Or is it vice versa. Anyway, once people stop making fun of the puppets and goofy signs they can start to actually notice that some critics of "globalization" in its current form have a point. Our free trade rhetoric is often nothing more than that. We muscle developing nations into trade agreements, forcing them to sign onto intellectual property agreements which have nothing to do with trade, and then proceed to refuse to lower the tariffs on items those countries might actually be able to export - textiles and agriculture.
It is particularly galling when we do it to an evil commie country that´s transitioning its way into capitalism.
I´m a free trader, but I´m also a big believer in the fact that the treaties and international institutions which have been set up to perpetuate that are too often used to benefit special interests, corporate and otherwise, in wealthy countries.
Catfish. Jeebus.
