To: hedgetrimmer
But the WTO says we must or we will be violating their rules.This is actually what has been agreed.
It doesn't eliminate protectionism - it caps tariffs at certain levels, and turns agricultural quotas to tariffs.
Trying to diminish the fact that globally,slavery is on the rise due to the fraudulently named "free trade" system won't fly.
None of the articles you posted say that free trade has led to an increase in slavery. The nation that first proposed free trade, namely Britain, was also one of the first to eliminate it, and actively work to destroy it with the Royal Navy.
Ivan
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01/12/2006 8:45:17 AM PST by
MadIvan
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To: MadIvan
It doesn't eliminate protectionism
Well then, it isn't really free trade, is it. Yet the "free traders" are very happy to promote the myth that it is.
To: MadIvan
Known Laogai Camps in each of China's Provinces:
The LaogaiChinas vast network of forced labor campsis not a dying or insignificant institution as some have suggested. On the contrary, the Chinese government continues to use this Gulag system as a major tool of suppression of dissent and a mechanism for sustaining absolute control over Chinas population.
Nor can we disregard the patently illegal export of products made with forced labor.
The exploitation of forced labor in the Laogai has remained an integral part of Chinas modernization drive. The Laogai itself has benefited greatly form the opening of China to international commerce and access to hard currency through the export of its products: everything from socks to diesel engines, raw cotton to processed graphite.
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China is using "free trade" is modernize, forced labor is integral to China's modernization.
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