May 2010 Press Clips: Prepared by The Communications Office
May 2010 Press Clips: Prepared by The Communications Office
May 2010 Press Clips: Prepared by The Communications Office
May 3, 2010
“U.S., Iran Expected to Spar at U.N. Nuclear Meeting” (National Public Radio)
Expert: commitment to disarmament. The question is whether U.S. actions will persuade most
other nations to support pressure on Iran, says Leonard Spector, a former energy department
official and now deputy director of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies. 'Iran
will pound away at that, but I think most states are going to say the United States has really made
some progress. It's committed quite openly to the vision of disarmament which we had not seen in
the previous administration.
Source: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126422432
“Iran Draws Western Criticism at Opening of U.N. Nuclear Talks” (PBS News)
Excerpt: Margaret Warner: Leonard Spector is deputy director of the non-proliferation center at
the Nonproliferation Center at the Monterey Institute of International Studies. Leonard
Spector: The crucial issue on the front burner for everyone is dealing with the Iranian nuclear
problem. It won't get played out that way. There will be other discussions.
Source: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/middle_east/jan-june10/iran_05-03.html?print
May 5, 2010
“Monterey County residents speak on etiquette of displaying foreign flags”
(The Salinas Californian)
Excerpt: At the Monterey Institute of International Studies' Morse building in Monterey, flags
from up to 70 countries, varying each semester, are displayed along with the American flag. The
display is meant to welcome the international students at the school, said Barbara Burke, executive
assistant to the president at MIIS. More than 33 percent of its students are from foreign countries,
she said.
Source: http://www.thecalifornian.com/article/20100505/NEWS01/5050312/1002/Monterey-
County-residents-speak-on-etiquette-of-displaying-foreign-flags
May 6, 2010
“La Puente Students explore nuclear bomb issues” (San Gabriel Valley Tribune)
Excerpt: The students' research is part of a program by the Monterey Institute of International
Studies in Monterey, which involved the students putting together four reports and a presentation
on "Nuclear Nonproliferation: Global Opportunities and Regional Challenges" over a six-month
process.
Source: http://www.sgvtribune.com/highlanders/ci_15025849
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May 8, 2010
“Why anti-sweatshop campaigns might just do it after all” (Financial Times and
Tim Harford)
Excerpt: intrigued to discover two new pieces of research addressing these questions. One is an
article in March’s American Economic Review, written by Ann Harrison of the University of
California, Berkeley, and Jason Scorse of the Monterey Institute. Harrison and Scorse study data
from Indonesia. In the 1990s, Indonesia was the focus of anti-sweatshop campaigns that persuaded
the US government to put pressure on its Indonesian counterpart, and encouraged…
Source: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/da35c4f2-571e-11df-aaff-00144feab49a.html
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University in Nagoya, Japan. He translated his first book, Hagakure, an 18th-century martial arts
classic, to fulfill an academic requirement – with no thought it might be published.
Source: http://www.pbartspaper.com/2010/05/books-feature-renowned-translator-of.html
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U.S., Iran Expected To Spar At U.N. Nuclear Meeting : NPR http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=126422432
by MIKE SHUSTER
Enlarge Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is leading the U.S.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is expected to take delegation. Iran is sending President Mahmoud
a defiant stand against the U.S. and its Western allies at the Ahmadinejad. Each is scheduled to address the
NPT conference, which begins Monday. gathering on Monday — remarks that will be
followed closely given the tensions between the two
countries over Iran's nuclear program.
The NPT recognizes five nations as nuclear weapons states: the U.S., Russia, Britain, France and China.
They possessed nuclear weapons at the time the treaty went into force in 1970. The rest of the signatories
joined and committed not to acquire nuclear weapons. India, Pakistan and Israel are known to possess
nuclear weapons, but remain outside the treaty.
"We will push to make sure that there are real consequences for those states that choose not to comply
with their non-proliferation obligations. We will work to prevent states from cynically violating the treaty and
then exercising their withdrawal rights to evade accountability," Tauscher said.
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In order to be more effective in bolstering the non-proliferation pillar of the treaty, the Obama
administration has taken several steps to reduce the American nuclear arsenal. That's also one of the
pillars of the NPT — disarmament, whereby the five nuclear weapons states are committed to eventual
total nuclear disarmament.
Recently, the U.S. signed a new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with Russia, and issued a new set of
policies that greatly diminish the role of nuclear weapons in the defense of the United States.
"It's the non-nuclear-weapons states that have the most to gain for making sure that the NPT is robust and
that safeguards are effective and that cheaters like North Korea and Iran are punished," Reiss said. "Our
reductions aren't a prize or a reward to the non-nuclear-weapons states. It's something that we do out of
our self-interest. But the NPT is in their self-interest."
The U.S. and other nations will almost certainly be pressing for a conference declaration, which must be
accepted by consensus — meaning all 189 states agree.
Iran's opposition alone would stymie consensus. But that might not be a bad outcome, Spector said.
"If you build consensus and you almost get all the way home, and Iran blocks the consensus, you know,
even that is a somewhat important victory. Because it isolates Iran and it shows that the international
community and Iran are at odds," he said.
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I've argued that exact point myself on this forum. It is so obvious how closely the media follows
the US administration party line. No attention is given to the Human Rights and Nuclear
Proliferation issues in countries which are allies, like Saudi Arabia or Israel.
Yet Iran becomes the media's focus since it is seen as a threat by the administration and its
allies.
Its outrageous when these news organizations portray themselves to be independent and
unbiased!!
Monday, May 03, 2010 3:58:14 PM
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What's worse, this double standard permeates through to so-called independent news
organizations, like NPR. Way to go guys!!
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Second, most everyone who's lead Israel (a nuclear armed entity) has been accused of
corruption.
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As the United Nations began its conference on nuclear weapons, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drew ire with accusations that the U.S. is leading the charge to
intimidate non-nuclear states. Margaret Warner reports on the growing tensions between Iran and Western nations.
Transcript
JUDY WOODRUFF: Next: A country that may be developing nuclear weapons shows up at a conference to stop the spread of nuclear weapons.
MARGARET WARNER: Holding signs reading "No Nukes, No War," thousands massed in New York City streets this weekend to call for a
permanent end to nuclear weapons.
MARGARET WARNER: They marched in advance of a United Nations conference convened to strengthen the current treaty to curb the spread of
nuclear weapons.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon opened the conclave this morning.
BAN KI-MOON, United Nations secretary-general: The work you undertake this day is of immense importance to humankind.
MARGARET WARNER: Every five years, the signers of the 40-year-old Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, or NPT, meet to review how well it's
working and what else needs to be done. But looming over the month-long conference this time is an item not explicitly on the agenda: Iran's ongoing
nuclear program.
And today made it clear this conference is going to be a showdown of sorts between the two main protagonists: Washington and Tehran.
