May 23, 2009 Whitney High School Cerritos, California Model United Nations Specialized Committee and International Gaming Conference VII
CONFERENCE POST-MORTEM ADVANCED CRISIS—CHINESE CABINET
Chair (Chinese Cabinet) Bo Cho		Vice Chair (Chinese Cabinet) Mitchell Kim
WHAT HAPPENED IN THIS COMMITTEE?
The Advance Crisis China Cabinet was well run in both sessions with little or no problems at all during committee session. Our committee was run like a moderated caucus during the whole period of time. This proved to work very well as delegates remained in their seats causing less commotion and movement with the informal caucus while still having each delegate that wanted to speak a chance to contribute their information or ideas to the committee. As a generality there were two dominating delegates with five or six delegates who made less of a contribution and two to three delegates that did not participate in coming up with solutions at all. At the beginning, some delegates had a tendency to discuss what they should write on their communiqué (a “personal” message) to another cabinet, which was wrong. Eventually as time passed, delegates kept communiqués to themselves and discussed what they should send as a press release or directives with other cabinet members which were the correct way that things should have run from the start. Furthermore, we believe that the committee was made a lot easier because there were a few delegates in the committee who were already familiar with how a crisis committee was run, thus we went fairly quickly through explaining how the committee was going to be run and if there were any problems those who knew previously how the committee was run would explain to other delegates. Overall, the committee ran smoothly and what was needed to solve the issue was well planned out by most of the delegates and most of all it was fun. The crisis simulation that our delegates were dealing with was over the dispute of whether Taiwan should be an independent nation or not. Throughout committee, the members of the Chinese cabinet were coming up with different ways to maintain Taiwan under their control and asked specific questions to nations such as Russia and Japan why they had agreed to see Taiwan as an independent nation. This got our delegates to take action and to put forth a directive to place Chinese naval ships around within 50 – 100 miles of Taiwan’s border. Along with this and the secretary general sending a communiqué to the Taiwan cabinet that “China was ready for war” created further problems in maintaining peace between the two areas. However, with the joint summit agreed to at both times helped settle some of the disagreements keeping minimal problems than had existed at the start of the crisis simulation. Although, at the end both nations had not agreed to a peaceful treaty, they both were able to clear some of the issues that they were having before.
AWARDS
Best Delegate: - Executive Vice President—Huntington Beach Outstanding: - Minister of National Development—Tustin - Minister of Labor—University Commendation: - Minister of Civil Affairs—PV Peninsula - Vice Premier of Economy—Huntington Beach - Minister of Supervision—Information was not provided (can you email us?)
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