as a
trump-card in politics and as an established industry in rural areas and
suburbs for monetary gains. And politics, by all means, is the game of wealthy
Seth’s.
A
practically plausible model is that of the mixed economies of Scandinavian
states, where wealth is not the sole fantasy, rather, community service and
intellectual pursuits are also aggrandized
The
destruction doesn’t end here. For decades, the Western policy-makers have been
calling out capitalism for its sins. As early as 1938, American sociologist
Robert Merton postulatedin his Strain Theory that the contemporary culture puts
pressure on individuals to attain the pre-dominant success symbol i.e. wealth.
Inability to acquire wealth puts individuals under ‘strain’, hence, crimes are
committed to be able to attain wealth and social status. As recently as 2020,
economist Noreena Hertz in her book, The Lonely Century, states that
neoliberalism makes us “see ourselves as competitors, not collaborators,
consumers, not citizens, hoarders, not sharers, takers, not givers.”. Even
before the outbreak of COVID-19, top-notch economists, such as the Nobel Prize
winning Joseph Stiglitz, were calling for a modified, and more responsible,
“progressive capitalism.”
Looking
back, one wonders what benefits the Capitalist-bloc brought onto Pakistan. A
fragmented social structure vacillating between the traditional Islamic values
of the past and the ‘whatever-goes’ capitalist mentality, crippling
classinequality and poverty, a tainted reputation around the globe, and rampant
Islamophobia. Things would have looked very pleasant for Pakistanis and Muslims
had the mujahideen not been trained in Pakistan and had OBL been found hiding
in Nepal or Bhutan maybe.
Prime
Minister Imran Khan likes to believe that our greatest problem of all is
corruption. That being the case, the policy-makers need to address the
root-cause of corruption and scratch beneath the surface instead of managing
the symptoms by knee-jerk policies. Catching a few white-collar criminals
behind the bars would not improve the situation on-ground. We need to realize
that a culture where wealth is the sole entity that a child strives for till
his last breath does not bide well for any society. A country where a pandemic
is undermined just to keep the economy running doesn’t set a good example. It
is no surprise, then, to find every single profession marred by various shades
of corruption.
We need to
change our value system to eradicate most of our problems. Of course, shifting
to an egalitarian Islamic economy is not a possibility at this time. However, a
practically plausible model is that of the mixed economies of Scandinavian
states, where wealth is not the sole fantasy, rather, community service and
intellectual pursuits are also aggrandized. The process begins in the
classrooms where external exams are not taken in the early school years to
discourage cut-throat competition and dog-eat-dog world; and the absence of
huge inequalities doesn’t make money a problem. The consequences in these
countries are evident; economic superiority, literacy rate approaching 100%,
peace, amity, and the lowest crime rates in the world.
Change is
the only law of the world, and change we must, lest we should proceed to a
world where patriotism, humanity and all other emotions are outdone by the lust
for personal success.
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Dr Noor- ul- Huda is a doctor and a
prize-winning author.
https://dailytimes.com.pk/692872/capitalism-pakistans-bigger-worry/
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China, Japan and the RCEP - Part II
By Dr Naazir Mahmood
November
24, 2020
While the
countries of the Far East and South East Asia have signed the RCEP, where does
Pakistan stand? According to the IMF’s estimates, Nepal and Pakistan will be
among the lowest performing countries. Not only Bangladesh but even Bhutan,
Maldives, and Sri Lanka are performing better than Nepal and Pakistan.
After
signing the RCEP, how is China expected to fare? First, due to the corona
pandemic nearly all economies of the world are going through a recession,
sparing China which is prospering. Just one month’s statistics of September
2020 show a remarkable rise of nearly 10 percent in Chinese exports with nearly
13 percent growth in imports. It is imperative to note that with the onset of
the coronavirus, China imposed a strict lockdown for nearly three months facing
tremendous losses to its economy before July 2020 when it started its rebound
which is likely to accelerate after the signing of the RCEP.
Both
America and India will deprive themselves of any possible benefits from the
RCEP, whereas Japan will show a much better performance led by its able PM Suga
who has already shown his mettle. He has already tried to capitalize off the
soaring international demands of Japanese electronic and medical equipment that
are considered among the best in the world. Even China is also catching up with
Japan in this field. In August 2020, Japan had faced a reduced economic
activity as a result of declining exports but now it is expected to bounce
back.
