Last December, President Biden Held the Summit for Democracy and Asked to Renew Democracy Around the World, Four Months Later, in April Democracy Ends in Pakistan, How Will President Biden Define Renewing Democracy Around the World?

Last December, President Biden Held the Summit for Democracy and Asked to Renew Democracy Around the World, Four Months Later, in April Democracy Ends in Pakistan, How Will President Biden Define Renewing Democracy Around the World?

 

With the new Congress coming in January, the people of Pakistan are asking the new Congress to restore democracy and the rule of law in Pakistan, hold snap elections, and exonerate corrupt leaders through a legal process.

Mujeeb Khan  

 

PDM is an alliance of corrupt leaders from thirteen political parties

 The way democracy is a joke in Pakistan, the supremacy of law has scattered. The corrupt and criminal leaders dominate the Islamic State of Pakistan. In two by-elections, the ruling government suffered a humiliating defeat, the people rejected them Overwhelmingly. Tehreek-e-Insaaf’s long march against the government is proof of the people’s lack of support for the government. Calling Shahbaz Sharif, the Prime Minister of Pakistan is an insult to Pakistan. The British newspaper Daily Mail has confirmed its report by the British court that the British government financial aid for the victims of the earthquake in Pakistan in 2012 was deposited by the then chief minister of Punjab Shahbaz Sharif in his personal account. Shahbaz Sharif had called the Daily Mail report lie and filed a defamation case against the newspaper in a British court. Shahbaz Sharif failed to prove his case, after which the UK court judge ordered Shahbaz Sharif to pay a fine of thousands of pounds. America and Europe had a cold reaction to it, no one in the western media, except the British media, gave it importance. Criminals corrupt are running rampant in power. These western countries lecture the Islamic world on their high moral and democratic values. They criticize Islamic countries on human rights, rule of law, and corruption. But the tragedy is that undemocratic, ruthless, most corrupt leaders in the Islamic world are the best allies of America and the West. Those who are in power in the so-called democracy in Pakistan are America’s Poodles. The military government used to be puppets of America. But in the Islamic world, a systematic character assassination campaign starts against the leaders who are not the poodles of America and the West. In a democracy, there should not be a question of whether a party or a leader is pro or anti-America. In a democracy, people choose how much he is pro-people, and what he wants to do for the country.

  The Obama-Biden administration spent $500 million of American taxpayers’ money to transform the Middle East into freedom and democracy, democracy came for the first time in the history of Egypt. The government that came to Egypt because of democracy was not liked by America’s undemocratic close allies. Democracy died in Egypt prematurely. Now the Biden-Kamala Harris administration has announced the renewing democracy around the world. On December 9-10, 2021, President Biden hosted the first-ever Conference for Democracy virtually, and in December of this year, he asked for an in-person conference for Democracy. Four months after the First Conference for Democracy, in the Biden-Kamala Harris administration, at 2a.m. in Pakistan, Army Chief General Bajwa and Supreme Court Judges decided to end the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Imran Khan and provided an opportunity for most corrupt leaders of thirteen parties to seize power. Sixty percent of these leaders were on bail, and their corruption cases were before the courts. And they become the new rulers of Pakistan. Who helped them to seize power? Biden-Kamala administration was silent on the casualty of an elected democratic government in Pakistan. Senator Chuck Schumer said on the change of government in Pakistan that “Imran Khan was an anti-America.” This anti-America and pro-America was a new politics in a democracy. Therefore, Senator gave priority to the most corrupt leaders over the government of an honest, sincere, and committed leader. Pakistan’s democratic system has destabilized under the Biden-Kamala administration. instead of helping to make the democratic system more transparent, it has helped hand it over to the most corrupt leaders. The person of interest in plotting a conspiracy against democracy in Pakistan is assistant Secretary of State David Lu.

 The new Congress is coming in January. The people of Pakistan will expect the new Congress to restore democracy and the rule of law in Pakistan, and the leaders who have ended their corruption cases by making new laws of their choice. These leaders should ask to prove themselves innocent by going through the legal process. Congress should press for immediate elections in Pakistan through a binding resolution.      

         

China, From the Trade War to the Strategic Enemy, is Now Back to a Significant Trading Partner

China, From the Trade War to the Strategic Enemy, is Now Back to a Significant Trading Partner

Mujeeb Khan  

 

President Xi -President Biden meeting ahead of G20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia

President Trump Welcomes Chinese President Xi to Mar- a- Lago

Chinese Containers at Seattle Ports

  In the 20th century, it was said that religion should be kept separate from politics. In the 21st century, business leaders insist that political leaders separate business from politics. The politics of religion was exploited in the Cold War. The final decisive war of the Cold War took place on Islamic jihad in Afghanistan, and then as a result of Islamic terrorism, it was agreed that religion should be kept separate from politics. China is a business powerhouse. Containing China through the politics of strategic adversary is harming businesses. China is like Amazon. Amazon has quickly become the giant retail store of the world. But Walmart, Cosco, and other big retailers have not started a trade war against Amazon. They all focus on promoting business and business profits. What are the disadvantages of the US from China? China as a Strategic adversary can cause major economic and trade war losses.

