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US and Japan want China to ease up on protectionism

China says, you first
Tuesday, 5 May 2009, 13:13

US AND Japanese trade negotiators have been asking the Chinese to scrap rules on foreign computers and stop being so protective of its industry during the global slowdown.

Toshihiro Nikai, Japan's trade minister, and US Trade Representative Ron Kirk told AP, China should drop plans to require certification of IT products to be used by the government.

The Chinese want to look under the bonnet of any IT products that foreigners want to flog in China in case it has anything nasty stowed away there. Besides the US and Japan are the last people who should moan about protectionism.

The US claims the Chinese just want to nick whatever technology they can get their hands on. µ

 

 

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US last one to complain?

There's a bit of mental weakness in the argument that the US ought to be the last country to complain about Chinese protectionism. While significantly far from a truly open economy, it still has one of the most open economies in the world. And you can concretely measure the effect of this in its still enormous long-standing trade deficit.

posted by : CompEng, 05 May 2009 Complain about this comment
You is wrong

"US and Japan" are plural, so you is expected to use the plural for the verb... isn't you?

Sorry, me english poorr....

posted by : pain_in_da_ยงยงยง, 05 May 2009 Complain about this comment
China should get everything

The twenty first century belongs only to China. China will take whatever it wants.

posted by : Chinese Policy Ruler, 05 May 2009 Complain about this comment
Chinese owning

ya'll listen up

ya'll better start learning how to

read, write and speak chinese, rap in chinese, order food in chinese, be chinese

chinese dollar chin chin, bling bling

ka peace~~~

posted by : the chinese rapper, 06 May 2009 Complain about this comment
Chimerica

IMHO all this crysis true reason is USA-china economic dependency, so caled Chimerica, and this crysis only end,- then this is over: $ devalvates, or juan revalvates, or whole world will go from global economics to regional ones, USA, 16 years, from clinton or even GWB (the first) are rising their debt, and now they are rising even at much greater speed, if they can`t spend less past 16 years or more, could they do it, in the future,- having much bigger debt, bigger procents to pay ? Ye they can print more $, but it`s tempruary solution, till some limit
and for china, the sky is not clear too, china is bigest winner of global economics and if something changes ... could they move there titanic to adobt to the new situation.

posted by : kzinas, 06 May 2009 Complain about this comment
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