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Martin Jahn ministrem zahraničí ČR?

Jako by se například Martin Jahn (nebo teda někdo ještě zkušenější v mezinárodním byznysu) stal v ČR ministrem zahraničí. K něčemu takovému se schyluje v USA, kde bude šéf ropného gigantu ExxonMobil Rex Tillerson zřejmě nominován Trumpem na takovou pozici. Kromě emocí ohledně jeho vazeb na Putina ale má celkem velké zastánce zahraničněpolitického establishmentu GOP.

"The Trump team is planning an aggressive public relations campaign to win confirmation for Tillerson and dispel what it sees as a false narrative about his ties to Russia, a person involved in the transition said. Former secretaries of state Condoleezza Rice and James Baker are planning to go public Tuesday morning with their support for Tillerson, as is former defense secretary Robert Gates. Former vice president Richard B. Cheney also is supportive and may advocate for his confirmation.

Gates was the first person to raise Tillerson as a secretary of state possibility with Trump during a meeting at Trump Tower, the transition official added. Trump did not know much about Tillerson but started chewing over the idea. He invited Tillerson for a meeting and the two global dealmakers hit it off. They recognized similarities in each other, and the more they talked, the more they liked each other, the transition official said.

Rice, who has served on the board of Chevron, then became a strong advocate for Tillerson. She and Trump spoke about Tillerson by phone Monday as Trump made his final decision."

Jahn by asi musel ještě trochu vystoupat. Bývalý šéf Czechinvestu a místopředseda vlády pro ekonomiku zahájil kariéru jako člen představenstva Škody Auto pro oblast personalistiky, později přešel na místo výkonného ředitele Volkswagen Group v Rusku. Letos na podzim se přesunul z pozice šéfa pro prodej firemním flotilám na místo výkonného viceprezidenta pro prodej a marketing Volkswagenu v severní Číně.

No, má navíc zkušenosti z české vlády. To prý Tillerson nemá vůbec.

Rekalibrace americko-čínských vztahů?

Zajímavé články ve WashPost zde a zde týkající se překvapivého telefonního hovoru Trumpa a taiwanské prezidentky, které odporují desítkám let starému protokolu:

Meanwhile, John Bolton, a Trump ally and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, visited Trump Tower in New York for undisclosed reasons on Friday, according to Politico. 

He wrote in a Wall Street Journal article in January that the United States should consider playing the “Taiwan card” against China, to force it to abandon its South China Sea claims. 

“If Beijing isn’t willing to back down, America has a diplomatic ladder of escalation that would compel Beijing’s attention,” he wrote, suggesting receiving Taiwanese diplomats officially at the State Department, upgrading the status of U.S. representation in Taipei to an official diplomatic mission, inviting Taiwan’s president to travel in an official capacity to the United States and ultimately possibly restoring full diplomatic recognition.

Trochu se to vyhrocuje (NYT):

China warned President-elect Donald J. Trump on Monday that he was risking a confrontation over Taiwan, even as Mr. Trump broadened the dispute with new messages on Twitter challenging Beijing’s trade policies and military activities in the South China Sea. 

For his part, Mr. Trump seemed to take umbrage at the idea that he needed China’s approval to speak with Ms. Tsai. In two posts on Twitter, he wrote: “Did China ask us if it was O.K. to devalue their currency (making it hard for our companies to compete), heavily tax our products going into their country (the U.S. doesn’t tax them) or to build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea? I don’t think so!”

The first 100 days

This may be the best ad of the election so far

Prý jedna z nejlepších politických reklam letošní volební sezony v USA. Demokrat Jason Kander obhajuje "backround checks" a republikánského oponenta, který zpochybnil jeho věrnost 2. dodatku Ústavy, vyzval ke stejnému kousku, jaký předvádí na videu.

Eastern Europe Strikes Back

"Now the script is completely reversed. Those voters who McCain fought so hard for in 2008 are still out there. They normally would be very inclined to vote for someone like Trump – on paper, they look just like his core supporters – but Putin’s clear preference for him over Clinton (combined with Trump’s naiveté on all things Russia) gives them great pause."

"“In and around Cleveland, Akron, Toledo, Detroit and all throughout Wisconsin, you’re talking about voters with family in Poland, the Baltics, Ukraine and the Czech Republic,” said Weaver. “These voters are key to any narrow path that Trump has left.”"

