Washington Examiner: State Department’s model for Somaliland should be Taiwan, not Kurdistan

[Itsnotthateasy]

State Department’s model for Somaliland should be Taiwan, not Kurdistan

The US institute in Taiwan is a better template for US diplomatic representation in Somaliland.

www.washingtonexaminer.com

The Congressionally-mandated State Department policy review for Somaliland is well underway. It is long overdue. For decades, the State Department’s approach to Somalia was both ineffective and divorced from reality. As Somaliland grew its democracy, ambassadors like Donald Yamamoto and Larry André, Jr., undercut it by enforcing a “One Somalia” policy whose parameters represented more their personal biases than any written State Department directives. As a result, the United States dumped billions of dollars into the world’s most corrupt government.

At a minimum, the State Department will likely agree to open a consulate in Hargeisa. This makes sense on one level; Somaliland and Somalia are as different from each other as the United States and Honduras or Indonesia and New Guinea.

Rather, a better model for American diplomats in Hargeisa might be the American Institute in Taiwan, a structure created to assuage Chinese diplomatic sensitivities while still enabling the United States a diplomatic presence in Taipei. Diplomats theoretically retire from the State Department before their Taipei posting, and then rejoin with full advancement and seniority at its conclusion. The State Department’s support for the American Institute model recognizes that Taiwan is both a democracy and distinct from the autocracy next door.

Short of immediately recognizing Somaliland’s independence, the State Department’s best option is clear: The American Institute in Somaliland, modeled after its successful policy in Taiwan.

 

[NidarNidar]

Taiwan is China so stuck in a loophole, its already FMs, work with PL and get that coon hsm out of office.

 

[Itsnotthateasy]

Taiwan is China so stuck in a loophole, its already FMs, work with PL and get that coon hsm out of office.

1. Taiwan is not China.
2. Somaliland is not an FMS or a region of Ethiopia for that matter. Deals with Puntland on the border region don't equate to what you are suggesting.
3. What is wrong with HSM? He's a totally normal FGS president. FGS is just a failed institution by it's design and nature. You guys are stuck in a loop of blaming individuals for structural problems.

Anyway enough talk about failed Somalia, this is about Somaliland transition to full recogntion.

 

[Garaad Awal]

Taiwan is China so stuck in a loophole, its already FMs, work with PL and get that coon hsm out of office.

Aren’t you Ethiopian? Worry about Ethiopian affairs instead of what SL should do

 

[Garaad Awal]

Somaliland should first fix its military and security on the frontiers & then focus on economic development. Those two things are more important than recognition. Once we become developed and wealthy enough, the world will come to our side. Untill then it’s time to work smart and hard once the Buddhist administration is gone.

 

[Jaffar]

Actually it’s very easy for for Somaliland to get recognition all they have to do is elect a dir as president and he will sign off on the independence. Similar how a Tigrinya person signed off the independence of Eritrea inside Ethiopia. Thats the easiest way if Somaliland was smart they would sponsor invest in a dir president of Somalia . And all he will do is sign off on independence. Its a done deal recognition will never come from the west or the Arabs or the uk they hate uniatral secession the other way is doing the bidding via aipac i see they are trying that wil ted cruz but the Israelis aren’t convinced they don’t want to upset the region and the Egyptians remember Egypt hates Somaliland more then hawiye hates Somaliland and Israel doesn’t want to hurt the feelings of Egypt in all of this . Egypt is already losing the Nile war this would be also a slap on their face .

 

[Garaad Awal]

Actually it’s very easy for for Somaliland to get recognition all they have to do is elect a dir as president

lol. Double digit political iq takes

 

[Jaffar]

U don’t think it’s easier to get a letter of recognition from a sitting president . Remember somalia has no real goverment no institution no constitution nothing really never understood why the Hargeisa elites never tried it . I don’t mind talking to them the talks are useless they will never sign anything with these sort of talks but come with a real plan and play real politics create ur own faction inside somalia and then use them for ur bidding . I used to think Isaaq were smarter than this . Now all you do is hold demonstrations in London and Washington and rehash old points we have case we have colonial treaties bla bla on x no one cares about that

 

[Garaad Awal]

U don’t think it’s easier to get a letter of recognition from a sitting president . Remember somalia has no real goverment no institution no constitution nothing really never understood why the Hargeisa elites never tried it . I don’t mind talking to them the talks are useless they will never sign anything with these sort of talks but come with a real plan and play real politics create ur own faction inside somalia and then use them for ur bidding . I used to think Isaaq were smarter than this . Now all you do is hold demonstrations in London and Washington and rehash old points we have case we have colonial treaties bla bla on x no one cares about that

I don’t care about protests. Only war and economic development can bring my people to greatness. Somalians & Jabartis only understand fear. Isaaq elite are to naive to believe there can be dialogue with Hawiye & Jabarti. With war SL can instill fear/deterence in the Jabarti and with economic development SL can prove to the world we shouldn’t stuck with the barbarians in Xamar.
Diplomacy doesn’t mean shit if you can’t establish the facts on the ground. We will leave the Somalians to run around the world trying to fool people that they rule SL

 

[Jaffar]

I don’t disagree with you on that . But you have to play politics the mou was something genius for example u have to think outside the box if you want things done . Economy and military strength is everything if you create political reality that it’s self is political legitimacy . But you need to outdo your self the goverment of Mogadishu wil claim u will take ur land money funding . If you don’t do anything about it they have created a mamuul in laascanood the Same guys who can’t fight shabaab hamza visited laascanood

 

[NidarNidar]

Aren’t you Ethiopian? Worry about Ethiopian affairs instead of what SL should do

I'm from Awdal, and aren't you the one crying not that long ago that about Cirro, and wishing SL be doomed. Not that long ago your senile uncle was going to try to sell Somali Red Sea access to your distant cousins.