Good morning, Happy Labor Day and the unofficial end to the Summer. The Summer of course will end at the equinox, on September 22nd. But most kids are either in school or heading back soon, Summer travel is over, the football season is in full swing, and many companies are encouraging their employees back to work. Fall is here, despite the heat wave here in Southern California!
Hey Glenn: The underlying incentive for increasing trade relations with a country like China (in a geopolitical sense) is to expose them to the outside world in ways that would not otherwise happen, and through that exposure, influence their populations to absorb some of our values. That through that process, working conditions would improve, freedom of expression would proliferate, etc. The naive part of that is to think that our open society and free wheeling ways would overcome the ability of an authoritarian regime to totally stifle that movement. It was intended as a trap for them, but with the reliance of Western corporate interests on that trade, it was us who became trapped…for the time being.
Hey Glenn: The underlying incentive for increasing trade relations with a country like China (in a geopolitical sense) is to expose them to the outside world in ways that would not otherwise happen, and through that exposure, influence their populations to absorb some of our values. That through that process, working conditions would improve, freedom of expression would proliferate, etc. The naive part of that is to think that our open society and free wheeling ways would overcome the ability of an authoritarian regime to totally stifle that movement. It was intended as a trap for them, but with the reliance of Western corporate interests on that trade, it was us who became trapped…for the time being.