In America, it is known as 'globalization'. In India, 'multilateralism'

[Deja Q]

http://www.playfuls.com/news_10_3763-ROUNDUP-Hu-Urges-India-And-China-To-Promote-Multilateralism.html

"We (India and China) should promote multi-polarity in the world and democracy in international relations and work to make the international political and economic order fairer and more equitable," Hu, the first Chinese president to visit India in over a decade, said in a keynote address in New Delhi.




http://www.chennaionline.com/colnews/newsitem.asp?NEWSID=%7B7D41A9AE-F424-4E2E-84CF-F46C6E3B9DBB%7D&CATEGORYNAME=Business

India, China to double bilateral trade

[RethugAssKicker]

1. I call it "The New Colonialism"

[JVS]

2. Let me see China's track record of promoting democracy?

[Deja Q]

3. Well, if they're turning over a new leaf it will be terrific indeed.

[Robbien]

4. When they talk about "fairer and more equitable"

They mean fairer and more equitable for the elites in both countries, not fairer and more equitable between global elites and everyone else.

Of course they do not clarify that point as they sell free trade to the middle classes of either country.

[Selatius]

5. Why can't the dispossessed, the poor, the landless negotiate international trade agreements?

What, are the elites afraid the agreements that would follow would threaten their positions of power? How come most trade agreements today are drafted only by rich people?