The world is changing in a big way. The mindset of the U.S President-elect Donald Trump is beginning to show its propensities, proclivities, preferences, inclinations or leanings — whatever you may call them. It was speculated that Donald Trump might turn out to be less rigid in his practice of the dangerous ideas that he had been churning out during his election campaign. He had talked about dealing with the Muslim treat with an iron hand. Later on he modified his approach on the ‘Islamic issue’. But his call to say goodbye to One –China policy seems not to have been abandoned. If he had gone for picking Mit Romney or General Petraeus as America’s next Secretary of State, one would have thought Trump would de-radicalise his approach to the global issues. But finally he has made his pick. The Chief Executive Officer of Exxon Mobile is going to be the successor to John Kerry. In Pakistan no one may have yet heard of Rex Tillerson, but very soon he would be the second most talked-about U.S name in the world—just behind his boss in the White House.
Tillerson is head of a global oil giant in a world that is going to soon touch new heights in globalization. Tillerson is known for his friendship with Russia’s Putin. And quite clearly this friendship is based on business interests (just like the Mian-Modi friendship).
Tillerson is unlikely not to set off alarm-bells in the world by trying to pitch Taiwan against the Mainland China. How would China respond? And where will Pakistan find itself now that China-PaK Economic Corridor has intertwined the destinies of the two old friends?
Can Pakistan afford not to have a Foreign Minister and a Foreign Policy in these dangerous times? Sartaj Aziz is an aged clerk. And Tariq Fatmi is no Agha Shahi.
As for Mian Sahib himself, he can do business with even Satan. Running the Foreign Policy of a country strategically as important as Pakistan is not his area of excellence. Who is going to tell MNS: Give Pakistan A Chance?
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