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The China-India-Brazil Bloc Complicates Trade Politics |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / SPECIAL REPORT--FREE TRADE FRACAS |
| Author: Martin Walker |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,119 Words, 6,943 Characters |
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The essential dispute at the world trade summit in Hong Kong in December 2005 has been portrayed as the rich Americans, Europeans, and Japanese against the world's poor. And while there is a case for saying this ought to be true, it just isn't. The real battle is between the poor and the less poor, and the rich countries are astutely exploiting this division.
The essential culprit is the term "developing nations," which includes China, India, and Brazil, three countries that are already in or close to the Top Ten of world economies as measured by GDP.
But the term also includes the wretchedly poor, like Burundi and Tajikistan and Nepal, whose economic prospects are light-years away from those of China (which has put men into space) or India (which is a nuclear power) or Brazil (which...
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... powerful of the world, know it from recent and direct experience. Deep down, they do not really believe they have an absolute identity of interest with the ill-governed poorest of the poor, which is why the rich white world of Europe, Japan, and North America can continue to divide and rule, and to ensure that the global economy operates in their interest.
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