{"id":16697,"date":"2022-06-29T08:10:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T08:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/coping-with-the-global-challenge-against-the-status-quo"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:10:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T10:10:04","slug":"coping-with-the-global-challenge-against-the-status-quo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/lesotho\/all-news\/coping-with-the-global-challenge-against-the-status-quo","title":{"rendered":"Coping with the Global Challenge against the Status Quo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Lesotho. <\/strong><\/span>We\u2019ve shown ourselves to be nimble-footed enough to catch opportunities even in areas in which we had no perceptible international edge.<\/b>
\nThe base is here.
\nIt needs to be elaborated upon The new American President, Mr Donald Trump, has issued a number of unsettling executive orders since assuming office. He has also questioned America\u2019s relations with other countries, both as concerns trade and security arrangements in place.
\nHis new approach to running America is meeting with opposition not only from the Republican Party to which he \u201cbelongs\u201d. The courts have, on constitutional grounds, overturned his immigration ban order, but he insists he will take it through.
\nHis stand on international policy is proving unsettling for long-standing trade and international partners of the US \u2013 Europe, Canada, Mexico, Japan, ASEAN, China.<\/p>\n

Despite all this, he is carrying on just the same. He says that he wants to make America safe from unwanted foreign destabilising intrusions. He also says he is protecting American jobs by keeping off unfair competition from other countries.<\/p>\n

He wants energy independence for America and has therefore rolled back the previous administration\u2019s global climate deal. Fossil fuel will be back. To accusations of destabilising the existing international order, his answer is that he is carrying out his campaign promises. This is what the people who voted for him want. He is delivering on that.<\/p>\n

Those who voted for him asked: what has the global elite delivered for the sustained improvement of the peoples\u2019 lives across the board? Has security been strengthened in each country? Has the fruit of growth been fairly distributed? When the economy performed in low key, after the onset of the crisis of 2007-08, to whom was this burden shifted the most, the 99% or the1%? They answer: to the working class.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why they voted against the continuation of the status quo. In the words of Donald Trump\u2019s chief strategic adviser, Mr Steve Bannon, America doesn\u2019t want to see itself anymore merely \u201cas an economy in some global marketplace with open borders\u201d.
\nAmerica will not play anymore the role of a global centre of power if its jobs are taken away by other countries, if its elites enrich themselves exclusively at workers\u2019 costs or if that means welcoming outsiders with unacceptable private cultures within its territory who risk destabilising its social order.<\/p>\n

Consequences<\/b>
\nIt is difficult to guess where exactly the new American president\u2019s policies will lead to. Many in the media predict that the situation will become chaotic and unmanageable eventually since there will no longer be a credible single centre of power to hold the world together after the US has relinquished its global role.
\nAnother guess is that walls of economic isolationism raised by countries such as the US will shrink global production and hence put at greater risk vulnerable poor people the world over.<\/p>\n

If we look at the brighter side of the picture, a re-configuration of the world around new centres of economic and political power is not impossible. Countries from both the developed West and emerging nations which have been operating in a globally interconnected framework, have experienced the advantages of working together.<\/p>\n

If they coalesce, a multipolar world might deliver more balanced outcomes than a more-or-less unipolar world has done so far. Building trust in any new system is key. The global trading system could therefore seek to uphold international cooperative progress made so far.
\nSome alternative equilibrium will eventually be found, just as it happened with the \u201coutrageous\u201d departures of Mrs Margaret Thatcher from the established norm way back in 1979. We are not there yet.
\nBut a country like Mauritius, which depends on selling goods and services to the world outside, could advantageously seek to form part of likely new upcoming global blocs emerging from out of the current global disruption.
\nWe need not despair so long we don\u2019t keep losing our focus on prolonged stupid internal wrangling, with little time left to focus on the challenging evolving wider global perspective.
\nJust as a reminder. In the late 1970s, Margaret Thatcher, as newly elected British PM, set in chain a number of \u201coutrageous\u201d policy changes in the UK.
\nContrary to the received wisdom, she questioned the socialist policies political parties had practised since after World War II \u2013 the State had kept expanding, entire swathes of the economy operated under the paralysing stress of lightning strikes by unions, welfare spending was being met with rising levels of taxation across the board.<\/p>\n

She set out to undo all this and bring about a sea change in public policy. Her moves, later dubbed as Thatcherism, were iconoclastic \u2013 dismantle the welfare state, privatise the economy, squeeze trade unions out, hire-and-fire, liberalise the markets, challenge the bureaucracy in Brussels for complicating decisions and the UK to pay less to the EU\u2019s budget.
\nThis looked like an overthrow of \u2018socialist\u2019 policies governments had adopted in preceding decades. Not many, Mrs Thatcher included, understood then \u2013 as it is the case today with Donald Trump putting a premium on national security, sovereignty and economic nationalism free from excess regulations, unmindful of all other impact this may produce \u2013 the finality of this unorthodox manner of departing sharply from the established manner of doing things.<\/p>\n

For Mrs Thatcher, it was enough that she was, in her own way, championing a new spirit of assertiveness away from previous governments\u2019 single-track approach to governing.<\/p>\n

It pleased her constituency. The British were happy that they now had a distinct say in international affairs. It gradually made new openings which changed altogether the way markets interacted with each other.
\nIt brought about eventually a new era of prosperity and technological progress with international cooperation through open markets and a liberal international economic order.
\nMauritius made headway economically thanks to all of this. Tony Blair, who subsequently succeeded Mrs Thatcher and John Major as Labour PM, did not oppose those policies; he adjusted to the new ideology (e.g. , \u2018New\u2019 Labour). The world was no more based on the old order \u2013 state socialism had run its course \u2014 and it would have been rash and dangerous for him to overturn the new ideology for the sake of it.<\/p>\n

We in Mauritius have kept leaning on this international liberalised new global order to make a decent living for ourselves by exporting more goods and services to the world.<\/p>\n

Where do we go from here?<\/b><\/p>\n

From 2016, the West looks more disunited, each country ready to go its separate way. A country such as Mauritius doesn\u2019t know how it will navigate in these troubled waters.<\/p>\n

Yet, it is imperative for us to anticipate and take action to correct and adapt our trajectory so as not to lose our moorings in the troubled seas. We\u2019ve presented ourselves as a rule-of-law reliable partner to counterparts we\u2019ve engaged with in business.<\/p>\n

This has kept us in a category apart. We need to stay there, instead of keeping portraying ourselves for all the bad things on earth. We\u2019ve shown ourselves to be nimble-footed enough to catch opportunities even in areas in which we had no perceptible international edge: international finance, information and communication technology, textiles and garments.
\nThe base is here. It needs to be elaborated upon. Should we acquire sufficient depth, we should be able to build upon it the more we shift away from sterile inner confrontation and scandals.
\nThe time has come for us to move away from defensive governing of public affairs. The next stage is rather to prioritise implementation of a hands-on development strategy.
\nIt requires us to watch international developments very closely and to adapt concretely to whichever direction the changed global order will head off to, putting to rest the numerous domestic quarrels leading to the same consequence we are seeing elsewhere \u2013 reversal of the political status quo.<\/p>\n

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