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Wednesday 13 to 19 September, 2017 Sonakshi Sinha urges fans1 A NUWAY MEDIA GROUP PUBLICATION to clean Mumbai beaches STORY ON page 31 Voice of South Asian Community Since March 2002 Vol. 14 Issue 48 Wednesday 13 to 19 September, 2017, 2017 $1 www.thesouthasian.info Laying BRICS On China Road Journalist Gauri Lankesh’s killing Modi’s decision to attend the BRICS Summit helped India ranks 136 out of 180 countries in press freedom defuse Doklam. It can be used as a platform for peace. India was ranked a lowly 136 among 180 countries in the latest world press freedom rankings released in April with the dismal performance blamed on “Modi’s nationalism” and growing “self-censorship” in the mainstream media. The murder of senior nationalism” and growing “self- Facebook is gearing Who is Hardeep Singh Puri? journalist and editor Gauri censorship” in the mainstream Hardeep Singh Puri: In his four-decade Lankesh in her home in media. India slipped three places up to make money Bengaluru has brought the focus as compared to the year before. from WhatsApp career in diplomacy, he served critical back on the perilous conditions India was ranked just three roles as India's ambassador to Brazil journalists in India work in. India places above Pakistan and was Facebook Inc is and the United Kingdom, and Perma- was ranked a lowly 136 among one notch below violence-torn gearing up to make money from 180 countries in the latest world Palestine. India’s neighbours WhatsApp, the messaging nent Representative of India to Geneva press freedom rankings released Bhutan and Nepal were placed service used by more than a Hardeep Singh Puri, 65, a billion people every day, the in April with the dismal at 84th and 100th rank, 1974-batch Indian Foreign Ser- Wall Street Journal reported on performance blamed on “Modi’s respectively. (Contd on page 22) Tuesday. WhatsApp will be vice officer is considered to have testing new features to make it been close to L K Advani during How We Killed Expertise easier for people to NDA-I. Puri is considered as one communicate with businesses of the top diplomats of India and Average Americans have never much liked eggheads. That’s they want to reach on has served as India’s Permanent dian delegation to the UNSC, and not a bad thing in itself: Americans are a skeptical but level-headed WhatsApp, the messaging Representative to the United Na- served as the chairman of the people—or were until recently—whose common sense and ingenuity allowed their nation to achieve great heights in science, diplomacy service said on a blog post. tions from 2009 to 2013 and was Counter-Terrorism Committee of and the arts, while never displacing the ordinary voter as the deciding “We’re building and the vice president of the Interna- the UN and president of the UNSC. voice in affairs of state. But recently skepticism has curdled into testing new tools via a free tional Peace Institute, New York. In his four-decade career in di- WhatsApp Business app for something more toxic, even dangerous. Donald Trump explicitly Currently, he holds the post of plomacy, he served critical roles small companies and an campaigned against experts, calling them “terrible” and saying he president and chairman of think- as India’s ambassador to Brazil enterprise solution for bigger didn’t need them. As president, he seems determined to prove that tank Research and Information companies operating at a large and the United Kingdom, and Per- experts are unnecessary to the running of a superpower—winging scale (Contd on page 23) System for Developing Countries manent Representative of India to important conversations with foreign leaders, issuing an executive (RIS). He is also the head of In- Geneva. (Contd on page 23) order without advice from (Contd on page 23) Wednesday 13 to 19 September, 2017 2 Apple, Google, Microsoft vow to fight for employees hit by Trump’s latest move HOUSTON: US tech giants, (DACA), a move likely to impact pledged in a note to employees deport any one of them, we will act quickly,” Nadella tweeted. including Apple, Google and 8 lakh undocumented workers to offer any employees provide and pay for their legal Facebook CEO Mark Microsoft, have pledged to including more than 7,000 affected by the change the counsel,” Smith wrote, of the 39 Zuckerberg, meanwhile, spoke stand by their employees after Indian-Americans. Microsoft “support they need, including Dreamers who work at out against the decision to the Trump administration and Apple are offering the most the advice of immigration Microsoft. He said the company rescind DACA and encouraged scrapped an amnesty full-throated defence of experts.” Apple will “fight” for would also seek to intervene in users to call Congress to support programme that granted work “Dreamers” — undocumented its Dreamers, Cook tweeted. “If those cases. “Dreamers make a measure that would enact the permits to