The Guardian: America set to torpedo trade talks

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

America set to torpedo trade talks

Nick Mathiason and John Madeley in Cancun
Sunday September 14, 2003
The Observer

Fears are growing that the United States could effectively walk away from crucial trade talks in the Mexican resort of Cancun aimed at solving the deepening economic and social crisis afflicting billions of the world's poorest people.

As the World Trade Organisation negotiations entered their final hours, business leaders feared that efforts to strike a ground-breaking deal on trade distortions harming the developing world were in the balance.

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.'

MORE AT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1041883,00.html

[Bush_has_Parvo]

1. I don't think they like the new world order

International power brokers are increasingly pre-occupied with a deepening alliance between Brazil, India and China, representing half the world's population. Senior government officials in Mexico say this will alter the geo-political balance, and it is understood to have made Washington deeply uneasy about a new rival to challenge its economic supremecy

Believe it or not, no matter how long you Bushies* pout in your hotel room FAIR TRADE is coming!!!

[Starpass]

2. how apt to compare our regime with the old Soviet Union

and Bush has governed like Kruschev who liked to bang his shoe when he wasn't happy. OHHH in so many ways are we becoming like the
Soviet Union.

[Paschall]

3. And haven't we seen this behavior before, only recently?

"If the US walks away from the talks it would plunge the world into a disastrous financial crisis as it sought to strike trade deals on its own terms with individual nations."

Certainly doesn't sound too out of character after the special bilateral agreements on the International Criminal Court and the pick-and-choose "coalition of the the willing."