Exactly.
What is worrying is that poor countries now have a structural deficit since they have become dependent on food imports after many of their farmers have lost their livelihoods and land.
Alot of food aid has become a crooked sham by rich countries and big corporations to furthur their...
The problem with China trade is that the Chinese are relatively impoverished and cannot afford to buy the stuff that US produces - apparently tiny Singapore alone has approximately the same purchasing power of the whole of China.
The commercial attraction in China today is not a big market...
If people went back in time, they would find out that European countries did not implement free trade until their economies were strong enough to compete on fairly equal terms. They erected trade barriers and didn't give a rats ass about intellectual property all in order to build up their...
If the history of the Philippines was only about 5 years old and totally concentrated in Makati city, you might be right. Problem is that Philippines have suffered an unequal relationship incl trade with the US since it was colonized. I'm sure the Philippines is an attractive place to invest in...
Almost all the examples you quoted do not implement free trade. South Korea, Hong Kong, Malaysia protect their markets at least in certain sectors. Mexico embraced free trade and got totally burnt and is now in the doghouse.
You are right, we don't need to discuss purely hypothetical...
Chinese had reason to be distrustful when they see western powers making a living by piracy and drugs. China is probably one of the few countries which didn't get colonized although it did knuckle down by importing opium under the aegis of free trade after the opium war and granting...
The Israel Palestine conflict is not a conflict of civilizations or religions, just as the US-Amerindian war.
The issue driving those conflicts is a very basic one - territorial dispossession. Palestinians want their own state and have made a big concession from the 1948 partition to be ready...
I told you already in my previous post that the 1948 borders for Israel did not contain WB/Gaza. There was suppose to be 2 states - Israel and Palestine and the WB/Gaza would constitute the Palestinian state.
If Israel can use the old testament to justify the creation of a state then the...
Palehorse,
Your contention that the West Bank/Gaza belongs to Israel is a common misconception. Did the 1948 borders demarcate the WB/Gaza as part of Israel? The WB/Gaza belongs to the Palestinians ever since 1948 despite being occupied by Israel or other Arab countries.
In the 1967 war...
Yes and for good reason. The neighbouring Arabs Egypt and Jordan did not really bother with a Palestinian state in 1948-1967 and just occupied parts of it. Then came the 1967 war and Israel conquered Sinai and the WB. In this crucial period the US missed the opportunity to pressure Israel to...
In your post, you have stated your position 2 times without stating your reasons why except to say it is absurd/what idiots believe.
Its quite well known (at least outside the US) that Israel is using its occupied territories as a colonial settlement. Resources like land for farming, water...
Why not 1948 borders? That would be ideal but Palestinians want to present a more politically feasible and practical solution which is to concede more land by asking for only the 1967 borders. Nearly every country in the world except for 2 (US/Israel) acknowlege this.
The 1967 borders is the...
I dont know how that article can be used to justify the lofty claims of NAFTA, it sounds more like a snivelling apology after all the lofty claims.
The article only allows a modest net plus for the economy occured not counting the 4 million jobs lost (due to China not NAFTA so they claim)...
The WSJ has always been conservative, after all who does it work with every day to get news?
During the cold war it cheered on US military interventions and called CIA + Suharto's 1965 bloody coup a shining light in Asia.
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