Comments on: The West’s protectionist past and Chinalco-Rio Tinto http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/08/15/the-wests-protectionist-past-and-chinalco-rio-tinto/ Economics, Politics and Public Policy in East Asia and the Pacific Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:50:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2 By: Lincoln Funghttp://www.eastasiaforum.org/2009/08/15/the-wests-protectionist-past-and-chinalco-rio-tinto/comment-page-1/#comment-50384 Lincoln Fung Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:28:38 +0000 http://www.eastasiaforum.org/?p=6474#comment-50384 The West, especially the US, were hypocritical in what they advocated “free” trade. They asked other countries to open their markets, but when they could not compete with others they devise various disgraceful schemes to protect their markets and industries. It was a display of power politics/economics. It was appalling. I am not sure the last paragraph correctly describes the situation of the Stern Hu case with China. That case appears to be very different from the other interventions on trade. The West, especially the US, were hypocritical in what they advocated “free” trade. They asked other countries to open their markets, but when they could not compete with others they devise various disgraceful schemes to protect their markets and industries. It was a display of power politics/economics. It was appalling.

I am not sure the last paragraph correctly describes the situation of the Stern Hu case with China. That case appears to be very different from the other interventions on trade.

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