LEONARD SPECTOR, Monterey Institute of International Studies: This is going to be a face-off between the United States and Iran.
MARGARET WARNER: Leonard Spector is deputy director of the non-proliferation center at the Nonproliferation Center at the Monterey Institute
of International Studies.
LEONARD SPECTOR: The crucial issue on the front burner for everyone is dealing with the Iranian nuclear problem. It won't get played out that
way. There will be other discussions. But underlying each one of these on nuclear energy, on disarmament, on building consensus, is, can we bring
pressure to bear on Iran?
MARGARET WARNER: Iran is hard at work enriching uranium for civilian energy purposes, it insists. But the U.S. and its allies believe Tehran is
bent on developing weapons and is pushing for tougher sanctions at the Security Council to try to thwart its ambitions.
Secretary-General Ban started off by calling on Iran to lay suspicions about its program to rest. But, at his turn to speak, Iranian President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad hit back, saying there was no credible proof his country was working on such weapons and insisting that it was the states with nuclear
arms that were encouraging proliferation.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD, Iranian president (through translator): There are reportedly more than 20,000 nuclear warheads worldwide, half
of which belong to the United States. And the other competing groups continue to develop nuclear weapons under the pretext of deterrent. The trend
constitutes a violation of obligations under the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty, or NPT.
MARGARET WARNER: Delegates from Britain, France, and the United States walked out of the hall as he spoke. But that didn't deter Ahmadinejad
from also taking aim at the U.S. for retaining the right to use nuclear weapons.
MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD (through translator): It is a misperception that it is OK to use nuclear weapons. Regrettably, the United States has
not only used nuclear weapons, but also continues to threaten to use such weapons against other countries, including my country.
MARGARET WARNER: In a new nuclear strategy unveiled last month, the Obama administration pledged for the first time that the U.S. would
never use nuclear weapons against a non-nuclear state, if, and only if, that state was abiding by its obligations under the NPT not to develop nuclear
arms of its own.
LEONARD SPECTOR: Iran's strategy is to deflect attention away from Iran. This speech by Ahmadinejad was strictly about disarmament, and had
nothing to do with compliance with the treaty or, you know, his own behavior.
MARGARET WARNER: And by disarmament, he's talking about the nuclear states, like the United States?
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As residents in the Salinas area celebrate Cinco de "It just hurts me to see another flag flying without
Mayo today, with many displaying Mexican flags, the American flag," he said. "A lot of my friends died
strong feelings can rise about the etiquette of serving this country, and the American flag just
displaying a foreign country's banner. means a lot to me."
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on the challenge of nuclear nonproliferation - to bombs began when King's former professor, Tom
stop the spread of weapons of mass destruction. Ilgen, Jones Foundation professor of political
studies at Pitzer College in Claremont,
The students' research is part of a program by suggested the program.
the Monterey Institute of International Studies in
Monterey, which involved the students putting "I studied nuclear weapons in college and I'm
together four reports and a presentation on constantly doing research," said King.
"Nuclear Nonproliferation: Global Opportunities
and Regional Challenges" over a six-month He opened up the program to the entire school.
process. Out of many interested students, it came down
to the six juniors.
"(Most of the research) was here at school and
online at home," said Jimenez, 16, of La Puente. "I know nuclear weapons are something not
"Mr. King was our ultimate resource." always addressed, but nuclear weapons is a
global issue," said King.
The group gave its presentation at the
culmination of the program - the Critical Issues Aside from doing research in the classroom and
Forum, an annual conference organized by the at home, King wanted the students to get real
James Martin Center hands-on experience, so the group took a field
trip to the Atomic Testing Museum and the
for Nonproliferation Studies at the Monterey restricted Nevada Nuclear Test site. The Nevada
institute. site is
The local students joined more than 100 only open a few times a year and visitor access is
students from 12 U.S. and 10 Russian high limited.
schools also taking part in the program. Seven of
the schools were from California.
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La Puente High School staff and students make a trip to the King said he helped the students with the first
Atomic Testing Museum in Las Vegas, Nevada, while report but the other reports and presentation
researching for a nuclear non-proliferation program. Top
row, teacher Andrew King, Cesar Torres, teacher Julia
were all the students' work.
Fornaca and Elizabeth Jimenez. Bottom row is teacher
Matthew Rustings-Morey, Arthur Ortiz, Stephanie Ayon, "I just helped them edit the final result," he said.
Rigoberto Lopez and Adan Gonzalez. (Photo provided to
Highlander) "I didn't want them to have `death by
Powerpoint.' I wanted them to be interactive with
"I tried to make it as engaging as possible," said their presentation. I was very proud."
King.
Each school's reports will be posted online and
"We got to drive on a crater," said Gonzalez. published after the forum.
"It was amazing," added Lopez. For the event, each student chose a topic and
took turns speaking on that issue during a 25-
"The thought of how little (the nuclear bomb was minute presentation.
compared to how big they are now) that created
the crater, and the crater was huge," said Ayon. The students covered issues such as the Iranian
threat, North Korea, the opportunity of Global
Lopez said he was surprised to know there are Zero, improving U.S.-Russia relations. They
still places like the Nevada site and that there is wanted to address their fellow youth to help
still testing going on. them become more aware of the real threat of
nuclear weapons.
"Before, I thought bombs were a good thing to
protect ourselves," said Ortiz. "Then I started to l "We gave our thoughts on our current issues,"
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said Ayon. King was glad to see the students were able to
talk to other teens about something other than
"We had to predict what might happen if the NPT music or movies.
(Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty) failed," added
Jimenez. "They shaped the opinion of (American teens for)
the Russian students, just the way (the Russian
With the signing of a nuclear arms reduction teens) shaped their experience," said King. "They
treaty by President Obama and Russian President are not just American citizens, this just made
Dmitry Medvedev earlier that month, the group them more global citizens."
was sure to touch on that subject as well.
The La Puente High group all agreed they are
King said he made sure to have the students more interested now in international relations
read newspapers and other material from other and will keep up with the issues as they develop.
countries to understand their perspective.
"I would like to follow politics," said Lopez.
The students were excited to meet and make
friends with many students from around the "I still want to have something to do with police
country and from Russia. or politics," added Ayon, "but this opened my
eyes to other things."
"It was cool interacting with everybody," said
Lopez. "They spoke so many different The word has spread throughout the school and
languages." community about the school and there is already
a list of students interested in joining the
Now the students have a new set of Facebook program next year.
friends, they noted.
"We've got a lot of positive feedback," said King.
"We want to go to Russia and visit with our new
friends," said Gonzalez. The group was also recognized by Victory Over
Violence, Inc., (VOV) a national organization
One thing the La Puente students noticed they "dedicated to creating a positive force in the
had in common with all the teens they met at the media to offset the cynicism and negativity,
conference was they were just like them in many which create a climate of violence."
ways.
