Obama’s mysterious Asian policies seem more conspiratorial than what meets the eye. Is his current silence an omen? Sutanu Guru from India, Shahid Hussain from Pakistan, Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, Simon Shen from China, Iran Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and more investigate expected future US policies towards Asia in this issue of B&E
For the next three decades or more, Obama will have to accept that Asia will clearly be the engine of economic growth of the entire world, the way Europe was in the 19th century and United States in the 20th century. Brow beating and bullying this Asia will simply not work. Preaching will not work. Double standards will definitely not work. What will work is the engagement and dialogue that Obama promises.
But many former American presidents have promised a new relationship with Asia; almost none has delivered. In recent times, John F. Kennedy promised a new era, but ended up delivering Vietnam and the post-Vietnam horrors in Cambodia where a mad man called Pol Pot butchered about one third of his countrymen. Jimmy Carter promised peace, but uncorked the genie of jihad in Afghanistan that eventually led to 9/11. Once upon a time, America was deeply popular in West Asia, particularly after it vehemently opposed the 1956 invasion of Egypt by Britain and France. Now it is so widely hated on the Arab street that it is difficult to imagine how Obama can recover lost ground.
But the worst record of America has been in spreading genuine democracy. Perhaps the only successful example of the United States nurturing a democracy is in post Second World War Japan. Perhaps that’s why a majority of Japanese have a measure of goodwill for America despite the unspeakable horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the rest of Asia, the United States of America has repeatedly propped up dictatorships in the name of fighting Communism, as it has done in even Africa and Latin America. In Indonesia, it propped up the corrupt and brutal General Suharto. In Philippines, it propped up Ferdinand Marcos. In South Korea, it supported a series of dictators. In Pakistan, it forged a strategic alliance with the military that continues till date. In Iran, it supported and propped up the Shah of Iran till the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
For the next three decades or more, Obama will have to accept that Asia will clearly be the engine of economic growth of the entire world, the way Europe was in the 19th century and United States in the 20th century. Brow beating and bullying this Asia will simply not work. Preaching will not work. Double standards will definitely not work. What will work is the engagement and dialogue that Obama promises.
But many former American presidents have promised a new relationship with Asia; almost none has delivered. In recent times, John F. Kennedy promised a new era, but ended up delivering Vietnam and the post-Vietnam horrors in Cambodia where a mad man called Pol Pot butchered about one third of his countrymen. Jimmy Carter promised peace, but uncorked the genie of jihad in Afghanistan that eventually led to 9/11. Once upon a time, America was deeply popular in West Asia, particularly after it vehemently opposed the 1956 invasion of Egypt by Britain and France. Now it is so widely hated on the Arab street that it is difficult to imagine how Obama can recover lost ground.
But the worst record of America has been in spreading genuine democracy. Perhaps the only successful example of the United States nurturing a democracy is in post Second World War Japan. Perhaps that’s why a majority of Japanese have a measure of goodwill for America despite the unspeakable horrors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the rest of Asia, the United States of America has repeatedly propped up dictatorships in the name of fighting Communism, as it has done in even Africa and Latin America. In Indonesia, it propped up the corrupt and brutal General Suharto. In Philippines, it propped up Ferdinand Marcos. In South Korea, it supported a series of dictators. In Pakistan, it forged a strategic alliance with the military that continues till date. In Iran, it supported and propped up the Shah of Iran till the Islamic Revolution of 1979.
Source : IIPM Editorial, 2012.
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