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发帖数: 2785 | 1 JEFFREY D. SACHS
NEW YORK
CONTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBE AND MAIL
PUBLISHED 21 HOURS AGO
UPDATED DECEMBER 12, 2018
Jeffrey D. Sachs is an American economist and the director of Columbia
University’s Center for Sustainable Development.
If, as Mark Twain reputedly said, history often rhymes, our era increasingly
recalls the period preceding 1914. And as with Europe’s great powers back
then, the United States, led by an administration intent on asserting
America’s dominance over China, is pushing the world toward disaster.
The context of the arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou – a dangerous move by
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration in its intensifying conflict
with China – matters enormously. The United States requested that Canada
arrest Ms. Meng in the Vancouver airport en route to Mexico from Hong Kong,
and then extradite her to the United States. Such a move is almost a U.S.
declaration of war on China’s business community. Nearly unprecedented, it
puts American business people travelling abroad at much greater risk of such
actions by other countries.
The United States rarely arrests senior business people, U.S. or foreign,
for alleged crimes committed by their companies. Corporate managers are
usually arrested for their alleged personal crimes (such as embezzlement,
bribery or violence) rather than their company’s alleged malfeasance. Yes,
corporate managers should be held to account for their company’s
malfeasance, up to and including criminal charges, but to start this
practice with a leading Chinese business person – rather than the dozens of
culpable U.S. CEOs and CFOs – is a stunning provocation to the Chinese
government, business community and public.
Ms. Meng is charged with violating U.S. sanctions on Iran. Yet, consider her
arrest in the context of the large number of companies, U.S. and non-U.S.,
that have violated America’s sanctions against Iran and other countries. In
2011, for example, JP Morgan Chase paid $88.3 million in fines in 2011 for
violating U.S. sanctions against Cuba, Iran and Sudan. Yet Jamie Dimon wasn
’t grabbed off a plane and whisked into custody.
And JP Morgan Chase was hardly alone in violating U.S. sanctions. Since 2010
, the following major financial institutions paid fines for such violations:
Banco do Brasil, Bank of America, Bank of Guam, Bank of Moscow, Bank of
Tokyo-Mitsubishi, Barclays, BNP Paribas, Clearstream Banking, Commerzbank,
Compass, Crédit Agricole, Deutsche Bank, HSBC, ING, Intesa Sanpaolo,
National Bank of Abu Dhabi, National Bank of Pakistan, PayPal, RBS (ABN Amro
), Société Générale, Toronto-Dominion Bank, Trans Pacific National Bank
(now known as Beacon Business Bank), Standard Chartered and Wells Fargo.
None of the CEOs or CFOs of these sanction-busting banks were arrested and
taken into custody for these violations. In all of these cases, the
corporation – rather than an individual manager – was held accountable.
Nor were they held accountable for the pervasive lawbreaking in the lead-up
to or aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, for which the banks paid a
staggering US$243 billion in fines, according to a recent tally. In light of
this record, Ms. Meng’s arrest is a shocking break with practice. Yes,
hold CEOs and CFOs accountable – but start at home in order to avoid
hypocrisy, self-interest disguised as high principle and the risk of
inciting a new global conflict.
Quite transparently, the U.S. action against Ms. Meng really seems to be
part of the Trump administration’s broader attempt to undermine China’s
economy by imposing tariffs, closing Western markets to Chinese high-
technology exports and blocking Chinese purchases of U.S. and European
technology companies. One can say, without exaggeration, that this is part
of an economic war on China – and a reckless one at that.
Huawei is one of China’s most important technology companies and therefore
a prime target in the Trump administration’s effort to slow or stop China’
s advance into several high-technology sectors. America’s motivations in
this economic war are partly commercial – to protect and favour laggard U.S
. companies – and partly geopolitical. They certainly have nothing to do
with upholding the international rule of law.
The U.S. appears to be trying to target Huawei especially because of the
company’s success in marketing cutting-edge 5G technologies globally. The U
.S. claims the company poses a specific security risk through hidden
surveillance capabilities in its hardware and software. Yet the U.S.
government has provided no evidence for this claim.
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-the-us-not-china-is-the-real
-threat-to-international-rule-of-law/ | p********1
发帖数: 2785 | 2 虽然一帮政屁说，中国崩溃就在明朝，但美国确实面对来自中国的前所未有的竞争。这
包括产品，标准，发展模式，国际关系，价值观念等等。这种竞争如果进入良性循环，
必须靠提供更有吸引力的产品，不能单靠打击、阻止别人。美国现在这么搞，毫无章法
，顾头不顾腚，显然是歇斯底里了。搅乱了世界，自己也就乱了。 | d**a
发帖数: 1 | | N****u
发帖数: 1700 | 4 也不一定，我帝现在只需要搅局，来获得最大的利益空间
【在 p********1 的大作中提到】
: 虽然一帮政屁说，中国崩溃就在明朝，但美国确实面对来自中国的前所未有的竞争。这
: 包括产品，标准，发展模式，国际关系，价值观念等等。这种竞争如果进入良性循环，
: 必须靠提供更有吸引力的产品，不能单靠打击、阻止别人。美国现在这么搞，毫无章法
: ，顾头不顾腚，显然是歇斯底里了。搅乱了世界，自己也就乱了。
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发帖数: 2785 | 5 搅局的结果是一起沉沦。
【在 N****u 的大作中提到】
: 也不一定，我帝现在只需要搅局，来获得最大的利益空间
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