Topic: Security Cooperation in East Asia
Country: India
Delegate Name: Jimmy Braun
School: Forest Hills Eastern High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All India position papers GLIMUN 2017 committees
As a major trading partner throughout the South East Asia region, India sees the stability of the East Asian region as a crucial factor in the economic stability of not only the region, but the world. The area is crucial for the exports of four out of the ten highest exporting countries in the world (by total exports according to the CIA World Factbook: China, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong). The muscular displays of power by China are a visible threat to stability, and serve as a grave warning of their new imperialist growth for principles that endanger the free world. The same can be said for the DPRK, a country which, like china, flexes its muscles in the name of values that are frowned upon by the United Nations. Japan, as a nation which has shown its willingness to uphold the values of the free world, as seen in its recent low number of UN violations in all catagories, should end its military pacifism.
Four of India's top ten trading partners are located in the region, giving the security of this region top priority for the economic stability of our country. As one of the leading military powers in the Asian-Pacific region, India is not afraid to take whatever means necessary to secure security in the region. Recently, India moved warships to the Malacca Straits, a region that is crucial to China’s oil imports (64% according to the International Energy Agency). This move was to regulate, as well as protect one of the most heavily trafficked region in the South China Sea. India has also upheld the principles and code set forth by the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency). We frown upon the DPRK’s brash, unpredictable, and unstopped actions, especially those which involve their undisciplined nuclear program. No matter the resolution passed by the General Assembly condemning the DPRK’s creation and use of nuclear missiles, the nation has not slowed down in their military program. This gives our committee the responsibility to create a solution which can hinder the growth of their nuclear arms.
Healthy relations are in the interests of all countries in the United Nations, and a resolution that continues to allow China to dominate the region is one that cannot be tolerated. Seeing the little impact past resolutions have had on them, we favor a resolution that enacts economic sanctions on China. India would also pushes for a resolution which recognizes the abandonment of pacifism for Japan, a country who has redeemed itself since World War Two and shows its willingness to fight for the principles of the free world. The DPRK, as a threat to these principles of freedom, should be imposed with new economic sanctions, and countries should be forbidden to provide economic aid, until the DPRK submits to recognizing and following international nuclear guidelines, which include ending its missile program.
