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Aff – AT Indian Soft Power NBSoft power is irrelevant -- India won’t use it for international leverage.Gulf News, 2009[“Looking to India for Leadership,” 10-8, LexisNexis] The world wants more from India than it seems ready to give at present. India is one of the three states which will dominate the world for the next century at least, along with China and the United States. It has a population of 1.2 billion, an increasingly liberal business scene giving it growing economic strength, and solid democratic values which allow it to take a balanced and stable view of developments. It has a track record second to none among the world's major states in its commitment to multilateral action. It has been a strong supporter of the United Nations with its peacekeeping forces, initiatives like the Millennium Development Goals, and more important than these specific points, India is committed to the cooperative spirit of the United Nations. Yet India does not offer the powerful lead in guiding the world's foreign policy councils that its size and talents would indicate it should. It is almost invisible at a national policy engagement level, since it merges its foreign policy efforts into the interwoven multilateral organisations that form the system that allows the world's nation states to work together on many fronts, such as the United Nations, the Conference on Climate Change, and the World Trade Organisation. But outside these processes, India does not offer many issues in which it takes its place as a stand-alone power, and offer an Indian-led initiative. Partly this is because India is so vast that it tends to look inward to its own affairs, rather than outwards to what the rest of the world is thinking. Within its huge population, India has a huge variety of peoples, and social issues, so that it is more concerned with solving its own problems than taking a lead on international initiatives. India's humanitarian and tolerant core values are what is needed to find answers for most of the major global issues, which are not about nation-state politics or power blocs jostling for influence. Today's really vital issues are trans-national and are often more social or economic. They include stopping climate change, dealing with nuclear proliferation, stopping human trafficking and the drugs trade, worldwide health care and education, and taking steps to avoid serious clean water shortages. This absence of Indian engagement was strongly denied this week in Dubai by Sashi Tharoor, the new Indian Minister of State for External Affairs, who previously was a very experienced UN diplomat who ended his almost 30 year spell at the UN as Under-Secretary General. When asked why the regional superpower was invisible in the Gulf and did not take a more dynamic role in world affairs, he first objected to the term super-power saying that India did not see itself as a "power" in those terms, and also vigorously stood up for India's record in international affairs in many forums, while also pointing specifically to its troop commitments in peacekeeping efforts over many decades as one example of putting its resources behind its rhetoric. Tharoor also described how the next few months hold important stages in different rounds of negotiations in several different global forums. He spoke of the deadlock in the Doha Round of talks on free trade, and the approaching summit in Copenhagen on climate change, and in both cases he said that "India wants to be part of the solution to these important questions, not part of the problem". This attitude of constructive engagement based on principles, is how he saw India's foreign policy offering leadership. And while for many decades India has tended to talk of its relations with the Arab Gulf states in terms of trade and labour relations, and has not really got involved in the state-to-state issues that the Gulf nations are pursuing, Tharoor said this was the wrong impression. He spoke of wider engagement, and also pointed out how India had worked hard to support the UAE's successful bid to host the International Renewable Energy Agency, Irena, working with the UAE to help achieve this result. But the Gulf is looking for more from India. Although the peace process in Palestine is already cluttered with international mediators, India's calm and humanitarian style could do a lot of good in that vexed and intractable area. The major issue in today's Gulf is the spread of Iran's influence, both through its alleged nuclear programme but also through its support for regional groups, and India could speak up more on this vital Gulf and Middle East issue. Looking closer to home, the Gulf is active in supporting the Nato mission in Afghanistan which it sees as a vital area of concern. But the Nato mission is failing, and open Indian support for an effective solution would be very helpful to Afghan, regional and Gulf interests. All right-thinking leadership in the rest of the world will be delighted to see India's humanitarian style of leadership become a more dominant force in world politics. ***CHINA ARMS SALES CP***1NCCP Text: The United States federal government should stop all it’s arms sales to Taiwan.Arms sales to Taiwan ruin recovering China relations -- CP boosts the overall relationship.Reuters, 11 (Reuters News, 5/7/11, “China says U.S. must stop Taiwan arms sales,” JPL) (Reuters) - The United States will put improved relations with Beijing at risk if it does not stop selling arms to Taiwan, China's Foreign Minister said on Monday. The world's two biggest economies have sought to steady ties after a year that exposed strains over human rights, Taiwan, Tibet and the gaping U.S. trade deficit with China. Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the White House in January. "The atmosphere at the moment in Sino-U.S. relations is good," Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told a news conference on the sidelines of the ongoing meeting of China's parliament. Vice President Joe Biden will visit China in the middle of this year, after which Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping will go the United States at "an appropriate time", Yang said. "Of course, it is an objective reality that China and the United States have some differences or even friction over some issues," he added. "What's important is to properly handle these differences on the basis of mutual respect." Early last year, Beijing reacted with fury to the Obama administration plans for a new round of weapons sales to Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China deems an illegitimate breakaway province, threatening to sanction the U.S. companies involved. "We urge the United States to ... stop selling arms to Taiwan and take concrete actions to support the peaceful development of cross-Strait relations. This is very important in upholding the overall interests of China-U.S. relations," Yang said. Directory: files files -> Answer True False 2 points Question 2 files -> Integer programming and game theory files -> 4 Integer Programming files -> Bpa vehicle Window Repair Scenario #1 task: Procure vehicle window relacement. 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