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June 5, 2015
Wikileaks has warned that governments negotiating a far-reaching global service agreement are 'surrendering a large part of their global sovereignty' and exacerbating the social inequality of poorer countries in the process.
The Trade in Services Agreement exposed in a 17 document dump by Wikileaks on Thursday relates to ongoing negotiations to lock market liberalisations into global law.
If a country like China wanted to join, it would have to scrap all discriminatory practices against foreign firms so discrimination against a foreign firm opening a hospital in China would be banned, for example.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/trade-agreements-like-tisa-tpp-and-ttip-will-sideline-national-laws-wikileaks-says-10299907.html
John_Doe80004
(156 posts)The already existing laws codified in the WTO agreements. We are already being sued for our food labelling regulations by Canada and mexico in the world court. It doesn't take a genius to see this will only increase under tpp.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Welcome to DU, btw.
John_Doe80004
(156 posts)My personal belief is that it has progressed to far and that corporate interests, lobbyist's, and big money are so deeply entrenched in the political process and so deeply in control now that any attempts to rise up and even peacefully try to regain control of the government in an effort to get them to start working for the benefit of the country and people again will only be met with militarized force and they will swat any kind of million citizen march down like a bunch of flies. This is the unfortunate reality of today and has been predicted in many books and movie's over the years. I'm very disappointed to see that this wasn't figures of literary imagine but a harbinger of what was to come.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)Control is often more elusive than the elite imagine it is and I remain hopeful that
this model they're relying on is what it is..unsustainable. By one means or another,
it will fall apart on them..unfortunately not likely without more people suffering as a
result before we get there.