Speaking of weak and strong, just how many tea drinkers are there in Washington?
The Chinese claim to have invented tea. Emperor Shen Nung and all that rot. I've heard a better claim that tea was invented in an island province off of China -- a island with s distinct culture and langugage independent of China.
As always the big swallow the small unless LAW is respected, so that claim is lost except among the few surviving small found among the dust of the earth.
Free trade is lawless, and far from being a lever to improvement is more effeciently a slide to depravity and lawlessness. Better to support one's nieghbors job first -- has Mr. Bush forgotten that?
Prepare the tea, slaves -- for the EMPEROR!
I respectfully suggest you should re-study the principles and premises of free trade, and reconsider what you think to be the better approach. Free trade is simply the government stepping out of the way (as much as it ever does) so that individuals may choose to deal with whomever they choose. Any other approach involves the government stepping in to collect a tax on goods or services your neighbor needs so you can sell something at a higher price. As with the steel tariffs recently imposed and then terminated, the tariffs destroyed more jobs in the U.S. than were saved, and the jobs saved cost far more than they were reasonably worth. The U.S. caused the Crash of 1929 and the collapse of world trade by voting to abandon free trade in the U.S. Senate in October, 1929, a historic error that contributed greatly to bringing on WWII. We must not make the same mistake again.