immigrants who individuals who have been in the Congress fails to act, our our country & communities DACA program—created by an arrived in the country illegally US since they were young and company will exercise its legal stronger. We stand for diversity executive order by then- as children+ . US President registered with the federal rights properly to help protect and economic opportunity for President Obama —into law. Donald Trump on Tuesday government to get work our employees,” Microsoft everyone. Legislation to protect Google’s India born CEO Sundar scrapped an Obama-era permits. Apple CEO Tim Cook president and chief legal officer 800,000 #Dreamers is an Pichai took to Twitter to call on programme known as Deferred condemned the Trump Brad Smith wrote in a blog post. economic & humanitarian Congress to act to defend the Action for Children Arrival administration’s decision and “If the government seeks to imperative. Congress needs to DACA. Trump’s withdrawal of US immigration policy for children is short sighted Donald Trump has suspended the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)programme which saves 800,000 migrants who arrived in the US as undocumented children from being deported 800,000 migrants who arrived in US has a deeply embedded law. Trump claims he is not the US as undocumented culture of migration and its laws, opposed to DACA, he just wants children from, effectively, being judicial precedents and much of the US Congress to convert it deported. This has been a its political establishment – into a piece of legislation. Strict particularly poignant issue Republican and Democrats – are constitutionalists would argue because many of these biased in favour of an open the president is right to demand migrants came to the US so door policy. Various Trump- an ad hoc policy be made into young – the average age of backed anti-immigration actions law. It is obvious the legal arrival is six – that they know no such as the select ban on argument is little more than a fig other country. The vast majority Muslim migrants and leaf for the US president. So far, of them are Latinos though restrictions on H-1B visas have it seems unlikely Republican and about 7000 are believed to be run into legislative and judicial Democrat legislators would join Immigration is the four-letter being seen by United States of Indian origin. Mr Trump was resistance. But they resonate hands to reverse Mr Trump’s world of contemporary politics President Donald Trump as the elected on a platform that with his white working class action. But if they did so, it around the world. It resulted in means to resuscitate his called for the deportation of base so he has persisted. would be a small but symbolic step Brexit, roils central Europe drooping poll ratings. Mr Trump illegal migrants and restrictions Shutting down DACA is different towards reversing the present today, will be a subtext of Prime has suspended the Deferred on immigration as a whole. from the earlier actions. Barack global scepticism about what are Minister Narendra Modi’s Action for Childhood Arrivals Implementation of this Obama initiated the programme the otherwise self-evident benefits present visit to Myanmar and is (DACA)programme which saves platform has not been easy. The but was never able to make it of human mobility. Trump’s ‘China First’ option in NorthTrump Korea ignores will Make Bannon China Great turmoil Again in F Although a Chinese military intervention in North Korea is unlikely, it’s Beijing’s best opportunity to achieve greater strategic parity with the US in the region Most pundits agree that the least planners. In Trumpian terms, Japan and South Korea have guarantee in exchange for one. China’s strategic gains bad way to deal with North this is a ‘China First’ option that remained close allies of the curtailing its nuclear programme, from a successful military Korea’s nuclear sabre rattling is could help ‘Make China Great United States during the six the only country capable of intervention would include not a continued combination of tight Again’. decades since then, hosting US providing it is China. No only control of what happens on containment and aggressive Any military intervention, bases and sheltering under US American promise would remain the Korean Peninsula, where it diplomacy. Fewer, however, Chinese or otherwise, would nuclear protection, China and credible beyond the term of the presumably would be able to have recognised that the least carry huge risks. But before North Korea have drifted ever president who gave it, if even establish military bases, but bad military option — the one dwelling on them, consider what further apart. that long. So if China were to also regional gratitude for implied by US President Donald a successful Chinese As a result, China has little combine threats of invasion with having prevented a catastrophic Trump’s insistence that China intervention would achieve.