Friday, 7 August 2020

"Worst Of All Deals": Trump On China's Entry To World Trade Organisation

 China's entry into the World Trade Organisation is the "worst of all deals" said US President Donald Trump on Thursday.

"China's entry into the World Trade Organisation which is probably the worst of all the deals, if you want to know the truth...They violated the rules like nobody had ever violated it before," Trump said at the Whirlpool Corporation Manufacturing Plant in Ohio.

"In the past, politicians have aggressively pursued a policy of globalisation, moving our jobs, wealth, and our factories overseas. 

Globalisation has made the elites who donate to politicians wealthy and has left nothing for our workers expect for poverty and heartache," he added.

Further calling China a developing nation, the US President said that they had advantages "but we did not accept them".

Previously in January, Trump said that the US has not been "treated fairly" by the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which considered China and India as developing nations.

"The World Trade Organisation has been very unfair to the United States for many, many years. And without it, China wouldn't be China, and China wouldn't be where they are right now. I mean, China -- that was the vehicle that they used. And I give them great credit. And I also don't give the people that were in my position great credit, because, frankly, they let that all happen. But the vehicle was the World Trade Organization," Trump said.

The Trump administration has been for long threatening to withdraw the US from the 164- member World Trade Organisation to which China had become a member in December 2001.

Trump administration has been waging a war on the WTO's Appellate Body and has continued to block nominees to the Geneva-based tribunal, which has rendered it unable to convene the required quorum.


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What Is The Ideal COVID-19 Response? These 3 Countries Got It Right

 The ideal governmental response to Covid-19 would combine the testing policy of New Zealand, the schools policy of Denmark, and the communications strategy of Uganda, according to a study of different countries' responses.

Research by Michael Barber, a former adviser to U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, and Idris Jala, who did a similar job for Malaysia's Najib Razak, has looked at how different countries have handled the global pandemic in an effort to help others to learn from the most successful.

Among the examples they pick out are New Zealand's extensive testing, which has seen more than 7,000 tests for each confirmed case, and South Korea's contact-tracing, which uses data from security cameras and credit card transactions to follow people's movements. Uganda's use of radio call-in shows to engage the public in a country with poor internet access is praised, along with Denmark's successful reopening of schools.

But they note that coordination between countries has been poor, especially when compared with the global financial crisis of 2008, when leaders including Britain's Gordon Brown helped pull together an international response.

'Homework Assignment'

"For the first time in history, every government on the planet has been set the same homework assignment at the same time," Barber said in an interview. "That should be a great opportunity for global learning, but there's surprisingly little going on."

This should be addressed as the world prepares to face the next set of challenges around vaccine distribution and economic rescue packages, he said.

And not every solution works everywhere. South Korea's contact-tracing program is far more invasive than many populations would accept, for example. Though Barber pointed to a successful workaround in Australia, which passed privacy laws to reassure people their data would not be misused.

The pair have also attempted to rank every country on how badly it has been affected by Covid-19 and how well it is recovering. Top of the recovery league on Wednesday were Thailand and South Korea. At the bottom were Honduras and the Bahamas. The U.K. was ranked 28th out of 184 countries. The U.S. was at number 131.

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Racism, Xenophobia: Joe Biden Campaign Focuses On Challenges Sikhs Face

  The Biden campaign has launched an initiative to reach out to the Sikh community in the US and vowed to address the unique challenges, inc...