Nevertheless, there are certain assumptions about this trade deal that require further investigation. News editor Jim Wilkson insightfully describes that the human rights records of both the US and China are atrocious. The environmental records of both countries are fairly questionable as well, the character of both societies' extensive river damming and resource-wasting hydrological projects being primary examples. This focus on the similarities between the different nations is misleading, though. Perhaps it could be said that we have been witness to the signing of an agreement between the elite corporate capitalists on one hand and the elite corporate communists on the other.
Global trade is an inevitable aspect of the new century.
The question is how that trade will be structured. Corporate globalization and its neo-liberal economics do not prioritize the protection of human rights and the environment, as this new trade deal exemplifies. History is for us to make, not just to observe. Gary Graham Hughes grad student environmental studies Respect different opinions Dear Editor, I would like to call attention to a bothersome issue that was recently brought to my attention. On Wednesday morning, the posters were all removed from the kiosk on the Oval.