VOV donated a variety of books focused on
"Everybody wants proliferation," said Ayon. peace and understanding to the school's library.
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If you are an author, reporter, or journalist of some type, you have probably been referred to this page
because someone wants to politely explain to you the difference between translation and interpretation. There
is no need to take offense. This is just an effort to educate many people who have previously been unaware.
Not everyone outside the language industry knows the difference, but here is a basic principle you need to
understand if you want to maintain credibility and appear as if you know what you are talking about.
It is really very simple. Translation is written. Interpretation is spoken. Translators work with written
language. Interpreters deal with spoken language. That's it! There is nothing more to it!
Still, many reporters and journalists get this wrong on a daily basis. I will not cite any examples here because I
am not looking to embarrass anyone, but examples can be found easily with a quick Google search.
Trust me. You can take my word for it since I've worked as both a translator and an interpreter, and I've
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Although interpretation and translation have much in common, the practice of each profession
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Graduate School of Translation, Interpretation, & Language Education
Monterey Institute of International Studies
Translation refers to the rendering of written materials into a different language.... Interpretation
refers to the relaying of spoken words, such as lectures or conversations, into another language....
Center for Language Study
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Translators work with the written word.... Interpreters work with the spoken word....
American Translators Association
Even Wikipedia recognizes that many people attempt to use the word "translation" to refer to both; however,
"interpretation and translation are not synonymous."
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I hope by now you get it and you think I'm beating a dead horse. If you find this repetitive and are almost
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impromptu in a recent debate. Clearly speakers speak and writers write, and it is just plain wrong to think that
the words for speaking and writing are interchangeable.
Writing ≠ Speaking
Authors ≠ Orators
Translation ≠ Interpretation
Translators ≠ Interpreters
Journalists and reporters can maintain or lose credibility depending on how well they convey their
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For one final example, remember Hollywood's 2005 film starring Nicole Kidman. Hollywood does not always
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distributed to moviegoers in the "Language Capital of the World"when the The Interpreter was released in
2005. In a very simplified "see-Jane-run" style with stick figures, the illustration read: "Why isn't this movie
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When my book The Undercover Economist was published five years ago, I would occasionally be asked whether I
was in favour of sweatshops in developing countries. Not at all, I would reply. But I could see where the question
was coming from, because I was certainly worried as to whether campaigning against them would do any good.
My argument had a logic that will be familiar to economists. Unless sweatshop workers are literally slaves, they are
presumably working long hours in horrible conditions for low pay only because the alternative ways of making a
living are worse.
When a well-meaning group of activists launches a campaign against sweatshop labour among, say, Nike suppliers
in Indonesia, the obvious risk is that the sweatshops are closed, workers are tossed out on to the street, and the
work is shifted to computerised sewing machines in Osaka. This is surely not the aim. The only alternative is
economic growth: while it may be frustratingly slow, it finishes off sweatshops by producing far more attractive jobs.
But while the logic is straightforward enough, it is not watertight. A successful multinational may be profitable enough
to be able to afford wage increases, and may prefer to take wage increases on the chin rather than move its
business around. Economic growth itself can increase the demand for child labour as well as reducing the supply.
So I was intrigued to discover two new pieces of research addressing these questions. One is an article in March’s
American Economic Review, written by Ann Harrison of the University of California, Berkeley, and Jason Scorse of
the Monterey Institute. Harrison and Scorse study data from Indonesia. In the 1990s, Indonesia was the focus of
anti-sweatshop campaigns that persuaded the US government to put pressure on its Indonesian counterpart, and
encouraged US consumers to boycott companies such as Nike. (An influential study in 1989 had found that Nike’s
suppliers paid lower wages than other companies in the export sector.) Harrison and Scorse look at the footwear,
textile and clothing sectors and compare regions with lots of brand-name suppliers to regions with lower-profile
businesses.
If my argument is correct, Harrison and Scorse would have found a slump in employment in export factories in the
brand-name regions. There is little sign of this. Profits do fall, and so does investment. Some small plants closed.
But few, if any, jobs seem to have been lost.
The minimum wage in Indonesia more than doubled between 1989 and 1996, after inflation, and this did depress
employment. But there seemed to be no additional effect in the districts with lots of brand-name suppliers, despite
the fact that wages in those regions outpaced wage increases elsewhere by almost a third.
The second paper was presented in draft form at the Royal Economic Society meeting in Guildford at the end of
March. This research, by Nigar Hashimzade and Uma Kambhampati of the University of Reading, shows that
economic growth – at least in the short-term – is not enough to reduce child labour. Complementary policies to
strengthen schools and the incentive to attend them seem to be necessary.
Neither piece of research is the last word, and neither discounts the long-term effectiveness of economic growth in
improving working conditions. But I am having to think again about anti-sweatshop campaigns. At least I am in good
company. John Maynard Keynes is reported to have quipped, “When the facts change, I change my mind. What do
you do, sir?”
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Iran's alleged clandestine pursuit of a nuclear-weapon capability dominated the headlines last week during the ongoing Nuclear
Nonproliferation Treaty (NPT) Review Conference. However, beyond the theatrics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's verbal exchange, it is important to remember, and ultimately to address, the root cause of the
Iranian nuclear problem -- namely, the spread of dual-use technologies such as uranium enrichment to countries outside the ring of
first-order world powers.
The problem with uranium enrichment is its ambiguity: It is a vital component of the civilian nuclear power industry, yet it can also be
used to produce fissile material for nuclear weapons. The same centrifuges that enrich natural uranium to the levels required by
many civilian power reactors can also enrich uranium to the high levels required by nuclear bombs.
Since uranium enrichment cannot be banned outright or limited to certain states by fiat, voluntary solutions must be found that make
multilateral enrichment programs more attractive to states than pursuing their own national uranium enrichment programs. Coupled
with an international norm discouraging the spread of national uranium enrichment facilities, states could then profit from enrichment
while making the sovereign choice to eschew national control over the technology.
In recent years, several states have proposed various multilateral approaches to uranium enrichment. The most far-reaching
proposal came from Germany, which called for the creation of a uranium enrichment center on international territory -- similar to the
territory occupied by the U.N. headquarters -- controlled and administered by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The first, the International Uranium Enrichment Center at Angarsk, is already up and running in central Russia. The IUEC is
essentially an international joint stock venture. States that buy shares in the center gain a voice on its management board and
access to its services. However, only Russia operates the facility and has access to the enrichment technology. The shareholders
also receive dividends from the sale of enrichment services, enhancing the appeal. Currently, Armenia, Kazakhstan and Ukraine
participate in the IUEC, along with Russia.
