He claims the trade war partly reflects China’s refusal to adopt conditions linked to IP enforcement and full capital convertibility expected in the WTO process.
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WTO
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...reproach month? And the reason why is that when China entered WTO in about the year 2000, there was an implicit agreement that, uh,..."
Key Notes
The rules-based international order is presented as a shadow layer projected by empire to hide that the entitlement economy steals resources from others.
He frames GATT/WTO, SWIFT, and the Bank of International Settlements as coordination infrastructure for free trade, dollar-denominated bank transfers, and central-bank policy alignment.
He says these same billionaire interests helped initiate the earlier trade war and are now pushing rapprochement because China's WTO-era bargain with the United States did not fully develop as expected.
Jiang says the WTO-era understanding behind normal U.S.-China trade was that China would protect American intellectual property and eventually open its financial sector to Wall Street.
Jiang says Clinton was a centrist neoliberal doing Republican work by advancing NAFTA, permanent normal trade relations with China, and China's WTO entry.
Jiang argues that the old US expectation behind China's WTO integration was that China would eventually liberalize financially and produce a consumer class willing to buy more American goods.
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"...reproach month? And the reason why is that when China entered WTO in about the year 2000, there was an implicit agreement that, uh,..."
"Okay. The first thing was that China would rigorously, uh, protect American IPOs. The second was that China would eventually open up its financial..."
"...war okay so what led to the trade war is the WTO so in 1999 China negotiated to join the WTO the World Trade..."
"of conditions the two most important conditions were one was protect IP okay you have to protect other nations intellectual property and you have..."
"possible whereas Apple was essentially a monopoly okay and this led to United States imposing trade sanctions on Huawei because it was too competitive..."
"...normal trade uh status with china who brought china into the wto um and this would have been possible under republican uh president"
"...national order okay multinational organizations which includes the UN and the WTO okay World Trade Organization okay this is called the rules -based international..."
"...a general agreement on tariff and trade so this is the WTO basically okay that's changed into the WTO in 1995 all right so..."
"dollars, all right? Now, the last thing is, okay, how do these countries get together and decide on how to cooperate economically? And the..."
"...in the late 90s, when China and America was negotiating the WTO entry, basically, the idea was that over time, China would liberalize its..."
"...the game masters. These are included of course the UN the WTO the EU the World Bank okay? Lots and lots of these organizations...."
"...global economy. And they are the World Bank, the United Nations, WTO. You make people believe that this is all being controlled impartially for..."
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