CNN reports: WTO reports progress at talks http://edition.cnn.com/2003/BUSINESS/09/13/trade.wto.ap/index.html BBC reports: Trade summit faces crucial day http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3106764.stm The Times of India reports: WTO draft document one-sided: India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/cms.dll/xml/uncomp/articleshow? msid=181093 NYTimes doesn't feature the story anywhere on the front page, it seems. Not even in the Business or the International section. While CNN seems to paint a story that all's well at Cancun, the BBC puts up a cautious note and Times of India reports a deadlock. Interesting!!18 responses total.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1041883,00.html "A high level source in the UK delegation told The Observer said: 'It's difficult to know what the Americans want. They're staying in their hotel. They're behaving like the Soviet Union in the Eighties. It's making it difficult to know what they want.'"
Do the Americans know what they want?? ;)
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Maybe. I think I'd rather have Thalia, actually. Aggresando!
screeching does nnot behoove the have-nots.
The general Bush strategy on these things is to avoid having anything to do with big multilateral international organizations, and do one-on-one deals instead. So the US isn't giving much in these big negotiations, and doesn't care much if they fail. Bush'd rather negotiate with one nation at a time. If the US negotiates a free trade agreement with one country, say Morocco, then it can swing its weight around a lot more than in a global negotiation. Same reason big companies wish that unions didn't exist - they could probably pay lower pages if their workers weren't negotiating collectively. I think you can expect to see Bush continue to torpedo all these kinds of international accords until the day comes when the American voters can torpedo him. Meanwhile, they'll do their best to spin the "everything is peachy" story for the American voters, and the US media, which to a large degree collects its news from administration sources, will tend to follow that lead.
According to Dutch media, the Cancun negatiations were a humungous faillure. Torpedoed by the 3rd World Countries who are fed up with the Western arrogance. Anti-globalists celebrated this faillure.
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Seems like US Government <==> Large MNCs. No? ;-)
no, sj2, teh reverse. i am stunned to see janc recognize teh success (in para#1) of the stragery of individualism. and then blow it al to hell in para#2 .. well, tehre is hope afterall.
I wouldn't characterize it as "success".
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thats all right, a lot of americans make the same mistake.
Yes, and a lot of people vote for those americans.
Re #14: Lumping together America and large corporations is wrong. However, lumping together the U.S. government and large corporations is pretty much dead-on, when you consider how politics works these days.
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