Re:Singapore Urges U.S. to Accept China's Rise, Spare Other ...
by dalbasal on Thursday May 16, 2019 @10:31AM
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That last one is a dangerous argument, imho. There're versions of that argument applied to labour laws, environmental laws, corporate law... It's often made by the radical EU-left. Yanis Varoufakis, most notably.
Unless you play by the same rules, free trade is unfair.
That argument is extremist, imo. It creates a dichotomy between trade or sovereignty. Want your own environmental laws, liability laws, pension schemes, oh&s rules? No trade for you.
It leads to both conflict, and the extension of the massive and very problematic trade agreements into every every facet of legislation.
IP laws can stay local. I agree on the middle point. Whatever the case for china making its own IP laws, they need to follow their own rule of law. Hacking/stealing is not justifiable. Deciding that pharma patents are not valid in China is.
Unless you play by the same rules, free trade is unfair.
That argument is extremist, imo. It creates a dichotomy between trade or sovereignty. Want your own environmental laws, liability laws, pension schemes, oh&s rules? No trade for you.
It leads to both conflict, and the extension of the massive and very problematic trade agreements into every every facet of legislation.
IP laws can stay local. I agree on the middle point. Whatever the case for china making its own IP laws, they need to follow their own rule of law. Hacking/stealing is not justifiable. Deciding that pharma patents are not valid in China is.