"WHEN some foreign nation restrains ... the importation of some of our manufactures ... revenge naturally dictates retaliation.”
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James Cameron is in China for the premier of his new film, Avatar, and has some words for Beijing: Mr. Hu, tear down this wall! The wall being China's restriction of 20 import films per year. This on the heels of the WTO ruling that Beijing was illegally restricting movie and other media imports.
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"WTO officials rejected China's argument that a defense of its "public morals" gave it the right to impose laws such as an order obliging foreign firms to distribute media through a state-owned firm called China Film Group Corp."
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A new paper argues that broad Internet censorship regimes might already be illegal under World Trade Organization rules about free trade. But no government seems eager to take on China at the WTO over the issue.
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China on Tuesday invoked defense of its "public morals" in appealing a World Trade Organization ruling against restrictions on distribution of Hollywood movies and other Western media, according to a copy of the appeal reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
read more »The WTO has found in favour of the States in a long-standing US-China unfair trade dispute that may see Chinese having more access to American-made media, music and movies.
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After seven months of WTO discussions, Xinhua will relinquish its role as a regulator of foreign financial information suppliers. Foreign companies such as Reuters and Bloomberg will no longer have to compete against their regulator.
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What I had expected was that the Chinese government would fly off the handle, accuse the EU and America of being preposterous and out of line, and deny everything. Or put the blame on someone else. That has been the Chinese way of dealing with negative attention in almost all ways. I was wrong.
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