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o "Hillary has worked very long and very hard over a long period of
time, and we owe her a major debt of gratitude for her service to
our country," he said of Hillary Clinton.
o Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin offered warm congratulations and
seized on the opportunity to urge Trump to help him get "US –
Russia relations out of their critical condition."
o EU leaders Donald Tusk and Jean-Claude Juncker invited him to
an EU-US summit at his "earliest convenience" to seek
reassurance about trans-Atlantic ties.
o Trump, spoke during the campaign of making US allies take a
bigger share of the Western security burden. "US leadership
is more important than ever.", the NATO head Jens
Stoltenberg warned him.
o Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reacted to Trump's election
by insisting that his country and the United States are
"unshakeable allies."
o One ally took heart from Trump's win. Israeli Education Minister
Naftali Bennett said it guaranteed that his state would never have
to accept the idea of an independent Palestine.
In speech to Arab and M uslim leaders, President rejects clash between the West and Islam
RIYADH:
U S President, Don Trump called on Middle Eastern leaders to a “crisis of
Islamic extremism”, emanating from the region casting the fight against
terrorism as a “battle between good and evil”, not a clash between the
West and Islam.
Mr. Trump’s address on Sunday [21 st] was the center piece of his two day
visit to Saudi Arabia, his first stop overseas as President. During a meeting
of more than fifty Arab and Muslim leaders, he sought to chart a new
course for America’s role in the region, one aimed squarely on rooting out
terrorism, with less focus on promoting human rights and democratic
reforms.
“We are not here to lecture we are not here to tell other people how
To live, what to do, who to be, or how to worship,” Mr. Trump said,
speaking in an ornate, multi-chandeliered room. “Instead we are here to
offer partnerships based on shared interests and values to pursue a better
future for us all.”
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CLIMATE CHANGE AGREEMENT TRUMPED: JUNE-2017
President Trump went on to say that the Paris climate accord was an
example of an agreement that disadvantaged the U. S. A. and was in fact
about other countries gaining a "financial advantage" over the U. S.
Supporters of the accord condemned Trump's move as an abdication
of American leadership, an international disgrace and a monumental
foreign policy blunder. His predecessor, Barack Obama, expressed regret
over the pullout from a deal that he was instrumental in brokering.
"We're getting out," Trump said at a ceremony in the White House
Rose Garden in which he decried the Paris accord's "draconian" financial
and economic burdens. He said American withdrawal "represents a
reassertion of American sovereignty."
Trump said the United States would begin negotiations either to re -
enter the Paris accord or to have a new agreement "on terms that are fair
to the United States, its businesses, its workers, its people and its
taxpayers."
US allies voiced dismay over Trump's move, and France, Germany
and Italy dismissed his suggestion that the global pact could be revised.
With Trump's action, the United States will walk away from nearly every
nation in the world on one of the pressing global issues of the 21st
century.
Trump said the United States would cease payments to the UN
Green Climate Fund, in which rich countries committed billions of dollars to
help developing countries deal with floods, droughts and other impacts
from climate change.
The United States was one of 195 nations that agreed to the accord
in Paris in December 2015. But Trump said the accord would "undermine
our economy, hamstring our workers, weaken our sovereignty, impose
unacceptable legal risk, and put us at a permanent disadvantage to the
other countries of the world."
"We don't want other leaders and other countries laughing at us
anymore." Trump added as he tapped into the "America First" was the
message he used as elected President last year. “Amarica first to
perdition” will be the consequence of the trumpeting.
Tesla Inc. Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said he will leave White
House advisory councils after Trump's move. "Climate change is real.
Leaving Paris is not good for America or the world," Musk said in a Twitter
post. General Electric CEO Jeff said he was disappointed, adding, "Climate
change is real. Industry must now lead and not depend on government."
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell applauded Trump "for
dealing yet another significant blow to the Obama administration's assault
on domestic energy production and jobs." The U N climate agreement has
two bedrocks, namely, responsibility for causing the problem and different
levels of capacity of countries to act. Trump entirely ignored these as salient
factors.
The U.S. exit makes more transparent the political stakes on climate
change in the U.S., and is more likely to force a national conversation in
that country on where its interests lie. Climate-concerned American citizens
get an offer or an opportunity to more productively engage and transform
U.S. domestic climate politics. Doing so would be far more productive, in
the longer term than perpetuating a trend of accommodating the U.S. and
dragging down global action.
The language of victimhood that is spoken by Trump needs to be
debated and challenged. Paris was a part of collective bargain after stiff
negotiation. In the Trump retelling, the past is irrelevant, and so are
differential levels of poverty and wealth. This has to be challenged.
