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"protectionism is like holing up in a dark room: it gives the impression that one escapes from the rain and wind, but it is also being without the light of the sun and without the air". With what appeared to be a proverb invented for the occasion, the president of China, Xi Jinping, opened yesterday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, giving a fiery speech in support of globalization.
"we Must maintain our commitment to the development of the free market and of the investments, promoting the liberalization and facilitation of trade with the opening and with the rejection of protectionism," he said in the shelter of mountain swiss the leader of a party that still retains the word communist in their name.
Although Xi not appointed to that day after tomorrow will become president of the united states, some parts of his speech seemed clear answers to the threats of tariffs against China, spoken by Donald Trump in the campaign. "Countries should attend to their interests, taking into account the broader context and to refrain from doing so at the expense of others," said Xi in the first visit of a chinese president to Davos. And in a tone more threatening: "No one will come out winning in a war of tariffs".
Also present in Davos, the advisor of Trump Anthony Scaramucci felt obliged to defend the position of the property tycoon on international trade. "We have allowed goods and services to enter freely to the united States, but we have also allowed our goods and services are hampered in other countries," he said. According to Scaramucci, the only thing he asks Trump is symmetry in trade agreements: "In a way paradoxical, the president Trump could be one of the great hopes of the movement globalization".
So paradoxical as to see the secretary-general of the chinese Communist Party to give lessons of globalization to major employers and leaders of the capitalist world, while the United Kingdom leaves the European Union and the U.S. elects a president reluctant to libremercado.
"it makes No sense to hold the economic globalization of the problems with the world because it is simply not so," said Xi. To justify them, he referred to two recent crises: the financial and the refugees in the Middle East and North Africa. According to Xi, the first is the responsibility of the insatiable quest for profits on the part of the capital and of the serious deficiencies in the regulation, unable to avoid the financial bubbles and the high volatility of the markets. In the refugee crisis, said Xi, the culprits were the war and the turbulent regional, but not globalization.
In support of the speech pro markets of the president, the State Council of China announced yesterday a further opening to foreign investment in the sectors of mining, infrastructure, services and technology. But what is certain is that, despite the defense of the free market of Xi, China is still combining liberalization with strong injections of public money into key sectors and limits to free competition. By the time, the formula has proven successful. As he recalled yesterday’s Xi, "it is expected that the economy of China to grow 6.7% in 2016, a rate that still remains among the highest in the world." For those who are concerned about the slowdown of their growth, Xi explained that the chinese GDP was now "much, much bigger than in the past and generates more production that when I was growing at double-digit rates".
Even if a war of tariffs it would be very detrimental to all the parties, the rhetoric of anti-trade Trump gives China the opportunity to occupy the space left by the united States. If Trump meets with what was promised and leave the commercial treaty of the countries of the Pacific (TPP), Beijing will become the key actor of the area with its Economic Partnership Extended Regional (RCEP, for its acronym in English), a free trade alternative that excludes the U.S. (like the TPP to exclude China).
to Be recognized as a market economy is the next target of China. When in 2001 joined the World Trade Organization (WTO), set a deadline of 15 years to a recognition that I would avoid the anti-dumping measures that the U.S. and the UEaplican regularly against chinese products.The deadline is in December but its trading partners in the WTO are asked to postpone that because estimated that China is subsidizing and maintaining artificially low some of the prices of export.
Beijing protest in the WTO but still forward. Among other resources, with speeches such as that of Xi in Davos. "The dates are grown among thistles and thorns", said yesterday the president of China."Nothing is perfect in the world".w
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