Trump wanted a reform of the WTO, and now he is not alone. French President Emmanuel Macron, who was so cordial with Trump just a few weeks ago, is pushing for a WTO for different reasons than those of Trump. Trump wants to change the rules to favor America, while Macron is looking to improve the rules to hinder trade war activities and the economic aggression being waged by his American partner.
Machiavelli once said “a man will sooner forget the death of his father than the loss of his patron”. Trump is doing exactly that to the whole world, one country at a time, while citing his ‘America first’ philosophy. He’s not waging hot wars on them, he’s hitting them right where it hurts most – the pocket book.
On Tuesday (4/3/2018) the US published a list of Chinese imports, set to be hit with a $50 billion tariff increase. This is the latest in an escalating trade skirmish between the US and China, that could escalate into a war.
Alibaba founder Jack Ma has spoken about how China’s ‘One Belt–One Road’ trade initiative differs than the world trade organisations set up in the 1990s and early 2000s which have largely been seen as failures for the many while benefiting the few.
Ma stated,
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The “subtly” named “World Government Summit,” which started Feb. 12 and ran through Feb. 14 in Abu Dubai, United Arab Emirates, included a few Bilderberg Group and World Economic Forum (WEF) members, such as WEF founder Klaus Schwab and frequent Bilderberg attendee Christine Lagarde, longtime International Monetary Fund chief.
According to the World Trade Organization, India can't favor Indian made Solar panels over American made ones.
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The World Trade Organization's push to ban the US' labeling of dolphin-safe tuna provides us with a window into America's dark future with the TPP.
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These three agreements solidify the creeping corporate coup d’état along with the final evisceration of national sovereignty. Citizens will be forced to give up control of their destiny and will be stripped of the ability to protect themselves from corporate predators, safeguard the ecosystem and find redress and justice in our now anemic and often dysfunctional democratic institutions.
