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{an american crisis }
POR: JAIRO ROMERO - DISEC
DISEC became a very interesting committee today, even if it was the last
day of GLCMUN X. It began with a crisis involving the use of American
UAV’s in Chinese territory, in which the United States with the support of
Israel launched a large amount of UAV’s into Chinese territory. This was a
considered a relatively monumental problem based on the fact that each
UAV had the ability to engage targets, such as a hacker being search by the
United States government or a Chinese civilian, and some of chemical
bases in China could be used for weapon manufacturing.
The debate began with the different nations stating their position in
regard to the actions stated in the crisis. Pakistan declared the United
States’ actions of entering a foreign territory without permission
completely unacceptable, and added that the United States should be
punished for such belligerent actions.
On the other hand, countries such as Germany and the United Kingdom
supported the actions of the United States, and expressed through well
put-together arguments that the UAV attacks in China were beneficial for
American sovereignty.
The delegate of China argued that the U.S. was creating fear between
nations and civilians, and encouraged the rest of the delegations to form a
block against the United States because it was the center of the problem
and a self-righteous nation that believed to be the king of the world. This
argument offended delegations such as those of the United States and the
United Kingdom, who both tried to disprove the arguments of the delegate
of China, and in which the delegate of the United States claimed that “The
UAV’s are for protection”.
Making a solid comeback, China’s delegate presented a Washington post
publication, which stated that the United States was the nation with most
human rights violations in foreign countries and that the United States did
not have the right to protect civilians of other countries if they could not
even protect their own people. After this intervention, the delegate of the
United States seemed to have no valid arguments left and preferred to
keep his silence.
During the debate, some delegations didn’t participate in the or contribute
in any notable way. For example, the delegation of Israel argued that the
actions of the United States where unacceptable, while ignoring the fact
that Israel had also launched a UAV in Chinese territory, causing his
argument to be contradictory and unfocused. The delegation of South
Korea also provided confusing information to the debate by giving a
positive and peaceful attitude that would not be considered characteristic
of South Korea.
The debate finished off well, showing the different abilities of the
committee in regard to arguing the interesting topic of the use of UAV’s in
foreign territory. I would like to thank the delegates present for making
my days at GLCMUN X so interesting. Overall, it was a pleasure for me to
be the press delegate of DISEC.