Secondly, Russia and the IAEA have agreed to establish an international low-enriched uranium (LEU) fuel bank at Angarsk. The fuel
bank concept is similar to insurance for states that choose not to develop their own domestic enrichment facilities. If the supply of
reactor fuel to an importing state were cut off for political reasons, it could apply to the fuel bank through the IAEA for an emergency
shipment of LEU. The guarantee would not apply in cases where the importing country had violated its safeguards obligations or
defaulted on bilaterally contracted payments.
Together, the IUEC and Angarsk fuel bank provide a compelling alternative model to nationally controlled enrichment centers.
Participating states would avoid the high capital investment costs of developing indigenous enrichment facilities, while maintaining
assurance of supply. The cost of importing uranium could be offset by dividends from owning a stake in the international enrichment
center. The importer gains security and cheaper reactor fuel, while sacrificing only the possibility of one day turning a civilian
enrichment center into a military one -- a possibility that is forbidden under the NPT anyway, unless the state first withdraws from the
treaty.
Media reports indicate that Argentina, Brazil, Egypt and South Africa were among the eight states that voted against the Russian fuel
bank proposal when it came up for a vote at the IAEA in November 2009. Argentina, Brazil and South Africa are influential middle
powers with relatively developed nuclear sectors. Egypt, while it has no nuclear program, is a leader of the large Non-Aligned
Movement, whose 100-plus members are the largest bloc at the NPT Review Conference. These states fear that multilateral
approaches to the fuel cycle will ultimately limit states' access to the peaceful uses of nuclear energy, a right that is enshrined in the
Nonproliferation Treaty.
This reluctance has stymied a separate fuel bank proposal under which the IAEA would directly own and manage a supply of LEU.
This proposal was put forward by the non-governmental Nuclear Threat Initiative, which offered to donate $50 million to the project if
IAEA member states raised an additional $100 million. This condition was met in March 2009. However, the IAEA has been unable to
forge an agreement to implement the proposal.
As a result, Russia has taken the lead on the issue of devising multilateral approaches to the nuclear fuel cycle, with the strong
support of the United States. Together, and with their partners, they should work at the current NPT Review Conference to persuade
skeptical states of the benefits of voluntary, non-political international uranium enrichment arrangements, as well as of the risks
posed by the unchecked spread of enrichment technology to new states. A strong endorsement of the Russian proposals at the
review conference will build momentum for multilateral approaches in other decision-making bodies, such as the United Nations and
the IAEA, as well as in bilateral discussions between states.
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The Iranian nuclear horse is already halfway out of the barn. Preventing a further fraying of the nonproliferation regime that has
served the world well for four decades requires an attractive international alternative to national uranium enrichment. The
international community must make a serious diplomatic effort to develop and agree on such measures, in order to manage the
nuclear issue in the 21st century.
Cole Harvey is a research associate at the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies in Washington, D.C. He is the
author of a March 2010 report for the Arms Control Association, entitled "Major Proposals to Strengthen the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty." His work has appeared in Arms Control Today and on the Web site of the Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Photo: Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad touring Iran's uranium enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran, 2008 (Photo by the Web
site of the president of Iran).
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THE DEPROLIFERATOR -- Last summer, the Economist published a letter from hawkish
Arizona Senator John Kyl (currently neck deep in the springtime of his state's immigrant shame).
Cole Harvey of the James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies reports that Kyl wrote:
"Every nuclear weapons power -- with the exception of the US -- is currently modernising its
nuclear weapons and weapons delivery systems. ... Yet the US continues to permit its nuclear
forces to atrophy and decline."
Harvey continued [emphasis added]: "Later in 2009, all 40 Republican senators at the time.
... wrote that the further reductions in the U.S. nuclear arsenal would be acceptable only if
accompanied by. . . 'funding for a modern warhead. . . involving replacement, or possibly,
component reuse.'" Since President Obama would need some of their votes to ratify the new
START treaty, an increase in nuclear funding for the administration's proposed 2011 budget was
apparently perceived as necessary. [See below for how much. -- RW]
Meanwhile, what's italicized above provides a glimpse into how confusing the concept of
nuclear modernization can be, as well as the degree to which it can be manipulated. According
to an Arms Control Association (ACA) Fact Sheet, "This distinction between 'rebuilt' and 'new'
has led some to reach the mistaken conclusion that the U.S. strategic weapon systems are not
being 'modernized.' ... These systems are in many cases being completely rebuilt with
essentially all new parts, although they are not technically 'new' systems."
The questions this raises might be familiar to those who restore classic cars. At what point
does the identity of the car on which you're working run the risk of being lost and
metamorphosing into a new one? For example, can the power train be replaced?
The author is scarcely equipped to answer that question. Still, it might prove helpful to
acquaint ourselves with these three nuclear programs: Stockpile Stewardship, the Reliable
Replacement Warhead, and Life Extension. You're right to be suspicious if they sound a little too
reassuring -- "stewardship, "reliable," "life extension."
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The Stockpile Stewardship Program, reports the ACA, "monitors weapons for signs of aging .
. . conducts computer simulations [to verify they'll still detonate] . . . replaces aging components
of weapons [and] adheres as closely as possible to the original design specifications of tested
weapons."
Life Extension (LEP), Harvey writes, is the program in which, "Weapon refurbishment is
carried out . . . for individual systems." For example LEP for one warhead is expected to extend
its "life" [the span of time it's capable of dealing death, that is -- RW] for 30 years. The process
includes "refurbishing the nuclear explosive package, the arming, firing, and fusing system . . .
associated cables . . . valves, pads." You know -- the same way they keep airplanes flying for 50
years.
When it comes to the Reliable Replacement Warhead, though, Harvey explains: "Rather than
rely exclusively on long-term life extension for existing warheads, the program called for the
design and production of a new nuclear warhead" though "without the resumption of
underground testing."
In a show of rare good sense, Congress terminated that program. But the current senior
White House coordinator for WMD counterterrorism and arms control, Gary Samore, was
recently quoted by Martin Matishak at GSN: "From what I understand ... refurbishment and
reuse will be perfectly fine for the foreseeable future. But if I'm wrong, and replacement
becomes necessary, the president has the option to do that." Matishak continues: "The
approach to renovation of each warhead type will be determined [as it] comes up for its periodic
overhaul, and will be 'consistent with the congressionally mandated Stockpile Management
Program,' according to" the new Nuclear Posture Review.
Wait a minute -- Stockpile Management Program? What's the difference between that and
the Stockpile Stewardship Program?
According to Matishak, the former replaced the Reliable Replacement Warhead program.
"The stockpile management program [enables] modernizing the U.S. nuclear stockpile along a
spectrum of options ranging from . . . refurbishment to the manufacture of 'new' weapons. [But
any new design should] adhere to well known designs and components, and be undertaken
only in support of further reductions in the stockpile and the continued moratorium on nuclear
tests. [Emphasis added.] In other words, we're supposedly pursuing these programs to advance
our progress on the path to disarmament. But, for 2011, "the Obama administration is requesting
$7 billion, a 10 percent increase, in funding for weapons activities in the. . . National Nuclear
Security Administration."