ASEAN is a
major trading partner of China and Japan followed by America and the EU, but
after the initiation of the RCEP, it is going to play a leading role. Here we
need to talk about the role of Pakistan because we have seen Arab countries and
Israel sign agreements to change the regional economy. On the other side,
partnerships such as the RCEP are bringing the countries of the Far East and
South East Asian even closer. And here we are in South Asia stuck with a
70-year-old thought pattern that prevents any better relationships with
neighbouring countries.
Be it with
Afghanistan and Iran or Bangladesh and India, or trade relations within the
South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc), we have failed to
alter our thinking at nearly all levels. We see in the Far East and in the
Middle East that from Bahrain, Emirates, and Israel to Australia, China, and Japan
all move forward by keeping their economic interest supreme. First, they
improve their trade relations that result in better political relations.
Bahrain, Emirates, and Israel have signed agreements to improve trade relations
by removing impediments to business cooperation.
The same is
happening with the RCEP in the Far East. Now trade routes are shrinking and to
facilitate intercontinental and intracontinental trade, intelligent leadership
is playing its role. While we are still repeating the mantra of ‘eternal
enemies’. We have been reluctant to open land routes from Central Asia to South
East Asia for which we need to give an open corridor.
Such a
corridor would bring in hefty economic benefits and also help us resolve the
military and political issues at hand. With the trade between the UAE and
Israel, both countries will reap rewards worth billions of dollars and create
thousands of new jobs. The same is expected in the RCEP countries; but we are
nowhere to be seen in this game from the Middle East to the Far East, nor even
in South Asia. All our hopes are pinned with CPEC, of which five years have
already passed but our economy is still headed to the abyss. The only remedy is
wider trade agreements.
From
Bahrain, Israel and the UAE to Australia, China and Japan – all have
compromised by a give and take process. And here we are trying to take all
resulting in meagre gains. We have not been able to reform our foreign policy
nor have we altered our military and political priorities. The way to modify these
we can find through trade to which General Musharraf did take some major steps
by opening bilateral trade via entry points in Kashmir. But then extremist
lobbies on both sides thwarted such attempts. When Benazir Bhutto met Rajiv
Gandhi and Vajpayee and Modi visited Nawaz Sharif in Pakistan, again all hell
broke loose.
We have
been coming back to square one time and again, or rather we have gone further
back. We need to remember that while signing the RCEP document all ten member
countries of ASEAN welcomed it and no one tried to spoil the deal. In ASEAN,
from Brunei, Cambodia, and Indonesia to Laos, Malaysia, and Myanmar (Burma) all
were unanimous in welcoming the five new non-ASEAN countries – Australia,
China, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea – to the new partnership. Australia
and Japan did not try to invoke old enmities with China and South Korea, nor
did the Philippines bring in the maritime dispute with China.
It shows
remarkable sagacity to keep your military and political differences aside so
that your economic and trade relations can flourish. What if the RCEP and Saarc
countries try to sign a similar agreement? Ideally, for this region and for
Asia at large the best option is to connect the RCEP with the SCO through
Saarc, creating a trade bloc stretching from New Zealand to Russia. For this
proposal, the CARs and Russia will be more than willing to join but the
intractable problem lies with the Saarc countries and especially with India and
Pakistan.
At the
moment, both India and Pakistan have worsened their relationship to squander
their resources on arms and bombs while neglecting the basic needs of their
people. Just take India, for instance, which has strained relations not only
with Pakistan but also with China. India objects to the Chinese railway project
connecting Tibet with the rest of the country because the railway line is not
far from Arunachal Pradesh, a state of India, which China still considers as
part of South Tibet. So, China is also not above board in this matter.
China is building
this nearly 50-billion-dollar project proving China’s superior economy and
expertise that India cannot match. India is also trying to improve its
infrastructure in this region but China is far ahead. India is consumed by
worries that after the completion of the railway project China will be able to
transport huge missiles closer to the border with India, reducing China’s
reliance on nuclear weapons in case of a full-blown war. The BJP government in
India – rather than trying to improve relations with China or RCEP – has been
fanning Hindu chauvinism within India.
Whenever
some governments fail to perform better economically, they try to use religion
as a deflection from people’s problems. With the recent victory of the BJP
alliance in Bihar, it has consolidated its position domestically and bullies
the neighbouring countries. We also see countries such as China and Vietnam
that have fought wars in the past – the 1979 war lasted for a whole month – but
still they have managed to forget the bitter war memories and moved forward to
extend hands of cooperation and friendship to each other. That is the spirit we
need.
Or look at
Cambodia and Vietnam which were in a state of war for nearly a decade from
1978, but now they are close friends. This spirit has facilitated first ASEAN
and now RCEP, which has kept its doors open for other countries. Will we ever
learn?
