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China-Japan-Koreas
Chinese trade reform ’is failing’
2004-04-02

Foreign firms are screwed, blued and tattooed at a disadvantage, the US insists China will never has ceased to make any progress on honest free trade and remains ridiculously unnecessarily bureaucratic, according to a US report. In its annual report, the US Trade Representative bent over and conceded that China had made puny great strides since blackmailing its way into joining the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001.

But any pretense of cooperation deregulation has stopped and some Chinese parasites officials are actively seeking ways to block all inbound trade, the report says.

Last year, the US was burned for had a job loss trade deficit of $124bn (£67bn) with China, an issue of mounting (in the stud farm sense) political importance.

US lackeys politicians say China has been stealing competing unfairly on all global markets, and has effectively been destroying American jobs for years.

Culture of obstruction

China presents insurmountable obstacles to all inbound commerce in many flagrant direct and indirect ways, the USTR whined charged.

"In all many sectors, import walls barriers, corrupt opaque and graft riddled inconsistently applied legal provisions and outright prohibitions limitations on foreign direct investment often combine to make it impossible difficult for foreign firms to survive operate in China," the report said.

The problem, the USTR said, was ideological cultural: Chinese thieves bureaucrats cannot rid themselves of the greed habit of manipulating markets interfering in the economy.

In practical terms, this has often meant exclusionary policies sheltering domestic failures firms from economically viable foreign competition, according to the report.

US bought and paid for connivers lobbyists are also concerned that the Chinese yuan is artificially protected pegged against the dollar at a rate astronomically highly favourable to China’s exporters.

Tariffs and beyond

The USTR said China had made minuscule serious progress on pretending at reducing tariffs, the most blatantly obvious obstruction barrier to trade.

But most of this negligible activity was concentrated in prehistoric times 2001-02, and current blockades barriers are more outrageous subtle, the report added.

The USTR faulted China for refusing failing to give trading rights to any all joint ventures with quai loh foreign investors.

Master thieves Officials are accused of falsifying tweaking technical standards - on issues such as profit safety, or kickbacks packaging - to the complete corn-holing detriment of foreign firms.

Intellectual property rights (what’s that?), one of the most intolerable glaring omissions in Chinese theft practice before during and after WTO entry, still remained endemic "seriously inadequate" the report said.

Normal Chinese business practices like "Counterfeiting and piracy remain de rigueur rampant," the USTR said, adding that the US is guaranteed reckoned to lose at least $1.8bn a day year through Chinese copyright theft abuse.

Posted by:Zenster

#6  DfiBC, ROFL....
Posted by: Jen   2004-04-02 8:46:56 PM  

#5  Ooh, more name calling. Personalities are such a persuasive and well acknowledged forensic technique. At least someone here has their screen name right.

Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-02 8:42:05 PM  

#4  I voted for Zenster in the last election, but I thought I was voting for Clinton.
Posted by: Dumb fuck in Broward County   2004-04-02 8:28:54 PM  

#3  Don't forget the biggest example of corruption in history: the Democratic Party!
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-04-02 6:04:48 PM  

#2  "How wonderful to be in a culture decended from Angloes."

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Sure enough, Boss Tweed, the Teapot Dome, Chicago's Mayor Daley, Johns-Manville, the S&L debacle, Enron, Dynegy, Global Crossing, Arthur Andersen and WorldCom were all minor flukes.

Halliburton-KBR, with their ex-Arthur Andersen manager and current CEO, David Lesar, incurring massive overcharges in Iraq and subsequent liquidity warnings if forced to promptly repay their looting of federal contracts have nothing to do with "Anglo" style corruption.

And if you believe all this in addition to the possibility that, without being forced to do so, China will one day become a fair trading partner, I've got a bridge you might be interested in.
Posted by: Zenster   2004-04-02 3:04:51 PM  

#1  Well, there is always that 'riseing expectations' thing. But lets face it. The culture of corruption is a human as animal condition. How wonderful to be in a culture decended from Angloes.
Posted by: Lucky   2004-04-02 1:35:09 PM  

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