Besides the Life Extension Program, this money would help fund, among other things:
. . . large increases for the. . . plutonium facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory,
N.M., which would see its budget increased from $97 million [in 2010] to $225
million in [2011] ... complete rebuilds of the Minuteman III ICBM and Trident II
[submarine]. ... Additionally, a new submarine, the SSBN-X, is undergoing
development in an effort that is expected to cost $85 billion. The B-2 strategic
bomber, a relatively new system, is being upgraded, as is the B-52H bomber.
You can be forgiven for wondering if these programs don't cancel out the token reductions in
the START treaty and then some. In fact, it's hard to deny that START and the Nuclear Posture
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Review give every appearance of functioning as covers for the perpetuation of what's been
called the nuclear-industrial complex. As disarmament authors Darwin Bond-Graham, Nicholas
Robinson, and Will Parrish made abundantly clear at ZComm:
Rather than allowing a neat policy process carried out at the executive level to
determine the future of the nuclear weapons complex, forces with financial ... stakes
in nuclear weaponry, working through think tanks like [the Hoover Institute], or
corporate entities like Bechtel and the University of California [which together
manage Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore nuclear weapons laboratories], are
actively attempting to lock in a de-facto set of policies by building a new research,
design, and production infrastructure that will ensure nuclear weapons are a
centerpiece of the US military empire far into the future. [Emphasis added.]
This is exemplified by the "Four Horsemen," as Henry Kissinger, former Senator Sam Nunn,
former Secretary of Defense William Perry (now a senior fellow at Hoover), George Schultz
(president of Bechtel for eight years before he became Secretary of State; also now a senior
fellow at Hoover) became known after they wrote an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal in 2008
calling for the abolition of nuclear weapons. They solidified their position -- newfound for
Kissinger and Perry -- with another such WSJ piece a year later.
Their third op-ed in the series, though, published earlier this year, was titled "How to Protect Our
Nuclear Deterrent." The phrase "nuclear deterrent" is a tell that its user seeks to keep
disarmament relegated to the slow lane, if not stalled out on the shoulder of the road. As the
ZComm trio cited above (as opposed to the Four Horsemen . . . the Three Musketeers?)
explained: "The Four Horsemen endorse the view ... that 'investments are urgently needed ... in
the laboratories' budgets for the science, technology, and engineering programs that support
and underwrite the nation's nuclear deterrent.'"
In fact, the three maintained: "With their direct links to the corporations that manage the
weapons labs . . . the Four Horsemen are the chief negotiators working through public forums to
limit the extent of arms control treaties and extract the biggest pro-nuclear lab concessions." The
Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, they wrote, "have long been known
as powerful bulwarks against international treaties that limit nuclear arms development."
In other words, "statements of politicians and elder statesmen about a world free of nuclear
weapons. ... has served to fix the attention of disarmament and antiwar activists on 'policy
making,' which has 'blinded them to the political deal-making process at hand.'"
Or as disarmament sage Jonathan Schell, less than thrilled by the new START, wrote in the
Nation:
If this trend continues, it is entirely possible that the ultimate mockery will occur:
nuclear arsenals will march forward into the future under a banner that reads Ban the
Bomb.
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"The challenges you face cannot be used an an excuse for apathy or as justification for
disengagement," she told them. "You can, and you must, remember your commitment to your
community, to your nation and to the world. You are already on that path; it's now time to take the
next steps."
Sounding a familiar theme, she told the students that they had had the unique opportunity to learn
from service and were equipped with a set of skills that connects them to their environment and to
people.
"Why not take the educational tools that you have acquired and find a way to serve? The skills you will
gain will serve you for the rest of your life."
The ceremony opened with the traditional welcome in Spanish, Japanese, Italian and Chinese,
delivered by members of the faculty.
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• Adan Romero, a first-generation student from Salinas who majored in biology. He was inspired to
pursue a career in medical research by his mother, who suffers from osteoarthritis. In the summer of
2008, he conducted research on an early diagnostic tool for the disease at UC San Francisco. He will
continue his work to better people's lives when he heads to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
this fall to pursue a Ph.D. in biological engineering.
President Harrison
then introduced the
student speaker,
Hayley Allison, this
year's winner of the President's Medal for Exemplary Student
Achievement. Allison, a Teledramatic Arts and Technology major,
produced the first Monterey Bay Teen Film Festival in 2009 and
further developed the event this year. As a Service Learning
leader, she was instrumental in establishing film and video
workshops for at-risk teens.
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How one little-noticed outcome of Obama's Nuclear Security Summit -- a new commitment to nuclear
education and training -- could change the world.
BY WILLIAM C. POTTER | APRIL 23, 2010
During his luncheon remarks at U.S. President Barack Obama's Nuclear Security Summit last week, Yukiya
Amano, the new head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), is said to have emphasized the
important educational dimension of his agency's work. This emphasis might be expected given his past service as
Japan's leading Foreign Ministry expert on disarmament and nonproliferation education.
More surprising was the degree to which the summit communiqué (and work plan for its implementation) also
highlighted the role of education, training, and capacity-building as tools to forestall nuclear terrorism and
foster a nuclear security culture. Although this issue is not a headline-grabber (it was ignored by the media and
largely overlooked by summit critics and supporters alike), it represents the most novel and potentially
significant long-term product of last week's meeting. As the summit leaders appear to recognize, absent greater
attention to the "human factor," more guards, guns, and gates will have little effect in securing and safeguarding
the enormous stocks of fissile material scattered around the world.
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One reason why education has remained an underutilized tool for promoting nuclear security and
nonproliferation is that national governments and international organizations have tended to fixate on quick
solutions to immediate crises rather than invest in longer-term educational programs. Consequently, one is
hard-pressed to find high schools in the United States or elsewhere that provide any courses (or even
components of courses) on nuclear security and nonproliferation topics. Regrettably, the situation is not much
better at the undergraduate or graduate university level, and remarkably few colleges and universities offer
courses that enable students to study the subject about which Obama, America's professor in chief, lectured his
fellow heads of state last week.
In short, at a time when the leaders of the world appear to recognize the need for new thinking about nuclear
dangers, there are few venues for training the next generation of specialists or even introducing our future
leaders to the subject. The Nuclear Security Summit provided a much-needed clarion call to action, but was
imprecise about what needs to be done.
Using education and training as a tool to promote nuclear security entails a combination of traditional and
innovative teaching techniques to convey information and enhance analytical thinking. So-called active learning
pedagogical approaches, such as simulations and role-playing exercises, have proved themselves as particularly
effective means to encourage "thinking with the eyes of others" and to convey and hone practical skills to future
nuclear analysts and policymakers. In fact, current U.S. national security officials also would profit from the
opportunity periodically to switch roles in a simulation context and, at least for a short time, view the problems
of international peace and security from the vantage point of an adversary or reluctant ally. Given the lack of
current activity at the long-stalled Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, ostensibly the principal negotiating
forum for multilateral arms-control negotiations, it might be an ideal venue for such a simulation.
