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It is truly incredible that most of the advocates of this trade policy do not even seem to understand the class nature of their agenda, equating the interests of a tiny group at the top with the interests of the whole country.... TruthoutTrade: It’s Still About Class, Not Country Dean Baker | Co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research in Washington, D.CSee alsoRobert ReichChina Tariffs are a Regressive Tax on Americans, and Risk a Recession
Read More »China’s Embrace Of An Intellectual Property System Imposed On It By The United States — Lynn Fries interviews Peter Drahos
I dont think its in the long term interests of the United States to enter a sort of arms race in this area. Because I think thats going to produce a frightening kind of dystopian world. We have a lot of choices about the future that we can create. And unfortunately, I think intellectual property, the privatization of science, an arms raced mentality when it comes to the use of science, is going to produce the sort of sci-fi future that none of us really want, a kind of dark, dystopian...
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Donald Trump has proved the skeptics wrong, it seems that the American people stand to be big winners as a result of his trade war. The Chinese government announced a major initiative to promote the manufacture and use of generic drugs.... This can matter hugely for people in the United States since if China joins India as a mass producer of high quality generic drugs it will become increasingly difficult for the U.S. drug companies to maintain an island of protected prices in the United...
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