Edwardsson: Indien vill inte likställas med Kina

Anders Edvardsson political scientist Welcome Thank you President Donald Trump has had the National Guard stationed in Washington D C for several weeks This has been strongly criticized There is also a political science issue here What does the criticism look like and why is it complicated to bring the military into their own cities Using the military for police duties is as you said sensitive in a democracy There are historical reasons for that Swedes and Ådalen 31 are a well-known example What happened in Ådalen led to a police action that was absolutely never I even think it was banned by law Even though it has changed in recent times if I have understood it correctly These are the images A government that deploys military troops people in military uniforms among civilians It is sensitive It is entirely legal in the US to use the National Guard in this way It happened a lot in the 60s especially during the riots Various presidents Eisenhower John F Kennedy Lyndon B Johnson and Nixon used the national guard for different purposes Among other things to force racist southern states to abolish racial segregation in their schools It happened around 1970 so all these really big and sometimes violent demonstrations took place In addition to the Vietnam War and other events there were a number of deaths This later caused subsequent presidents to back down on this issue They have only used troops to police such information a few times The older Bush in Los Angeles in the early 90s Trump during the BLM riots five years ago And now also Washington D C which has had huge problems with crime for a very long time Trump's decision is based on his belief that local authorities are not doing enough If they don't fight hard enough to stop murderers rapists and drug dealers The numbers have dropped significantly over this short month They were already on the decline earlier but from a very high level As far as I understand it's the protests that are still taking place against them here They are very much purely party-political Washington D C is undoubtedly the most democratically governed area in the entire United States I think over 90 percent vote democratically there So there is a lot of party politics here Men what you're saying also raises some constitutional concerns about whether this is good He has the right to do this according to the letter of the law It's going to expire in a week She has the right to do this for 30 days If he wants to continue he will have to get the congress on board with this We'll just have to see if it comes to that That will definitely be a big political circus in Congress Washington D C is the city in the U S with the highest murder rate That is the most murders per capita We have other cities that are also severely affected like Baltimore and Chicago Trump has offered the National Guard to these cities as well How is this received It's the same thing These big cities have all been run by Democrats for many decades Left-wing democrats even in most cases For example Chicago The current mayor is very far to the left Here come all the usual party political conflicts left and right Men Trump is really so terribly hated in these more extreme left circles They don't want anything to do with him He wants to send him in as he has done now in DC to do their job It would be politically embarrassing Besides having ideological convolutions about this They are very much like the Swedish left There were police and we should not lock people up It should be rehabilitation instead of arresting people and that sort of thing So this affects the entire political spectrum And that's precisely why it has become this way The mayor of Washington DC was then allowed this week to go out and actually thank the federal government Crime has indeed dropped quite radically since this operation was launched What should also be mentioned is that the National Government initially did not have any weapons at all But a very large presence She is mainly there so to speak as a backup for other more purely federal agencies I'm with the ICE and the federal drug police and stuff like that They've done a lot of other things too It was a small matter last week Someone took a photo of National Guard soldiers raking leaves in a park that didn't look especially good So they hang so many different things here The US debt has been a hot topic The past year Elizabeth Svansson our finance minister is strongly critical It has affected the Swedish economy It is based on a trade war with China The USA wants production to return What has happened recently is that high tariffs have also been introduced against India Which has met with global criticism What are the consequences This is interesting from many different perspectives If we start with the tariffs themselves They are falling into the same pattern as the other trade wars Against China against the EU This question has already been resolved China is just such an up-and-coming Britain They have had good relations with the West and the USA for a very long time In particular there was a very good personal relationship between Trump and Modi The Indian prime minister But this goes beyond the personal obviously India considered it well to place us in the same shame bin as China That didn't fit The Indian prime minister has chosen to attend a summit yesterday With both Putin and Xi from China So this is just posturing This isn't over yet This does not mean that India has permanently taken Russia's and China's side It's when Trump takes a stance and makes controversial statements You have to see this as a bargaining chip too We'll just have to see where it ends up If India really wanted to paint itself in the same corner as Putin and the Chinese I am comfortable with India's quite long democratic and pro-Western history But we will have to see India has become increasingly entangled with China in recent years During the pandemic years there was also competitive vaccine diplomacy India and China one side tried to attract allies by offering vaccines The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the Indo-Pacific region Tensions between China and India have increased There is a border conflict in northern India Where China has territorial claims and where confrontations occur quite often How can India balance such a relationship with China How likely is it that they would actually diversify to other countries As I just said I personally don't think India will permanently take China's side This conflict goes back a long way in time As you say it's direct border conflicts but also historical divisions ideological differences cultural oppositions and so on China's treatment of the Buddhist minority in Tibet is also an old sore spot As they say I don't see why the Indian prime minister chose to hold hands with both Putin and Kiev I see it primarily as a serious but still only a signal from India to China You can't treat us like China or Russia if you want to do business with us Whether right or wrong they receive a bit of consideration from a range of different circumstances The trade war between the US and China is essentially about the US wanting to bring its production back home and become as independent from China as possible India is emerging as an alternative for production Globally India and China are also competing for places to outsource production to What does this mean for trade relations in the short term and long term would you say with India From the U S perspective it doesn't make much difference whether things are made in China or India What Trump wants to achieve is as you say bringing back a lot of production for both direct government financial reasons job creation but also the bigger picture especially after COVID-19 partly self-sufficiency The whole world was almost caught in the grip of China and other Asian countries when it came to basic things like hospitals masks more advanced hospital equipment and much more This is on the most extreme level that can be imagined for countries like the USA and the EU How dependent should we allow ourselves to be on other countries especially when other countries like China are a strict dictatorship The more you think about it the better It's just going back to that centuries-old liberal idea that if people just trade with each other they will become friends and stop fighting What do such summits mean and what does this type of meeting mean for the USA and the world order It's all about optics these days in politics What does this look like What signals is this sending And so on Just showing up in front of cameras and shaking hands as they say is a signal This alternative to the Western American world order must be deepened if it is to become anything it must be deepened both economically militarily and politically It's just the beginning of this process There has been some talk over the past 5 to 10 years about possibly trying to create an alternative world currency to the dollar and things like that There has been a lot of talk and little actual work so far at least So now we'll see this is going to take decades for a new world order to grow and take shape so to speak And the US hasn't given up and the EU hasn't given up either to be the two leading nodes They are still in their own category economically Especially the US which is a third richer than the EU and then you have the EU which is certainly twice as rich or more compared to Russia and China Brazil and India and so on This is relatively young not China anymore but India Brazil these are literally young nations in demographic terms They have very young people And India also has a quite decent education system In the 1500s and up until very recently it wasn't that the rest of the world became poorer it was that the Western world suddenly became incredibly much richer It is only in the last two or three decades that some of these countries through the introduction of capitalism and other measures have begun to catch up due to political cultural structural and institutional reasons Most people now understand that the West did not become rich because of colonialism or anything like that If anything colonialism was so costly that most countries were glad to be rid of it by the 1900s They still exist and we all know how politics works When China has problems when India has problems when Brazil has problems that's exactly when they look for scapegoats And that still exists in the rhetoric in many places too An aging population and so on means that the West is no longer growing as fast as it once did Now it's the turn of other regions so to speak to go through the same sprint that the West underwent in the 1800s and 1900s So it balances out and it's hard for many Westerners to truly accept that weren't that special after all This is happening on so many levels that we've only seen the beginning of this development Thanks to all the students and people who have watched 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