A very important educational supplement to formal classroom training is on-the-job training, which may be
undertaken at research centers, national nuclear laboratories, government agencies, international organizations,
and NGOs with responsibilities and expertise in the nuclear sector. Such training, under the mentorship of
experienced professionals, will vary widely depending on the organization in question and might include such
tasks as research, data collection and analysis, development of course materials, reporting on conferences and
interagency meetings, and performance of routine office work. What all meaningful on-the-job training
programs have in common is provision of opportunities for trainees to apply their classroom knowledge to
practical problems they are apt to encounter in their subsequent careers.
Today, there is a tremendous opportunity to exploit new information and communication technologies for
nuclear security and nonproliferation training. These technologies facilitate the development and dissemination
globally of interactive and multilingual courses and resource materials, and make it possible to bring experts
anywhere in the world into the classroom in real time or be viewed by students on their laptops at their
convenience.
However, a great gap currently separates national and international statements about the dangers of nuclear
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terrorism and the paucity of funds allocated to train the next generation of specialists on nonproliferation,
including nuclear security. One useful step that could be taken to remedy this situation in the United States
would be enactment of legislation that creates a National Nuclear Security and Nonproliferation Education Act.
A one-time appropriation of around $50 million would provide up to 50 fellowships per year to graduate
students to pursue advanced multidisciplinary training in nuclear security and nonproliferation at universities of
their choice. Legislation of this sort would have the dual positive effect of attracting bright young talent to the
field and encouraging more universities to offer courses on nonproliferation in order to secure tuition-paying
students.
Development of a global nuclear security culture such as that envisaged by last week's summit cannot be
accomplished easily or quickly. Nor will an influx of money alone solve the problem. What is required is a
sustained educational effort as part of a broader strategy to build a global community of informed and dedicated
specialists. This strategy has governmental, international organizational, academic, and nongovernmental
components and requires for its success a partnership among representatives from each of these communities.
This partnership received a much-needed boost during the Nuclear Security Summit and the parallel meeting of
representatives from the NGO and academic community, and the White House is to be congratulated for
encouraging meaningful input from the nongovernmental sector. The real test, however, lies ahead. The next
security summit is planned for 2012 in Seoul and will provide a benchmark against which to judge how well the
Class of 2010 performed its assignments. We know Obama is an inspirational teacher. Let's hope he is also a
tough grader.
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By Chauncey Mabe
After the Bible, the Tao Te Ching is the second most translated text
in the world, and certainly it is the most famous and influential book
of ancient Chinese wisdom in the West. Why, then, with dozens of
versions already available, would we need a new one – especially by
a translator who made his name in classical Japanese samurai
literature?
“My friends all ask that same question,” says William Scott Wilson,
the renowned translator of Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, The
Unfettered Mind: Writings of the Zen Master to the Sword Master,
and The Book of the Five Rings, among other medieval samurai
classics.
One reason, says Wilson, who grew up in Fort Lauderdale and now
lives in Miami, is the deep connection between the Tao and Zen
Buddhism, which, in turn exerts a strong influence on the Japanese
martial arts tradition. In a way, he says, all his samurai translations
have led him back in time toward the Tao Te Ching.
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The Monterey Institute of International Studies ranked fourth this year among 61 schools for number of
students in a Peace Corps Master's International program.
The Peace Corps master's degree program combines international service with graduate schools,
sending students on a 27-month Peace Corps assignment overseas after completing one year of
graduate work in the United States.
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UNITED NATIONS — Hard-fought negotiations over the future of the Nuclear Nonproliferation
Treaty ended here on Friday with 189 nations reaffirming their commitment to eliminating all
nuclear weapons and setting a new 2012 deadline for holding a regional conference to eliminate
unconventional weapons from the Middle East.
The complicated 28-page final document from the treaty review conference calls for the United
Nations secretary general, along with the United States, Russia and Britain, to appoint a facilitator
and consult with the countries of the Middle East convening the conference.
That goal was considered the landmark achievement of the negotiations, aside from reaffirming
the basic premise of the treaty. Review conferences are held every five years and the last one, in
2005, ended in disarray, the gap between states with nuclear weapons and those without too wide
to bridge.
Given the current tense realities in the Middle East, senior government officials and diplomats on
all sides conceded that even calling such a conference, much less accomplishing any of its goals,
remained a distant prospect.
“People are not going to come to a disarmament conference voluntarily if they are at war with their
neighbors,” said Ellen O. Tauscher, the under secretary of state for arms control and international
security affairs, who led the American delegation. Washington’s support for such a conference does
not supersede the longstanding United States policy that disarmament requires a comprehensive
peace in the region first, she said.
But in 1995 Arab states accepted the indefinite extension of the nonproliferation treaty, in
exchange for a commitment for such a Middle East conference. Since there had been no movement
on the issue for 15 years, Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz of Egypt had made it clear from the outset
that fellow Arab states and the nonaligned movement demanded some concrete steps to support
the document this year.
Tensions over the content of the final document after a month of negotiations went down to the
wire, with diplomats portraying the last few days as a poker game with the United States and Iran
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each trying to call the other’s bluff so that one might be blamed for the failure of the conference to
reach consensus.
In the end, the United States accepted one reference to Israel in the final document, in the section
on the Middle East, which basically repeats a previously stated position that Israel should join the
40-year-old nonproliferation treaty. The Israeli Mission to the United Nations would not comment
on the outcome. The Israeli government has never confirmed the widespread consensus that it
holds at least 100 nuclear missiles.
The document also emphasizes the need for countries to respect treaty guidelines for keeping their
nuclear programs open to international inspection and suffering the consequences if they do not.
Such measures are likely to strengthen the Security Council’s stand in its current confrontation
with Iran over possible new sanctions because of suspicions that it is trying to develop nuclear
weapons, which Tehran vehemently denies.
“My guess is that language caused the Iranians pretty significant heartburn even though they
decided to go along with it,” said Gary Samore, the White House coordinator for unconventional
weapons.
Much of Friday was spent waiting to hear if Iran would accept the final document. Diplomats said
that the conference chairman, Libran N. Cabactulan of the Philippines, even called the leaders of
Brazil and Turkey, temporary Security Council members who have been trumpeting their ability to
reach a compromise with Iran, to prevail on Tehran not to foil the agreement.
In a speech after the document was adopted, Ali Asghar Soltanieh, the Iranian envoy, listed at least
nine ways in which Iran thought the document was weak. A proposed 2025 deadline for the
elimination of all nuclear weapons had been scuttled by the nuclear weapons states, he noted, as
had a proposal for a legally binding commitment from states with nuclear weapons not to use them
against those without.
