{"id":113,"date":"2006-01-05T22:36:50","date_gmt":"2006-01-06T02:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/01\/05\/us-stakeholder-gets-short-end-of-s"},"modified":"2006-01-05T22:36:50","modified_gmt":"2006-01-06T02:36:50","slug":"us-stakeholder-gets-short-end-of-stick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/2006\/01\/05\/us-stakeholder-gets-short-end-of-stick\/","title":{"rendered":"US  Stakeholder Gets Short End of Stick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a157'><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">by William R. Hawkins<\/span><br \/>\nAny rational analysis of the decisions made at the recent trade meeting<br \/>\nin Hong Kong would conclude that the United States is being played for<br \/>\na fool &#8212; by the &#8220;developing world&#8221; (which includes China and India), as<br \/>\nwell as by the developed world (the Europeans and Japanese). While<br \/>\nevery other WTO member country is trying to gain competitive advantage<br \/>\nand advance its national interests, the United States is looking out<br \/>\nfor the &#8220;good of the international trading system&#8221; &#8212; a house of cards<br \/>\nbuilt on exporting as much as you can to the American market. Trees<br \/>\ndon&#8217;t grow to the sky, and American wealth is not unlimited. The system<br \/>\nwill eventually collapse, bringing untold misery, unless some reality<br \/>\nand sanity intervene. However, don&#8217;t expect current U.S. trade<br \/>\nofficials to be the source of that sanity, compulsively wedded as they<br \/>\nare to the abstract theory of free trade.<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by William R. Hawkins Any rational analysis of the decisions made at the recent trade meeting in Hong Kong would conclude that the United States is being played for a fool &#8212; by the &#8220;developing world&#8221; (which includes China and India), as well as by the developed world (the Europeans and Japanese). While every other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[783],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-development"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/globalfund\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}