It can also blur distinctive food, dress and lifestyles of countries, push financial panics across borders at fiber-optic speed, and move decisions once made at home to faceless executives thousands of miles away. With all that very much in mind, the WTO delegates were expected to press further toward economic oneness. If an agreement is reached, each country would, in effect, have to trust its neighbors a bit more. At the same time, the deal would be crafted in such a way that each country would believe that it had defended its sovereign uniqueness. That won't be easy.
Militaristic terminology can slip in as trade discussions proceed.
No, suggested the French agriculture and fisheries minister, Jean-Andre Glavany, who spoke up for subsidy programs that help keep the villages in existence. I oppose the idea of vast empty tracts of land. For similar reasons of preserving something about the home country, Canada reins in American magazines, China limits the showing of American movies and Japan restricts the eating of American rice. So there's a banding together to protect the national essence. If there's a common theme to this ire, it's loss of control.