{"id":90403,"date":"2019-08-02T20:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T03:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/?p=90403"},"modified":"2019-08-02T20:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-03T03:28:17","slug":"we-need-unity-and-diplomacy-to-counter-war-and-climate-change-tulsi-gabbard-briefs-ethnic-media-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siliconeer.com\/current\/we-need-unity-and-diplomacy-to-counter-war-and-climate-change-tulsi-gabbard-briefs-ethnic-media-3\/","title":{"rendered":"We Need Unity and Diplomacy to Counter War and Climate Change: Tulsi Gabbard Briefs Ethnic Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Above):<\/strong> Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard, congresswoman from Hawai\u2019i. (EMS)<\/em><\/p>\n

Second in a series of ethnic media conversations with the 2020 presidential candidates<\/strong><\/p>\n

In a teleconference with members of the ethnic press from across the country on Friday, Aug. 2, Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard, congresswoman from Hawai\u2019i, introduced herself as a product of the country\u2019s only majority-minority state, then commented that it took her visits to the mainland to reveal the very different ways people of color are sometimes seen and treated in the United States.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s very different from the spirit of \u201cAloha\u201d that prevails in her home state, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur current president is dividing our country and undermining core principles of who we are as Americans\u2026\u201d she said. \u201cWe are strongest when we stand united.\u201d<\/p>\n

Call moderator Jaya Padmanabhan of India Currents asked how she planned \u201cto rise above\u201d such divisiveness and Gabbard responded that the challenge is \u201cstaying focused on why we are here\u201d and \u201cunderstanding what unites us as we continue to fight the good fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leading off the ethnic media\u2019s questions in the hour-long event, Henrietta Burroughs of East Palo Alto Today<\/em> referred to the congresswoman\u2019s work on the House of Representatives\u2019 Foreign Affairs and Armed Services committees and cited the morning\u2019s news of the U.S. withdrawal from the INF, the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, signed more than 30 years ago by President Ronald Reagan and his Soviet Union counterpart, Mikhail Gorbachev.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou have supported nuclear disarmament,\u201d Burroughs said to the congresswoman, a military veteran. Did she fear that the failure to renew the treaty would trigger a new arms race, Burroughs asked, and what did she believe must be done to avoid it?<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to get back to the negotiating table,\u201d said Gabbard. \u201cThese treaties are critical.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabbard also cited the imminent need to renew the START treaty and, she said, immediately abandon any \u201cthinking wrongly that a nuclear war can be won. That\u2019s what\u2019s at stake here. Nuclear proliferation being kicked off by Trump. The only alternative to diplomacy is war.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pilar Marrero of La Opinion<\/em> followed Burroughs\u2019 question with more foreign policy concerns, asking about the U.S. role in addressing \u201cthe massive refugee movement, specifically from Central America and also about \u201cthe Venezuelan crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis really gets to the core of why it\u2019s necessary to learn from the mistakes of the past,\u201d Gabbard replied, citing \u201cefforts at regime change, whether covert or overt,\u201d and how some of the countries from which people are fleeing \u2013 Guatemala and Honduras, for example \u2013 \u201care suffering the consequences of short-sighted and failed policies, even those made with the best of intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n

A recent policy mistake, she said, is the current president\u2019s decision last year to withdraw from UNHCR, the United Nations Human Rights Council, the UN\u2019s refugee agency, which the president said had been too critical of Israel.<\/p>\n

Joe Orozco, of Hoopa Tribal Radio<\/em>, turned the conversation closer to home. Did the congresswoman intend to address shortcomings in the Bureau of Indian Affairs\u2019 management of its federal government trust responsibilities? Specifically absent, Orozco said, is any consideration of the importance of media such as newspapers and radio or of the need to support and sustain these outlets.<\/p>\n

Gabbard said she\u2019d made two visits to Standing Rock, North Dakota, where plans to construct a fossil fuel pipeline running through tribal lands in proximity to their water supplies inspired virulent protests in 2016 and 2017.<\/p>\n

Hassan Abbas, of Arab American News<\/em>, asked Gabbard about her \u201cdiplomatic strategy for achieving peace in the Middle East and at home.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gabbard said it was unlikely that she\u2019d be able to parse the region\u2019s issues in this brief question-and-answer session but reiterated her position that politicians and leaders must sit down with people they may have nothing in common with and \u201cbe willing to have those tough conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n

But for the United States she said, beyond misguided efforts at regime change, \u201cwe have to end this U.S. foreign policy of being the world\u2019s police.\u201d<\/p>\n

She grew more specific in speaking of Iran. The current administration says it doesn\u2019t want war with Iran but \u201cevery single thing it does points directly toward a path to war, continuing to escalate the crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n

Among many mistakes, she said, is \u201csending and deploying more U.S. troops to the region, \u201cleading up to a war that would be far more devastating than anything we saw with the war in Iraq, and further exacerbate the refugee crisis that exists because of these conflicts and regime-change wars across the Middle East.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sing Tao Daily<\/em> reporter Ke Xu in New York, in the last of the opening questions, asked Gabbard how current trade disputes with China might affect Asian Americans.
\n\u201cI\u2019m very concerned about escalating tensions\u201d between the United States and China and the \u201cirresponsible trade war,\u201d she said, and characterized the president\u2019s strategies as \u201cunpredictable, shoot-from-the-hip.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAn economic war can very easily escalate into a hot war,\u201d she warned.<\/p>\n

The current dispute has harmed U.S. small businesses, farms and manufacturers, she said, and \u201cthey\u2019re all caught in the \u201ccounter-productive effect.\u201d<\/p>\n

Calling for diplomacy and cooperation rather than conflict, her closing statement lamented the lost potential for good from countries \u201cuniquely positioned to play a leadership role\u201d in combating climate change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Above): Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard, congresswoman from Hawai\u2019i. (EMS) Second in a series of ethnic media conversations with the 2020 presidential candidates In a teleconference with members of the ethnic press from across the country on Friday, Aug. 2, Democratic candidate for president Tulsi Gabbard, congresswoman from Hawai\u2019i, introduced herself as a product…<\/p>\n

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