Beijing takes a back seat
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/journalist/story/0,7792,1670861,00.html
China's transformation from victim to predator could explain its
low-key approach to the WTO talks, says Jonathan Watts
Monday December 19, 2005
Compared with the arguments taking place in negotiating rooms and the
riots in the streets of Hong Kong this week, there was a deafening
silence surrounding China's growing role in the global trading system
at the WTO talks last week.
Even though this giant nation has arguably benefited more than any
other from liberalised commerce, and even though its peasants have
undergone some of the most wrenching changes suffered by farmers
anywhere in the world, there was almost no discussion of these two
topics, either inside or outside the five-day meeting.
WTO
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/951bfb2c90e5636a
Jonathan Watts
http://groups.google.com/group/soc.culture.china/msg/b722ed59f3c51147
Is the wakening giant a monster?
http://tinyurl.com/iws6
A Blueprint for the Future
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/msg/59c28cd6dfe6f60f
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