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To: MadIvan
Coming out of Hong Kong, the importance of the rules-based multilateral trading system ...were reaffirmed.

And just how stupid and damaging is "multilateral trading"? It forces us to trade with countries that have nothing to offer except communism and slavery.
152 posted on 01/12/2006 12:08:21 PM PST by hedgetrimmer
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To: hedgetrimmer
And just how stupid and damaging is "multilateral trading"? It forces us to trade with countries that have nothing to offer except communism and slavery.

If you seriously think China is communist these days, you haven't heard of Deng Xioping's maxim, "To get rich is glorious". Secondly, as for the slavery - you have totally failed to prove a direct link between free trade and slavery. In fact, let's put it this way - if countries cannot participate in the world trading system, are marginalised and poor, they are more likely to have slavery or extremist governments: countries with outright slavery like Niger and Mauritania have no economy and little trade to speak of. Countries with truly operating communism like North Korea have policies you would like - Kim Il-Sung committed them to a policy called "juche", which means "self-reliance". They shut out the world. And look where it got them.

Ivan

154 posted on 01/12/2006 12:13:16 PM PST by MadIvan (You underestimate the power of the Dark Side - http://www.sithorder.com/)
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