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为什么对自由贸易感到不安

September 12, 2008
自由贸易带来了很多利益，而如果试图“保护”经济、免于竞争，则注定会失败。但随着更多工人、选民和政客表达了对自由贸易的怀疑，并质疑为什么大部分利益只眷顾了少数人，自由贸易也已变得声名狼藉。哥斯达黎加前副主席凯文•凯萨斯－扎默拉（Kevin Casass-Zamora）认为自己是自由贸易的拥护者。他认为，自由贸易往往伴随着双重标准、不断恶化的不平等以及民主的衰落。自由贸易的拥护者必须分析研究这些问题，疏导解决人们对此发出的抱怨。。为了避免对自由贸易的限制，拥护者必须详察自由贸易的过程，并致力于消除腐败、令人生厌的混乱以及偏袒发达国家的失衡的惩罚体系，如严厉处罚对知识产权的侵犯，...

Los Angeles Times: US Tested by Sadr’s Victory in Iraqi

May 16, 2018
Democracy ensures that one nation may not appreciate election results of another nation, and a longtime opponent of the United States took the lead in Iraq’s parliamentary elections. “For years during the long U.S. occupation of Iraq, Muqtada Sadr was an intractable foe, blamed by the Pentagon for...

Animals: The World's Best (and Cheapest) Biosensors

March 19, 2007
Biodiversity is probably the best protection against any biohazard that could hit the globe. Governments invest millions in technology to detect biohazards, but cannot expect to detect every possible problem with a gadget, argues Laura Kahn in “The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.” Animals and...

China Maneuvers to Bring a Soft-landing to the Korean Crisis

February 11, 2003
China is in no position to tell North Korea what to do regarding the current nuclear crisis. Since the end of the Korean War in 1953, Beijing's relations with Pyongyang have soured. At the same time, China has cultivated political and economic relations with both South Korea and the United...

A Million Yassins?

March 26, 2004
Egypt was the first Arab country to make peace with Israel, but the future of diplomatic relations between the two countries now looks shaky. Israel’s assassination last Monday of Hamas founder and prominent Palestinian, Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, has set off zealous anti-Israel reactions among Egyptians...

European Sting: Confronting Neo-Mercantilism

January 8, 2019
Trade tensions run high, led in no small part by the US-China trade spat, Brexit negotiations and the need for World Trade Organization reforms. “Without agreed legal frameworks, the default becomes ‘might is right,’ where the most powerful countries leverage their positions to favour themselves...

CNBC: 3 Reasons the World Could Turn Its Back on the US Dollar

October 12, 2017
The US dollar may lose its status as the world’s reserve currency due to weak US governance and geopolitical pressures: the North Korea threat, diminished US-EU transatlantic ties and China’s prominence in global markets, including skill in managing credit excesses, so far, without disrupting the...

Globe and Mail: Freeland, Warrior Princess

October 2, 2018
Canada reflects on its relationship with the United States and the behavior of its own leaders after tough negotiations with the Trump administration. Chrystia Freeland is listed among the winners after the negotiations for managing to complete a deal and promote Canada’s world view – Freeland had...
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