Concluded
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Dr Naazir Mahmood holds a PhD from the
University of Birmingham, UK and works in Islamabad.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/748072-china-japan-and-the-rcep-part-ii
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Will Trumpistan Come To An End? ( Partii)
By Shahid N Zahid
NOVEMBER
24, 2020
But is
Trump alone responsible? Not by any means. His enablers have been many, and
many continue to support him. The election results are almost all in, the
President-elect has been proclaimed by all the media, and been congratulated by
most of the world’s leaders, yet Trump has not conceded, refuses to do so, is
hunkered down in his fantasy world playing golf, tweeting endlessly about fraud
and the illegality of the electoral process and has proclaimed himself the
winner against evidence to the contrary. His lawyers, led by Rudy Guiliani, and
supported by Senators McConnell and Graham, along with many other lawmakers,
have started legal proceedings to contest the results in several key States.
Without any credible evidence it is unlikely that many of the suits will
prosper, but that has not deterred the man from pursuing his agenda. Trump’s
similarity to despots and dictators is there for all to see but he remains
admired and loved by millions of US citizens.
To undo the
damage done by Trump will require more than just a change of President. The
upper and lower houses of Congress remain bitterly divided, the so-called Red
and Blue States at loggerheads, and almost all branches of the administration
stacked with sycophants several layers down from the top. And while all US
administrations do appoint their own people across all departments, none in
recent years have done it as relentlessly as the current one. And the
irreversible appointments to the Supreme Court are something the US will have
to live with for decades to come.As the new administration comes to grips with
all the problems, their primary difficulty will be prioritizing all that needs
to get done. The dark cloud that Trump and his minions have cast over the
nation will require necessary and urgent attention.
He is a
large man with a very large ego, a narcissist with an infantile mindset and
behaviour to match. One can only hope for the sake of the USA that the shadow
cast by him over that country goes away as soon as possible.
But before
they get to that task they need to get to the White House, which the present
occupant is loath to leave. Trump has never admitted defeat, and being
officially declared a loser, which he soon will be, whether he likes it or not,
will be resisted by him as long as possible. There’s a good reason the term
Trumpistan is so apt. His behavior over his entire term has been more akin to
what one expects from a despotic dictator. The self-praise, the endless lies,
the personal attacks on his opponents, the name calling, the attempts at
muzzling the media, and vilifying them if they dared to report anything that
questioned his greatness or abilities. And the appointments, the nepotism, the
sycophancy, the corruption, the total disregard for the rules, regulations, and
many times the law. In short, his demeaning of the office and his attempts at
turning it into his personal fiefdom, a country that he would like to have
renamed after him and reshaped in his image. And aiding and abetting him in all
this were his minions, among his staff, and scattered across all branches of
the legislature and judiciary.
Anyone who
dares to oppose him, or even say anything that he perceives to be against him
would be sacked, cast aside, marginalized, and if none of that were possible,
vilified in his endless tweets. His twitter feed alone would keep a host of
psychologists busy for years if they were to go through and try to analyze his
mind and his ravings. But they needn’t bother. His behavior is totally
predictable and transparent. He is more than likely to do the wrong thing or
say the worst about his opponents. Never expect any graciousness, or civility,
or decency from the man. If you do, you will be sorely disappointed. He is a
large man with a very large ego, a narcissist with an infantile mindset and
behavior to match. One can only hope for the sake of the USA that the shadow
cast by him over that country goes away as soon as possible.
The rest of
the world has a very different relationship with that country, and each country
will have to deal with whatever serves the self-interest of the USA. That has
always been the case and will continue. It’s how all countries behave and no
one should expect anything different. All the rest of the world can hope for is
a more decent, a more measured, and a more responsible approach to geopolitical
and international concerns. For that alone, supporting a change in the US
administration is worthwhile.
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Shahid N Zahid is Development and public policy
expert
https://dailytimes.com.pk/692861/will-trumpistan-come-to-an-end-partii/
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Welcome Back America – Warning, Foreign Policy
Challenges Ahead!
By Saad Masood
November
24, 2020
A fiercely
divided vote, one party not conceding the election to the other, baseless
assertion of wide voter fraud, firings of key governmental personnel, military
commanders stepping into the fray. The reader would be forgiven to think that
is a political set piece from a developing country but it is not. These are the
happenings in the United States of America! Come what may, this year has surely
dented the international credentials of a country that was once the bastion of
the free world! And there are yet more challenges to come! Consider the
following five-headed hydra of foreign policy headaches for the incoming Biden
administration.