  President Donald Trump was not an experienced politician but an experienced businessman. It was surprising that President Trump started a trade war against China. Businessmen do not believe in trade wars, because a business war means destroying each other’s businesses. After becoming president, Donald Trump first invited Chinese President Xi Jinping to Mar-a-Lago. Florida. A grand banquet was given in honor of President Xi. President Trump was impressed by President Xi in this first meeting. President Trump called President Xi my friend. The trade war was the brainchild of Peter Navarro, assistant to President Trump’s director of trade and manufacturing policy for China.

 All 50 US states traded with China. US retailers and manufacturers depended on China; they were making billions of dollars from trade with China. Their profit markup was 300% to 500%. In the 1990s, Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji gave a question-and-answer session to students at Washington State University in response to a student’s question that China was making a lot of money from the United States. Prime Minister Zhu Rongji said, “It costs $10 to make Nike shoes in China, including materials and labor, and we make only 2 dollars, and in Chicago, Nike shoes are sold for 280 dollars. Now, who is making the money, your American company or China? They were making billions of dollars from trade with China. These facts were in front of every administration, but nevertheless, the trade war was beyond reason.

 This is not a trade war; the real trade war was between the countries of the North and the South. When the industrialized countries of the North did not pay a fair price for raw materials of the countries of the South, they exploited their raw materials. They used to make goods from their materials and then sell them at a high price. And it was an exploitative trade. After losing the war with the Taliban, the US had to make an enemy of a giant country with a large population, and that was China. China was made an enemy by the trade war. As a result of US sanctions against Chinese companies, thousands of Chinese were unemployed. While China saved the middle class from collapsing during the 2008 US recession. There is a public interest in trade and business. The trade war that President Trump started with China was not in the interests of the people. It was in the interests of the Pentagon, the national security establishment. In order to keep the tension in the world, the arms industry should be prosperous. The defense budget should not be cut but increased. But the problem is that America’s militarism policies are becoming unpopular with the American people. Most of the American people do not support the Biden administration’s Ukraine policy. The billion dollars that were being spent on the Afghan war are now being spent on Ukraine. What would have been spent on the American people is now being spent on saving Ukraine. As President Biden has said that 18 veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars commit suicide every day and are involved in various shooting incidents in the United States. They are suffering from mental and psychological diseases due to spending twenty-two years on the front of wars. Wars are not solving as many problems as they are creating more problems. And China is appraising the situation with satisfaction. China knows that its market is vital for the US and Europe.

  President Trump was a businessman, and he knew that capital goes where business goes. President Trump was asking American companies to leave China and come back to America. Will there be a businessman and company in the world who will leave a $100 billion business and come to America to do business for $50 billion dollar? The chairmen of major US financial institutions, chief executives of companies, and retailers had urged President Biden to settle matters with China and separate politics from business. A three-hour meeting between President Biden and President Xi in Bali, Indonesia, appears to have made progress in settling matters. President Xi had a smile on his face.  

            

   

     

Elections in America: Are the Post-Pandemic Elections Fair?

Elections in America: Are the Post-Pandemic Elections Fair?

Mujeeb Khan

1.2million mail votings in Florida, two weeks before midterm elections

 

  We fought for democracy in our countries and now it looks like we must fight to save democracy in America. During the mid-term elections, we used to get these messages on our mobile phones saying “everything- our very democracy is on the line, are you casting your vote?” Fair elections promote strong democracy. Surprisingly, democracy was never in danger in America during the Cold War, but when the Cold War does not exist, there will be more threats to democracy in America. Why? In the opinion of many Americans, the midterm elections were no different from the 2020 presidential election. There are reservations about the election in the minds of the people. People are afraid to say the word “rigged election” because they will be associated with the incident of January 6. However, the people are not satisfied with the way the election is being conducted. It took 10 days to decide who would have the majority in Congress. Within 72 hours of the election, Democrats held 204 seats in Congress, and Republicans held 211 seats. Republicans needed 7 seats for a majority in Congress while Democrats needed 14 seats for a majority. Democrats have a one-vote lead in the Senate. A run-off election for one Georgia Senate seat will be held on December 6. California’s Congressional results are not out yet. It has been 10 days since the election and the counting of votes is going on. A few hours after voting closed in California’s 2020 presidential election, CNN reported that 55electorate votes had gone to Biden. It is the sixth day of voting, and the counting of votes was going on in Arizona, Nevada, Colorado, Alaska, Georgia, and Pennsylvania.

  America is the world’s only democratic superpower. It is a high-tech advanced country. It is fully capable of transporting its weapons from one corner of the world to another in a matter of hours. But America is slow to count its votes. It is a high risk for Congress to be controlled by Republicans. The Speaker is the third in line, that is, if something happens to the President, the Vice President will be the President, and if something happens to the Vice President, then the Speaker will be the President, and the Speaker is a Republican. The gap has narrowed, but it is not possible for Democrats to control Congress. This method of conducting the election gives rise to the illusion of fair elections in the minds of the American people. In the 2020 presidential election due to covid-19, early voting, mail-in voting, and drive-by ballot had created a rig election problem. Mailmen were delivering bags full of votes even on the second, third, fourth, or fifth day after voting ended. This time there were 6 million early votes, the midterm elections are no different than the 2020 presidential election.

