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Written by Stumo
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Monday, 01 February 2010 |
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Remember when China protested the U.S. "Buy American" provision in the February 2009 stimulus bill? It was American protectionism!
The mainstream media just reprinted press releases from other countries, without analysis. Editorial pages brought up the "trade war" warnings. Silly bunch of fact-deprived writers.
While CPA pointed out that most other countries have "Buy Domestic" provisions much stronger than those proposed for the U.S., I still like it when it hits the news.
China is threatening to penalize American companies engaged in commercial arms transactions to China.
China has also never joined the W.T.O. side agreement on government procurement. So China could bar the American companies from selling to the government without fear of W.T.O. review.
Not that I want our high tech arms to be sold to them. I just want to halt the "trade war"whining when we act strategically.
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