In first speech at UNSC, EAM Jaishankar slams China for covering up for Pakistan on terrorism In first speech at UNSC, EAM Jaishankar slams China for covering up for Pakistan on terrorism
Union Minister of External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar on Tuesday indirectly slammed both China and Pakistan on terrorism during his address at the UNSC meeting. Asking UNSC members to not make false distinctions of good terrorists and bad terrorists , he said that the countries that cover up for such countries are as culpable.
S Jaishankar
Union Minister of External Affairs Dr S Jaishankar on Tuesday indirectly slammed both China and Pakistan on terrorism during his address at the UNSC meeting. Asking UNSC members to not make false distinctions of “good terrorists” and “bad terrorists”, he said that the countries that cover up for such countries are as culpable.
In 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic spread across the world and states struggled to contain the economic fallout of shutting down cities, social media became a petri dish of social commentary, and perhaps more importantly, a driving platform for governments to not only communicate domestically, but internationally as well, while simultaneously facing increasing challenges and erosion of trust from populations. While platforms face the uphill challenge of extremist actors, often of the non-state variety, using the Internet to propagate and recruit, the other side of this, which is governments, and their use of social media also requires to be placed under the spotlight.