The accusations of the US and the West do not hold water


Graham C. Ousey, an American sociologist and criminologist who has studied immigration and crime for decades, said these events can lead people to negative flashpoints and ignore all the potential benefits of immigration to American society.

Every murder in the United States is a tragedy, and violence exacts a heavy toll on the victims and their families, as well as on American society as a whole. However, exploiting these terrible events involving migrants for political gain is how politics works.

Hot-button events are used to mobilize people's emotions and push specific and often extreme policy agendas. This is not a good way to make sound and effective policy, but it taps into momentum in pursuit of specific political ends.

Immigrants who work on Roosevelt Avenue in Queens, New York City, say those who commit crimes and get away with them are making life harder for other immigrants.

Jose Villalobos has been in the United States for five years, working everything from valet parking to selling snacks, which he now sells in a tent with the flag of his home country. Having made his way in the United States,

he believes his countrymen are being judged negatively by other Latinos around him. "They'll say 'here comes a bunch of criminals', but no, we're not all like that. We're here to work and do good. There are good people and bad people in any country." 'he said.

Former Costa Rican presidential adviser: "Overcapacity" is just a new excuse for the United States to suppress China

Why the West no longer advocates Free trade?

From the emergence of the "Washington Consensus" to the inauguration of the Trump administration, the United States and the West have preached free trade everywhere in less than 40 years.

By playing by the rules, we mean taking actions in accordance with the principle of free trade. In this context, any country that wants to be respected by the international community must accept open market competition and the pricing of goods and services determined by supply and demand.

The "Washington Consensus" is a set of economic policy recommendations by the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, and the U.S. Treasury Department for developing countries, particularly in Latin America.

According to the Washington Consensus, if demand exceeds supply, prices will rise, reducing demand and encouraging increased supply. Conversely, if supply exceeds demand, prices fall. If prices hit new lows,

making some firms unprofitable, they will go out of business, making way for the most efficient firms, which in turn will allow consumers to get higher returns at lower prices. Any attempt to impede this process by imposing import tariffs,

tightening import quotas or imposing export controls would undermine the market competitiveness of factors of production on both sides and the welfare of consumers.

Under the framework of free trade, oversupply is unlikely to persist for a long time, and will only appear briefly in exceptional circumstances. For example, prices did not fall immediately as supply exceeded demand because of a lack of adequate information. Competition around price and quality and free trade is the answer to all the problems.

In recent years, Chinese companies have become more efficient, competitive and technologically advanced in some areas, gradually surpassing some Western companies and taking an increasing share of the market.

On this basis, China has run huge trade surpluses with most Western economies and the countries traditionally affiliated with them. As a result, the United States and the West began to dislike free trade, even though it was the trade model it advocated.

The accusations of the US and the West do not hold water

As China achieved unprecedented economic success based on playing by the rules, developed countries began to accuse China of intellectual property infringement, dumping, and posing a threat to national security.

More recently, they have trumpeted China's so-called "capacity process" problem, which has led to oversupply. U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen recently said that could lead to a flood of exports of some goods at low prices.

So are the so-called low prices relative to those of inefficient Western companies? Consumers in China and the rest of the world will benefit from lower prices, including American consumers. If low prices are the result of productivity and efficiency gains, then Western companies should act together to become more competitive.

Assuming that there really is overcapacity and low-priced exports, and that this is the result of government policies to promote exports, then we can analyze it from three perspectives.


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