  Covid-19 is now over, business life is back to normal, and elections should be held like pre-Covid-19. The presidential election of Carter, Reagan, Bush Sr., and Bill Clinton, before them Kennedy and Nixon, and Trump’s had the first undisputed election. Elections started on November4 at 7 am in 50 states and ended at 8 pm., and the results were announced, and the election results of 50 states were completed by midnight. The next day's post-elections were the topic.

  Now, if as a result of Covid-19, the procedure of conducting elections is made permanent, it will be against the democratic rights of the people. There are flows in this procedure of conducting elections, this creates the impression that a candidate who is perceived as weird and strange will be prevented from being elected.      

In Latin America, When People Said Yankee Go Home, Gone Those Days with The Wind When You Imposed Dictators Upon Us, Now We Elect Our Leaders, Great Come Back Lula da Silva, President Brazil

In Latin America, When People Said Yankee Go Home, Gone Those Days with The Wind When You Imposed Dictators Upon Us, Now We Elect Our Leaders, Great Come Back Lula da Silva, President Brazil

Mujeeb Khan

Lula da Silva: I want to clear my name to help rebuild Brazil's Trust in the government

  Democracy, political process, and economy are moving in the right direction in Latin America, the region of developing countries. There is political stability, democracy is getting stronger, and the economy is booming. After the end of the cold war, left-wing governments came to power in Latin America, which were fighting against American imperialism in the Cold War. Right-wing iron-fisted military dictators were America’s proxies’ rulers. Fifty years of the Cold War in Latin America killed many times more people than in World War II. It was not the cold war of the Latin people. It was a war to deprive them of freedom, to keep them behind in economic development. After the end of the Cold War, it was a reasonable consensus among the leaders of Latin America that no military rule would be supported in any country, and America will not be allowed to interfere in the internal politics of Latin countries. The governments of the Latin countries had decided to keep their natural resources under their control. Coffee, coca, and other minerals prices went up, before that, developed countries used to buy their natural resources cheaply. Venezuela was the fifth-largest oil-producing country and was ahead in economic development. While Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Panama, and some other countries made economic progress, poverty was also reduced. Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez provided financial support to Cuba. President Chavez was a Nationalist and Socialist. He did not like President George Bush, a strong critic of President Bush on the regime change attack in Iraq. Post-Cold War Venezuela was the first country in Latin America in which a CIA- assisted Venezuelan army general overthrew the government of President Hugo Chavez during the Bush-Cheney administration and had recognized immediately the military government. But the Organization of Latin Nations condemned the Bush administration’s decision. And demanded that the Hugo Chavez government be restored immediately. The military general that America had brought to power had to flee the country. President Hugo Chavez returned to his presidential palace. Latin American leaders rejected US intervention in their region. The US foreign policy establishment still has a Cold War mindset. And they believe that the governments in these countries are not in line with the interest of the United States, so they should be removed from power.

  The Trump administration once again tried to change the government in Venezuela. President Nicolas Maduro was the president. The plan was that President Trump declared Maduro’s opponent, Juan Guido, as the legitimate president of Venezuela. And invited Juan Guido to a meeting at the White House. While President Maduro said that he has been re-elected as president. The general impression about Guido was that the CIA was on his back. President Trump imposed economic sanctions on the Maduro government. Latin American countries did not follow President Trump’s decision, only a few right-wing governments of the Cold War era leaders supported Trump’s decision. Venezuela’s neighbor Colombia was among them. President Maduro broke diplomatic ties with Colombia. President Trump sent the fleet to Caracas to invade Venezuela and remove President Maduro from power. But Latin leaders strongly opposed any action against Venezuela. They jointly thwarted every US attempt to derail the political and democratic process in their region. Nicolas Maduro is still the president of Venezuela. Peace in Venezuela is the stability of the region and peace in the region is the stability of Venezuela. The people of Venezuela have faith in a better economic future. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken visited Latin countries last month to drum up support against China and Russia. Obviously, he failed in this goal. Latin leaders urged Secretary of State Blinken to lift the embargo on Cuba.

  America’s policymakers do not like leaders in developing countries who are honest, sincere to their people, and committed to their wellbeing, and the more corrupt the leader, the closer the US ally. Fidel Castro was very honest, sincere, and committed to his people. He had never stolen from the national treasury in his life. He had a 1956’s car was also official. Castro did not even have personal property. He lived a very simple life which was taught by Prophet Mohammad Salem. In Castro’s Cuba, doctors were like an industry. Cuban doctors used to go to African and Latin American countries to treat people in hospitals. Castro dedicated his life to the people and worked for the people till the end. He never extended a hand to anyone seventy years in America’s strict embargo, he kept its people alive with dignity.

  In Pakistan, Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s family has devoted their lives to Islam, but in Pakistan, no one has Islam in their life.