{"id":31809,"date":"2018-10-29T11:22:29","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:52:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31809"},"modified":"2018-10-29T11:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T05:52:29","slug":"pm-calls-protectionism-as-dangerous-as-terrorism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-calls-protectionism-as-dangerous-as-terrorism\/","title":{"rendered":"PM calls protectionism as dangerous as terrorism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><u><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/pm-calls-protectionism-as-dangerous-as-terrorism\/article22500864.ece\">PM calls protectionism as dangerous as terrorism<\/a><\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sending out a strong message against protectionism and inward-focused economic policies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said such tendencies can be as dangerous as terrorism and climate change as he pitched for creating a \u201cheaven of freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>At World Economic Forum\u2019s annual summit in Davos, he decries new trade barriers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Modi, who became the first Indian Prime Minister to address the World Economic Forum\u2019s annual\u00a0summit\u00a0here in two decades, also talked terrorism, a major grave concern facing the world.<\/li>\n<li>What was worse was people saying there was a difference between \u2018good\u2019 and \u2018bad\u2019 terror. It was painful to see some youngsters getting radicalised, he said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>India as an investment destination<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an almost hour-long speech in Hindi, he sought to hard sell India as an investment destination, saying those wanting wealth with wellness and peace with prosperity should come to the country.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u2018Heaven of freedom\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet us create a \u2018heaven of freedom\u2019, where there is cooperation and not division, fractures,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Protectionism<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Protectionism is rearing its ugly head and there is risk of new tariff and non-tariff barriers coming up, the Prime Minister said, as he mentioned that division was not the solution to this problem of anti-globalisation.<\/li>\n<li>While noting that in an interconnected world, globalisation was losing its lustre, he wondered, \u201cDo global organisations created after the Second World War really reflect the aspirations and dreams of mankind today? With respect to the developing countries there is a very big gap.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PM calls protectionism as dangerous as terrorism Context Sending out a strong message against protectionism and inward-focused economic policies, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said such tendencies can be as dangerous as terrorism and climate change as he pitched for creating a \u201cheaven of freedom.\u201d At World Economic Forum\u2019s annual summit in Davos, he&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/pm-calls-protectionism-as-dangerous-as-terrorism\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">PM calls protectionism as dangerous as terrorism<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704930254},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}