>>> Tom Lehman <TLehman at lor.net> 05/05/00 06:32PM >>>
Charles---Out and out corporate managed trade has the potential to be a
disaster for us and the Chinese people too.
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CB: Agree, but don't we already have the out and outest corporate managed trade in a long time in neo-liberalism ? Isn't the diasterous potential already fulfilled ?
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The whole agricultural deal with China doesn't add up, as I have mentioned in earlier posts. Although reports of pollution, lack of sanitary sewage, water treatment and water quality control ring true for the Chinese cities. That doesn't necessarily reflect on Chinese agriculture which seems to be in pretty healthy shape and could do much better with only minor technical improvements as noted by the USDA.
Is China planning a high tech hyper industrialization at the expense of Chinese agriculture?
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CB: Isn't it amazing that the Chinese revolution has been wiped out starvation there ? I mean with all those mouths to feed. Seems like that is evidence that the Chinese revolution is rather practical for the working peasant masses who produce all that food.
I don't think the Chinese are out to cheat us in trade, just raise the living standards of their hundreds of millions of folks.
CB
Charles Brown wrote:
> >>> Tom Lehman <uswa12 at Lorainccc.edu> 05/04/00 10:54AM >>>
> I had an interesting little chat this morning with an editor/journalist
> of a respected Ohio farm weekly newspaper. This gentleman tells me that
> it wouldn't surprise him if China buys American agricultural products
> and then turns around and sells them back to us at a higher price than
> they paid for them.
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> CB: Is us that dumb ?
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> CB