Week in Review: America’s Future Foreign Policy, China Ignores The Hague, Kashmir Violence, and Much More

Week in Review: America’s Future Foreign Policy, China Ignores The Hague, Kashmir Violence, and Much More

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Week in Review: America’s Future Foreign Policy, China Ignores The Hague, Kashmir Violence, and Much More

All you need to know about everything in the news this week

July 23, 2016

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Highlights:

The future of NATO

  • United States presidential candidate Donald Trump said that under his leadership, the U.S. might not come to the aid of nato members if they were attacked by Russia.
  • nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg responded saying that “solidarity among allies is a key value for nato.”
  • nato members worry that such a foreign policy would embolden Russia. They’ll likely respond by beefing up their own European defense system.

    • Cleveland protests

  • Hundreds of protesters from the Ku Klux Klan, Black Lives Matter, and Westboro Baptist Church skirmished among themselves just a few blocks from the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, on Wednesday.
  • Urine was reportedly thrown in some of the clashes.
  • Another group, the Revolutionary Communist Party, demonstrated with banners showing pictures of black people killed by police and signs that read “America Was Never Great: We need to overthrow the system.”
  • Rioting and violence, not free speech, are becoming popular methods of dissent. It’s a path to revolution and war!

    • Clashes over Kashmir

  • Tensions between India and Pakistan over Kashmir have escalated into violent clashes that have killed 50 people and injured about 1,900 others.
  • Kashmir is a territory nestled between the two nations, and both sides have claimed ownership of it since 1947.
  • The Generational Dynamics forecasting agency said the outcome for the tensions appears bleak: “These protests are not coming from politicians. They’re growing organically from the population, and no politician can either cause them or stop them. Generational Dynamics predicts that Muslims and Hindus will have a full-scale war, re-fighting the 1947 Partition war that followed the partitioning of the Indian subcontinent into India and Pakistan.”

    • Turkey coup attempt: One week on

  • As the coup was winding down, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan called the uprising a “gift from God” because it “will be a reason to cleanse our army.”
  • One week on, Erdoğan has arrested thousands of military personnel, judges and prosecutors. He has suspended thousands more who work for the ministry of education and the Interior Ministry.
  • America’s Incirlik base—home to a few thousand United States personnel, drones and about 50 B-61 nuclear gravity bombs—has not had electricity for almost a week. debkafile reported that the base was essentially under Turkish lockdown.
  • Turkey has entered adarknew age!

    • China defies The Hague

  • China has expressed little regard to International Territorial Law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea when it defied last week’s ruling from The Hague over the South China Sea dispute.
  • The very day after the ruling, China landed military aircraft on its recently built Mischief Reef and Subi Reef. A day later, Chinese coast guard ships blocked a Philippine fishing boat from approaching the contested Scarborough Shoal. On the third day after the court ruling, China flew a nuclear-capable bomber over the Scarborough Shoal.
  • As Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry wrote in our July issue, China is steering the world toward war.

    • Iran’s hard-liners sidelining Rouhani

  • After securing a landmark nuclear deal, does Iran still need the “pragmatic” President Hassan Rouhani? An article from Reuters indicates that hard-liners in Iran are gaining more and more power and working to elbow out Rouhani in next year’s elections.
  • “The parlous state of Iran’s economy pushed Iran’s top leaders to accept Rouhani as the best option to resolve their nuclear dispute with the West,” the article said. “But Rouhani’s allies believe that those close to Khamenei no longer see Rouhani as useful.”

    • Other news:

  • The Syrian rebel group Nour el-Din al-Zinki, whose members beheaded a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, was part of an American-vetted alliance.
  • Two water fights in London escalated into chaos that left five people with stab wounds. The Times reported that police are braced for a repeat of 2011 London riots.
  • Chinese community groups in Victoria, Australia, are planning to protest the court ruling against China’s actions in the South China Sea.

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