"Trump alarms Americans of Eastern European ancestry for many reasons.

Among them:

• He has suggested that America will only conditionally live up to its obligations under the NATO charter and questioned the value of the alliance.
• He’s said he’ll look into whether Putin should be allowed to keep Crimea, which he annexed with complete disregard for international law. “Having a good relationship with Russia is a good thing, not a bad thing,” he said this month.
• Just three weeks ago, Trump pleaded directly with the Russian government to find and release tens of thousands of Clinton’s private emails. Asked whether Russian espionage into the former secretary of state’s correspondence would concern him, he replied: “No, it gives me no pause.”
• Trump’s campaign chairman until last Friday, Paul Manafort, orchestrated the political comeback of Putin ally Viktor Yanukovych in Ukraine and is closely linked with other Putin cronies.
• At the Republican National Convention last month, the Trump campaign stripped the party platform of language calling for the U.S. to provide lethal weapons to Ukraine to resist Russian belligerence."

Via WashPost.

Soudní novinky 26/16 (Nabito! OMT, imigrace, afirmativní akce)

• BVG: Constitutional Complaints and Organstreit Proceedings Against the OMT Programme of the European Central Bank Unsuccessful. 
• The Supreme Court ruled 4 to 3 that the tobacco company could not be sued for money-laundering by the European Union under an American racketeering law.
• Eszter Polgári: The Hungarian Constitutional Court’s case with the ECHR: an ambivalent relationship.
• Maďarský ústavní soud odmítl stížnosti na referendum o kvotách. 
• Linda Greenhouse (NYT): The Supreme Court’s Post-Scalia Term.
• Marko Milanovic: Grand Chamber Judgment in Al-Dulimi v. Switzerland.("This is the latest in a long and complex line of cases dealing with the negative human rights impact of sanctions mandated by the UN Security Council, raising inter alia the legal effects of the supremacy clause in Article 103 of the UN Charter.")
• NYTimes: Supreme Court Tie Blocks Obama Immigration Plan ("The 4-4 tie dealt a sharp blow to an ambitious program that the president had hoped would become one of his central legacies.")
• Ilya Somin: "Today’s Supreme Court decision upholding racial preferences in admissions at the University of Texas (UT) has potentially far-reaching implications. It might well license extensive racial discrimination in college admissions policies."
• What Do This Week’s Supreme Court Decisions Mean for Immigration and Affirmative Action? 

Soudní novinky 25/16 (Anal examinations are legal... at least in Kenya)

• Oregon Judge Allows Resident to Change Sex to Non-binary. 
• A Kenyan court has ruled that the use of anal examinations are legal after two men accused of being homosexuals were subjected to the tests.
• NYTimes: Federal Judge Tosses Texas’ Lawsuit to Bar Syrian Refugees ("A federal judge in Dallas ruled Texas has no legal merit to sue the Obama administration over the resettlement of Syrian refugees in the state.")

Soudní novinky 24/16 (France v Uber)

• Začneme něčím zásadnějším: Judge gives farmer time to find ‘nice woman’ before driving ban.
• Opět zajímavá (nejen) právnická otázka v NYT Room for Debate: Should an Unpopular Sentence in the Stanford Rape Case Cost a Judge His Job?
• French court fines Uber, execs for illegal taxi service. ("A French court fined Uber Technologies [UBER.UL] 800,000 euros ($907,000) on Thursday for running an illegal taxi service with non-professional drivers and slapped smaller fines on two of its executives in the first such criminal case in Europe.")
• The Turkish Constitutional Court rejected petitions by opposition lawmakers seeking to lift immunity for members of Parliament. 
• "The Indian Supreme Court directed the central government to formulate a national policy for proper rehabilitation of rape survivors." (ICON)
• "Ruling that prosecutors in Georgia violated the Constitution by striking every black prospective juror in a death penalty case against a black defendant, the Court by a majority of 7 to 1 reversed the order of the Georgia Supreme Court and held that the prosecutors of the State were motivated in substantial part by race when they struck the jurors from the jury 30 years ago. The Court further concluded, ‘considering all of the circumstantial evidence that bears upon the issue of racial animosity, we are left with the firm conviction that the strikes of the two jurors were motivated in substantial part by discriminatory intent’.

NATO vs. Rusko

Viz Marek Ženíšek.