First, the
growing trust deficit between US and its allies across the world. Over the last
four years, the Trump administration has gradually receded inwards and exited
from a string of international accords and treaties. On face value, this is
akin to the allies being ‘stabbed in the back’ – gradually and even more
painfully! UN, NATO, WHO, Paris Accord – the list goes on. Bridging that trust
gap will not be easy – not only internationally but also nationally. Trump’s
nationalist and protectionist approach to ‘Make America Great Again’ has now
been ingrained in the people and with almost half the popular vote still with
Trump, Joe Biden will have a difficult time explaining to the American people
the principles of his foreign policy. Why democracy is preferred over
dictatorships? Why an international leader is more acceptable than a despot?
Why friends are needed in this globalised world? Why American prosperity at
home depends on US playing its part abroad? Why common ground and consensus
building is important within the comity of nations? This is an uphill task to
say the least! Then comes the slow reversal of isolationist tendencies of the
last four years. This will include engaging with organisations and countries
around the world and making sure that betrayed partners understand that America
is here to stay and will have their backs no matter what. Again, a tall order.
Second,
what to do about Iran? Since Trump walked away from the Joint Comprehensive
Plan of Action (JCPOA) agreed between Iran and a six-nation negotiating group,
the region is flailing in the wind. At the time of its pact, the JCPOA was a
simple and amenable deal – Iran restricts its nuclear programme in return for
removal of relevant sanctions and affordable connection with global markets. A
lot of water has flown under that particular bridge since then. Trump’s
arm-twisting approach and without a diplomatic exit to boot has sent Iran into
the arms of China and Russia. Iran has also reneged on its part of the bargain
in a tit for tat response to the Trump White House. So much so that Iran is
pointedly out of compliance with the JCPOA and is behaving even more
aggressively on all other fronts. In this scenario the most that Biden can do
is leverage any remaining goodwill in the region to creep back into the deal,
get back some or all of Iranian compliance and correct identified flaws in the
pact. The one thing in his favour? The huge stress the Iranian economy is under
because of various embargoes and the spread of COVID-19. This will provide Joe
Biden with a window of opportunity but that window will close rapidly along
with the erosion of any meagre amount of political capital left.
Biden will
inherit a lot of foreign policy challenges but there is no reason that his
years of experience on the US political scene cannot enable him to slowly but
surely wade through these troubled waters
Third,
reversal of Trump’s populist but highly short-sighted policy on China. For
Donald Trump, the trade war with China was a zero-sum game. It need not be
that! But this stride towards a realistic and effective policy on China has to
start with the acceptance that China is a major player in the word now and will
vie for influence as much as the US. Constructive mutual existence will need to
be Biden’s key US foreign policy towards China and will be underpinned by three
strategies. One, rollback of some of the aggressive trade posturing that was
the hallmark of the previous White House. Two, work all his diplomatic magic –
keeping the aforementioned trust deficit in mind – to form a united front with
America’s forlorn allies to manage the ever growing international impact of
China. Three, use China as a unifying factor at home in the US to mimic the oft
repeated slogan of ‘strong at home to be strong abroad’.
Fourth,
walk the tight rope between lending support to Saudi and pushing the envelope
on increased human rights in the kingdom. This challenge also extrapolates to
the wider Middle East including Israel. While Biden needs to laud the
liberalisation efforts by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, he will have to
tread carefully around extending further military and diplomatic support, with
especially treating the war in Yemen as a litmus test for the region. Further
normalisation of relations between Israel and other Middle East countries maybe
on the cards albeit difficult but Biden will also have to ensure that the
Palestinian concerns are also given credence – which unfortunately had been
almost completely ignored by the Trump White House.
Fifth,
bring more stability and equality domestically. The last four years have been
troublesome at best. It seems that the proclamation in the Declaration of
Independence, ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are
created equal’, has taken quite a hit! Partisan politics and partisan opinions
have been rampant. So much so that the notion of equality – a given in the US –
has come into question. Joe Biden will have his work cut out for him to
reconcile these extreme positions and become president for all Americans. But
he must, if the US wants to regain even an iota of moral authority lost during
the last presidential term.
These are
difficult times – a time for serious people and Trump’s fifteen minutes seem to
be over! Biden will inherit a lot of foreign policy challenges but there is no
reason that his years of experience on the US political scene cannot enable him
to slowly but surely wade through these troubled waters. He must, or else his
lengthy career as a public servant will only become a footnote in history!
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