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*** 1-Aug-16 World View -- Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation

This morning's key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com
  • Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation
  • India and Saudi Arabia move to warm relations with each other

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**** Migrant Indian workers in Saudi Arabia face starvation
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India's Consulate in Jeddah distributes food to starving migrant workers on Sunday (The Hindu)

About 10,000 migrant workers from India are starving and living in
inhumane conditions in Saudi Arabia because they've received no pay
for seven months and are unable to buy food. Many have lost their
jobs, while others are continuing to work but are unpaid nonetheless.

Most are construction workers, but many large construction projects
have been canceled or cut back by the Saudi government because
sharply falling oil prices have caused a financial crisis in
the Saudi kingdom.

India's foreign minister Sushma Swaraj issued a statement:

> [indent]<QUOTE>"Large number of Indians have lost their jobs in Saudi
> Arabia and Kuwait. The employers have not paid wages, closed down
> their factories. The number of Indian workers facing food crisis
> in Saudi Arabia is over ten thousand."<END QUOTE>
[/indent]

Over the weekend, India's Embassy in Riyadh and its Consulate in
Jeddah distributed 15,475 kg of food to Indian migrants in five labor
camps in cities across Saudi Arabia over the weekend, to keep them
from starving. There are plans to bring thousands of these workers
back to India by the end of August.

There are about 3 million Indians living and working in Saudi Arabia,
most of them as blue-collar workers.

Separately, the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA)
has suspended the rights of Saudi companies to hire Filipino workers.
More than 11,000 overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) in Saudi Arabia have
been laid off and are not receiving salaries. Sky News and The Hindu and Manila Bulletin

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**** India and Saudi Arabia move to warm relations with each other
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India's Minister of State for External Affairs V K Singh will travel
to Saudi Arabia to assess this week to assess the severity of the food
crisis facing the jobless migrants from India. He'll meet with Saudi
officials, and the meetings are expected to be cordial, despite the
difficulty of the situation.

Recently, Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud gave
India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi a very warm welcome when he came
to visit in April. Modi and the Saudis signed five new bilateral
agreements to improve relations, covering intelligence sharing on
terrorism financing, increasing private investment and enhancing
defense cooperation.

India has to juggle several partnerships in the Mideast, including
relationships with the Gulf Cooperation Council countries, Iran, and
Israel. India receives 58% of its oil imports and 88% of
its liquefied natural gas imports from the Mideast. There are
7.3 million migrant Indians working in the region, and they sent
over $36 billion in remittances back to their families in India
in 2015.

The relationship is important to Saudi Arabia as well. India has huge
Muslim populations, both Sunni and Shia, making Saudi Arabia a major
tourist attraction. In particular, over 400,000 Indians visit Mecca
each year for the Muslim rituals (Hajj and Umrah).

There is also a political reason why Saudi and Indian relations
have been warming: Pakistan.

Saudi Arabia and Pakistan are very closely tied together, but the
Saudis are still extremely angry at Pakistan's government because
Pakistan refused to contribute any troops last year to the Saudi war
against the Houthis in Yemen. So for the Saudis, a relationship with
India is a way of saying to Pakistan that they're not the only
dance partner.

India has been at war with Pakistan several times in the last 50
years, and tensions are very high in the disputed border regions.
( "21-Jul-16 World View -- India-Pakistan tensions grow over Kashmir issue"
) So for
India, a relationship with the Saudis is a way of telling the
Pakistanis that perhaps they can't count on Saudi support after all.

There are some similar issues with Iran, but in reverse. India and
Iran have very close relations, while Saudi Arabia and Iran were close
to war earlier this year. ( "4-Jan-16 World View -- Saudi Arabia cuts diplomatic ties with Iran as violent Shia protests spread around region"
)

Regular readers know that warm relations between Saudi Arabia and
India are counter-trend, as Generational Dynamics predicts that in the
coming Clash of Civilizations world war, China, Pakistan, and the
Sunni Muslim countries will be one side, and India, Iran, the United
States and the West will be on the other side. ( "15-Jul-2015 World View -- Arab views of Iran nuclear deal"
) So the warm Saudi-India relationship
will not continue.

Readers who find this confusing should recall that Germany and Britain
were close trading partners up until World War II began. Also, Russia
and the US were enemies before and after WW II, but were allies during
the war. The way to understand this is that during "normal" times,
politicians can make whatever policies they want, even total nonsense
policies. But during a generational crisis war like WW II, when the
nation and its way of life are facing existential threats, then
policies must be chosen that guarantee the survival of the nation,
even if it means reversing every policy that prevailed before the war.
Indian Express and Al Monitor (3-Apr) and Brookings (1-Apr)


KEYS: Generational Dynamics, India, Saudi Arabia, Philippines,
Salman bin Abdulaziz al Saud, Narendra Modi, Sushma Swaraj,
Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, China

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