The rejection of clean energy as promoting national interests is not
right. To prioritize coal and other fossil fuels has to stand the test of time and
empirical scrutiny. India could explicitly and formally make common cause
with countries such as China and the EU, which have reportedly planned an
alliance to lead implementation of the Paris Agreement.
Based on India’s recent track record of falling solar prices and declining
estimates of coal needs, India is also well placed to forcefully make the case
for the merits of a clean energy transition. The U.S. exit could help bring
back into focus the stakes: the technocratic and legalistic process of global
climate negotiations, for the poorest, galvanise greater action at multiple
scales, help bring together unlikely bedfellows and cement new alliances.
These would be appropriate responses to an otherwise destructive and
irresponsible act.
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May 28 SUNDAY
All the Presidents words
The words ’Islamic’ and ‘Islamist’ in the context of terrorism may suit
moderate or hardline views. U.S. President Don mixed them up in Riyadh
this week, though it was not deliberate. The written draft said Islamist,
which refers to religious aspects. The White House later clarified that the
President was too exhausted and this led to the mistake.
o In 2016, Don Trump then lost popular vote to Hillary Clinton by a large
margin of over three million votes and yet he won the election to
become the President.
o Trump has turned back the clock on environmental legislation. Even to
a President who has lost a popular vote, the American political system
gives the executive power.
o Putin said 755 U. S. diplomats must leave Russia and warned ties with
Washington could be gridlocked for a long time, in a move that followed
tough new American sanctions.
o The G20 meet highlighted the capacity of world leaders to work around
Don Trump. The gathering in July first week in Hamburg of the G20, a
group of 20 developed and developing countries was not unlike a large
family event: some catching up, some patching up, and that
unpredictable, rich uncle who needs to be managed and kept in good
humor.
o The G20 meetings in Germany reflected all this, either through the
dynamics between leaders or in the wording of official statements that
emerged from them.
o Even with Mr. Trump’s recalcitrance on trade and the environment, the
G20 managed to pull together a communique.
o U. S. policy currently runs against the global consensus and the other
nineteen countries recognize the Paris climate agreement. America is
not first this side of the Atlantic. America will be the Atlantis the lost,
thanks to the Trump!
o ‘No to’ to NATO, Climate change and trade led to protests with high
trumpet sound ‘Bump, Domp and Slump!’ All is not well with the world
and discontent has now flowed to Europe.
o The North’s only sole major ally China, accused by the United States of
o Moon & Trump agree to maxi pressure plus sanctions although the
door to dialogue is still slightly open and creaks.
Leaving church on Sunday, Trump appeared not to rule out any options,
responding to reporters asking whether he would attack North Korea by
telling them “we’ll see,” and suggesting on Twitter that negotiations with
Pyongyang were pointless.
US: North Korea leader Kim ‘Begging for War’
The US says North Korea leader Kim Jong Un is ‘begging for war’
following the rouge state’s most powerful nuclear test to date.
Ms. Haley said: “Despite our efforts the North Korea nuclear program is
more advanced and more dangerous than ever”
Iran's President Hassan Rouhani slammed his critics defending the political
achievements of a landmark 2015 nuclear deal and calling the US an oath
breaker.
Before Trump action on New Year eve:
With each passing day, the United States and Iran draw each other
deeper into conflict. So far, they have stopped short of war. But the
likelihood of an armed conflict increases with every additional
provocation, whether it is an attack on a civilian tanker ship or another
round of sanctions. Both countries, with their all-or-nothing strategies,
are to blame. President Donald Trump’s administration has pursued a
“maximum pressure” campaign against Iran built on suffocating
economic sanctions and a de facto oil and gas embargo. Iran has
pursued a maximum resistance strategy, escalating into attacks on
shipping lanes, downing a U.S. drone over the Persian Gulf, and
rejecting out of hand all opportunities for de-escalatory talks with
Washington. With both states unwilling to back down, the march toward
war continues.
3-1-2020
Iran's supreme leader appointed the deputy commander of the Quds Force,
Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani, as the replacement for Qassem Soleimani,
the former head of the elite force who was killed in a U.S. air strike on Friday,
state media reported.
This doesn’t mean war, it will not lead to war, and it doesn’t risk war. None of
that. It is war.
After nearly two years of conflict between the world's two dominant economic
powers, the United States and China signed a trade truce on Wednesday,
letting businesses around the globe breathe a sigh of relief.