The Crisis Committee, day 2

By Silvia Stan and Diana Marcu

Today's crisis committees both discussed the ongoing wars between China and Taiwan, bringing the Hong Kong protests at the forefront. We were there to witness a heated debate, as none other than Vladimir Putin - seemingly GoetheMUN's golden boy - proposed a moderated caucus on the topic of these protests. Putin declares himself a proud ally of the LGBT (The Long Governmental Battle against Tyranny), wanting to support protesters all over Hong Kong.

Wang Zhimin steps in - that rhymes. He offers support to the protesters by suggesting a meeting and offering to send back-up troops. Maha Vajiaralongkorn attempts damage control by proposing a press release to calm down the masses.

Xi Jinping brings into discussion a factual statement: a 19 year old man viciously murdering his 20 year old pregnant girlfriend and getting away with it strictly because of civil discrepancies in the government.

Easing the tension of the heated debate was - weirdly enough - Kim Jong-Un. Among murmurs of prison and murder he suggests China become the DPRK. He states that the general public loves him. And if they don't, he shoots them. Maha echoes everybody's thoughts at the time: what on earth was that? Xi Jinping however is quick to take on board Kim's radical statement.

Putin argues that Hong Kong is not that (at all) democratic, wishing to calm Kim down and soon after, the committee engages in an unmoderated caucus: a tighter-knit discussion.

At that moment we decided to switch rooms to spectate the other committee's take on the same subject, the main difference being they had a hammer! The topic may be the same, but the set of politicians was unique to the room. They even spared a desk for Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, but the latter never showed up. Typical.

Dalai Lama opened the discussion by providing insight on the setting aflame of the Chinese flag and suggesting these atrocious acts caused by extremist groups might've been set up by the Chinese officials.

Dolkun Isa dives in with an empowering speech on the importance of saving Hong Kong, calling it one of the most democratic places in China, directly contradicting Putin one room down the hall.

Dalai Lama wraps it up nicely by reiterating his previous point: why would the protestants sabotage themselves by setting the Chinese flag on fire and angering the officials, when all they're striving for is freedom?

All the while, calming, elevator-music-esque droning was provided by the construction workers nearby. One of the chairs, Elton, attempted to acoustically join in by struggling in refilling his glass from a comically large water container.

We would've loved to stay more but unfortunately, the buzzing of the construction workers was a quite literal buzzkill and ended up interrupting the conference all together.