“It is of course far from our expectations, but at the same time it is a step forward toward our goal
of disarmament,” Mr. Soltanieh told reporters. Iran had also pushed for more stringent language
demanding that Israel join the nonproliferation treaty.
Earlier in the week, Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and Gen. James L. Jones, the national
security adviser, met with Arab ambassadors at the White House to work out compromise Middle
East language. The United States accepted dropping direct linkage between a comprehensive
Middle East peace and the regional denuclearizing conference, Arab diplomats said, as well as the
one reference to Israel.
The United States repeatedly said Friday that it objected to the language singling out Israel, but
accepted it because consensus on the overall document underscored President Obama’s
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“There is no problem with the language, but having that language in the Mideast section we think
sends a really negative political signal,” Mr. Samore said. “It suggests the conference will be
designed to single out Israel.” That would decrease the likelihood of such a conference ever
happening, he said, which is why the United States insisted in retaining a role as a sponsor.
Given that all 189 states that have signed the nonproliferation treaty had to agree to the wording,
including 64 separate ways to move forward, all the major players found flaws in the outcome. It
meant many steps had to be watered down.
Although the document singles out North Korea by name, for example, saying its nuclear program
constitutes a threat to “peace and security,” it was not as strong as the condemnation initially
proposed.
Aside from Israel, the document also calls on India and Pakistan, both holding nuclear weapons
but not nonproliferation treaty members, to join it.
While rejecting a deadline, for the first time the main five nuclear weapons states accepted vague
language referring to a new, stronger international convention on eliminating nuclear weapons,
and the idea of a “timeline” was introduced.
Despite differences over the pace of disarmament and proliferation concerns, the document
breathes new life into a treaty seen as under threat, analysts said. “That is the positive, there is
much more attention on future action and new benchmarks,” said Prof. William C. Potter, the
director of the center for nonproliferation at the Monterey Institute of International Studies.
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Richard Baum, (second from the left) one of UCLA's top China experts, shares his views on whether China is
willing to engage in international affairs as a responsible world leader. (Photo by Todd Cheney)
With tensions rising between North Korea and South Korea over the torpedoing of a South Korean ship, the U.S. is urging
China to condemn North Korea’s actions. Will China act as it did last year when it took a stand and criticized North Korea for
testing a nuclear weapon? Or will it do nothing?
The fundamental question of whether China is on the path to becoming a responsible stakeholder in world affairs or acting
as a revisionist superpower was put to a prestigious group of China scholars from universities and think tanks across the
country. They gathered Monday, May 24, at the James West Alumni Center for an all-day conference that focused on
China’s engagement on key international issues.
The conference was hosted by the Washington, D.C.-based Center for American Progress and, from UCLA, the Burkle
Center for International Relations, the Center for Chinese Studies and the International Institute.
In trying to ascertain what path China is taking, participants took into consideration a wide range of factors, among them, that
country’s reaction when the Dalai Lama visited the White House, China’s efforts to build up its navy and its rising economic
stature perhaps most clearly evidenced by being the first nation to emerge from the global financial crisis.
“The problem, of course, is we can’t infer anything just from what they say,” said David Lake, Distinguished Professor of
Political Science at UC San Diego, who moderated a panel on China’s role in regional and global security challenges. “You
can say anything — it’s cheap talk. The question is, what do you do? Can you demonstrate what kind of superpower China
is going to be through actions and not just words?”
Panelist Jing-dong Yuan, associate professor of international policy studies at the Monterey Institute of International Studies,
said that the main question that China’s leadership is grappling with is whether China should continue to follow the
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instructions of late Communist Party leader Deng Xiaoping “to keep a low profile and develop overall national strength, but
not to take the lead in international affairs.”
“Or has China now become powerful enough that it should take a leading role?” Yuan asked. “I think the jury is still out on
that regard.”
Deng Xiaoping’s admonishments in the ’80s to his colleagues to observe developments soberly, meet challenges calmly,
conceal China’s capacities and never claim leadership has been an imperative that China has followed, more or less, for two
decades, said Richard Baum, one of UCLA’s foremost scholars on China and a professor of political science.
“There’s a big debate in China today about whether this is the time to start revising that,” Baum said. “China has been
seeking safety in multilateralism for well over a decade now, and not taking the lead. The question of whether a rising China
has the same need to conceal capacity … that’s a big issue for the next generation of leaders.”
Baum added that the polarization that has been pulling China in opposite directions on this question was palpable at a
Beijing forum he attended in 2005, along with China’s top international theorists and strategic thinkers.
Participants “were buzzing about this term, ‘responsible stakeholder,” and how seriously to take it,” Baum said. Some of the
Chinese at the forum felt it was an extension of American neocolonialism and “an affront to Chinese national pride and
dignity to be told they should be carrying the water for the international community by having a responsible stake in
somebody else’s game.”
Others took the term very seriously as a “new opening for a possible convergence of U.S. and Chinese strategic thinking,”
Baum said. In the end, he recalled, the dominant view among the Chinese was to give the concept a try and see what the
Americans really have in mind. “It was, ‘If they (the Americans) just want us to be a spear carrier for them, no, thank you. But
let’s look and see what the stakes in the system are.’”
China has shown that it is willing to engage responsibly in international issues, Baum noted. In its criticism of North Korea’s
nuclear weapons testing, China “certainly acted as if they have a stake in the denuclearization of Korea. They may not have
acted as strongly or decisively as we would have liked them to act, but they certainly were on the right side of that issue —
tentatively, meekly to be sure — but on the right side.”
Similarly with their membership in the World Trade Organization, China has pledged to live by its rules, Baum said. And with
respect to President Hu Jintao’s presence at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, D.C., in April, “they had to be
dragged kicking and screaming into the talks with Washington,” Baum said. “But they showed up and at least in principle
supported the United Nations Security Council resolutions.”
“I would give them good marks on being a responsible stakeholder so far,” said Baum, “although with an asterisk: There are
some issues that are not amenable to shared stakeholding at this point.”
The current conflict over North Korea’s attack on a South Korean ship may fall in that category. So far, Baum said, China
has basically ducked and hedged.
“China probably will condemn North Korea,” said Yuan, by going along with a UN Security Council statement of
condemnation. But China will weigh heavily the possibility that taking action could further worsen the situation and
destabilize the Korean peninsula.
Richard Rosecrance, a former director of the UCLA Burkle Center who now teaches at the John F. Kennedy School of
Government at Harvard, maintained that this is a clear case where North Korea’s actions should be condemned. But China,
in the past, has “dropped the ball,” he said, in not playing a very important role as the host of the six-party talks on the North
Korean nuclear issue and in not facilitating bilateral talks between the U.S. and North Korea.
