[Skybird]

What have free trade zones to do with lobbyijf cartels and tarriffs and corrupt political backroom deals?


In Asia they have just formed the biggest free trad zone of the entir eplanet, bringing together so very different and in parts quite "hostile" to each other actors like China, Australia, Korea, Japan, Vietnam... They ignore the differences betwene their social ordrs and pltlicla animosities, worldviews and forms of government, and instead focus on - trade. First statistics they have published two weeks ago or so indicate that it seems to work for the benefit of all.



A free trade zone is not the same like globalization. I think much of what yoiu say is true for globalization, and I tend to thinki of globalization benefitting the few at the cost of the many, doing mroe harm than good. I think in Europoe we must cut it back. Tremedoeusly. Our dependency on India and China for producign medical goods and vaccines is just the latest illustrating exmaple how depending it has made us, and how vulnerable. And i do not want a free trade zone covering the whole globe, but think of it as local, regional zones, like the old EEC was. Thats was a good diea. The bad stuff started when it wanted to be much more than just a trade zone.