Another panel that included retired Gen. Wesley Clark, who served as NATO’s Supreme Allied Commander in Europe and is
currently a senior fellow at the Burkle Center, pondered the question of what the U.S. can do to shape China’s engagement.
In dealing with China, Clark said the U.S. must recognize that there has been a shift in the balance of power between the
two governments. “When an American leader goes to Beijing and says, ‘Let’s talk,’ it’s a different Beijing and a different
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balance than existed even two or three years ago,” he said. “I think President Obama knows it, and I’m certain the Chinese
know it. I think we have a new relationship with China, whether it’s advertised as such or not.”
If we ask China, for example, “Are you a responsible stakeholder?” then you have to ask whether the U.S. is behaving
likewise, Clark said. “You have to ask how is it we allowed [in the case of the global financial crisis] the perpetuation of
fraudulent contracts, peddled them to the rest of the world, used leverage, destabilized currencies, almost brought down
banks and ended up with our major export in debt? … Was that a position for a responsible stakeholder?”
The public’s perception of a shift in the balance of power, the scholars noted, was picked up last year by a Pew Research
Center survey that showed that 41 percent of the American public believes the U.S. plays a less important, less powerful role
as a world leader than it did a decade ago, while 44 percent believe China is now the top global economic power. In reality,
however, scholars at the conference predicted that it will take two or three decades, or more, for China to catch up with
Americans economically.
In the end, the U.S. only has itself to blame for this shift of balance, Clark said. “If our economy is relying on Chinese
demand to stimulate it and relying on Chinese purchases of American debt to keep it going, then we’ve put ourselves in a
position where we don’t have the same degree of bargaining power” that a comparison of economic standards and military
might suggests.
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press Writer
After 15 years, Arab nations finally won agreement from the United States and the other nuclear powers to take the
first step toward banning nuclear weapons from the Middle East. Now the next move is Israel's.
But the Israeli government rejected the resolution Saturday, calling it "deeply flawed and hypocritical."
Although the U.S. joined the 188 other member nations of the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty on Friday in giving a
green light to a conference in 2012 "on the establishment of a Middle East zone free of nuclear weapons and all other
weapons of mass destruction," senior U.S. officials appeared to backtrack afterward, setting several conditions for
the talks to go ahead.
Taking the toughest line, U.S. National Security Adviser Gen. James Jones said in a statement Friday night that the
United States has "serious reservations" about the 2012 conference and believes Mideast peace and full compliance
by all countries in the region to their arms control and nonproliferation obligations "are essential precursors" of a
WMD-free zone. The compliance demand appeared to be aimed at Iran, which the U.S. believes is pursuing a nuclear
weapons program despite Tehran's claims its only goal is nuclear power.
Jones also strongly defended longtime U.S. ally Israel, which was singled out for not being a member of the NPT. He
said the United States "deplores" the naming of Israel which puts prospects for the 2012 conference "in doubt." As a
co-sponsor of the conference, Jones said the United States will ensure that it will only takes place "if and when all
countries feel confident that they can attend."
Israel, which has not signed the NPT, said due to the "distorted nature" of the resolution, it would not take part in its
implementation.
"It singles out Israel, the Middle East's only true democracy and the only country threatened with annihilation. Yet the
terrorist regime in Iran, which is racing to develop nuclear weapons and which openly threatens to wipe Israel off the
map, is not even mentioned in the resolution," Israel's government said in its statement.
It said the resolution ignores "the real threats" facing the Middle East and "not only fails to advance regional security
but actually sets it back."
The Arab proposal for a WMD-free zone — to pressure Israel to give up its undeclared arsenal of perhaps 80 nuclear
warheads — was endorsed by the 1995 NPT conference but never acted on. At this month's NPT review, a
conference to begin talks on a nuclear-free Mideast was considered by many delegates as "the make-or-break issue,"
and agreement on the 2012 meeting was widely welcomed after the 28-page final declaration was approved by
consensus.
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But the U.S. reaction raised questions and doubts about whether Israel, Iran and other countries in the Mideast will
even hold a meeting in two years.
Several delegates suggested that earlier comments by U.S. Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher and President
Barack Obama's coordinator for weapons of mass destruction, Gary Samore, warning about the difficulties of holding
a conference and persuading Israel to attend may have been sparked by the upcoming visit of Israel's Prime Minister
Benjamin Netanyahu to the White House on Tuesday.
Egypt's U.N. Ambassador Maged Abdelaziz, speaking for the 118-nation Nonaligned Movement of mainly developing
countries, said that during the negotiations there was "a little bit of disagreement" on mentioning Israel.
But he said NAM members thought that since the document issued at the end of the 2000 NPT review conference
mentioned the need for Israel to join the treaty and subject its nuclear capabilities to International Atomic Energy
Agency safeguards there was "no going back on that commitment" and Israel had to be mentioned in the 2010
document as well.
Iran had loomed as a potential spoiler that would block consensus at this conference, and Iran and Syria dissented
loudly on various points in the final hours, but no objections were raised in the concluding session.
Facing possible new U.N. sanctions because of its refusal to suspend uranium enrichment and enter negotiations on
its nuclear program, the Iranians had sought to turn the spotlight instead on the big nuclear powers, demanding the
final document call for speedier disarmament moves.
Iran's chief delegate Ali Asghar Soltanieh lamented that the deadline of 2025 sought by NAM for complete
disarmament was not included in the final document. Nonetheless, Soltanieh called "the limited measures" in the
agreement "a step forward."
Jones, the U.S. National Security Adviser, said the failure of the resolution to mention Iran, which he said poses the
greatest threat of nuclear proliferation in the region, is "deplorable."
Iran's Soltanieh said the Americans should "think twice" before making such statements. "This was not the right
reaction to a positive response, positive measure by our delegation joining the consensus," he said.
According to the final document, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and the co-sponsors of the 1995 Mideast
resolution — the U.S., Russia and Britain — will now appoint a "facilitator" to conduct consultations in preparation for
the 2012 conference.
Jones said the United States "will insist that the conference operate only by consensus by the regional countries."
Under the 1970 nonproliferation treaty, nations without nuclear weapons committed not to acquire them; those with
them committed to move toward their elimination; and all endorsed everyone's right to develop peaceful nuclear
energy.
The last NPT conference, in 2005, failed to adopt a consensus declaration. In sharp contrast, a final declaration was
not only adopted this year but for the first time it laid out complex action plans for all three of the treaty's "pillars" —
nonproliferation, disarmament and peaceful nuclear energy.
Under its action plan, the five recognized nuclear-weapon states — the United States, Russia, Britain, France and
China — commit to speed up arms reductions, take other steps to diminish the importance of atomic weapons, and
report back on progress by 2014. The plan also has 24 steps to promote nonproliferation including making the treaty
universal to include Israel, Pakistan India and North Korea, all of which have or are suspected of having nuclear
arsenals.
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