The leadership of Mr. Minister arrived in America, but failed to make significant progress on the trade issue they most wanted to achieve a breakthrough.
Politicians in America are constrained by the House of Representatives and the Senate in legislation. These congressmen also have different views on various issues based on the interests of their own constituencies.
The trade issue between China and the United States is now at a very delicate stage. The annual trade volume between the two countries is growing rapidly, but the annual most-favored-nation review is like the sword of Damocles hanging above our heads.
In addition, the trade between the two countries has not yet benefited as many American people as possible, so lawmakers consider the most-favored-nation status issue more from a conceptual perspective.
If you want to keep this treatment, you have to spend a lot of political resources on it every year. The opponents are not capable enough to overturn what Commander William has decided.
But if you want to go one step further and restore the status of a contracting country in GATT, you are unable to do so. This needs to be approved by the House of Representatives and the Senate before it can be signed by the president before it can take effect.
The main purpose of China's leadership is to speed up the restoration of GATT at this moment. Because in April this year, at the last meeting of the Uruguay Round negotiations held in Marrakesh, the members of GATT decided to establish a new international
Organization, used to replace GATT, although it has played a lot of roles in international trade, it is still a temporary treaty framework.
This new organization decided to be established by the Marrakesh Agreement on January 1 next year is called the WTO.
Since the end of the Cold War, many parties have also wanted to occupy a more favorable position in the new international order. America and Europe both want to become the new center of international trade. In addition, although they have been suppressed by America for nearly ten years, their strength
Japan is still very strong... These three countries have become the backbone of promoting this transformation.
After the end of the Cold War, there was no possibility of failure in what the three economies, the United States, the European Community, and Japan, wanted to achieve jointly. Therefore, the establishment of this new organization was announced without much resistance.
Member states of the original GATT will automatically become founding members of the WTO as long as their domestic parliaments pass the "Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization".
However, countries that are not formal GATT members must re-apply to join the WTO. This application must be approved by all WTO member states. This is an important principle of the new WTO formal organization - the "principle of unanimity of member states."
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The applicant country must hold one-on-one bilateral negotiations with all member countries to reach agreement on market access commitments, tariff reductions, service openings, etc. If a member country disagrees, it cannot join.
This made China angry because it was one of the founding members of GATT in 1947. However, it withdrew from the GATT in 1950 due to Cold War confrontation...
Since 1986, China has wanted to restore its status as a contracting party and automatically become a new member of the WTO, eliminating the extremely cumbersome process of applying for membership.
However, the resumption of GATT negotiations has been obstructed by the American government. The reason for this is not only that the starting points of the two countries are very different, but also that the three economies of America, the European Community and Japan want to promote GATT
Important reasons for the transition to the WTO.
GATT is an old agreement with a history of fifty years. At that time, international trade was mainly in the trade of goods. Therefore, the various regulations in GATT mainly revolved around the trade in goods and the regulations on the collection and reduction of tariffs by various countries.
However, since the 1990s, disputes over trade in services and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights have become the main aspects of GATT disputes, surpassing trade in goods.
In addition to the original GATT agreement on trade in goods and tariffs, the WTO contract negotiations must also reach agreement on trade in services (GATS) and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).
The Uruguay Round negotiations began in 1986, and it was only last year that the three economies, mainly America, Europe, and Japan, quarreled and quarreled over the framework of the three agreements.
China wants to join this global trade system, and China wants to free ride. These three leaders do not agree. They must follow everyone's practice and argue again. Only after they reach a consensus can they sign an agreement.
From being a contracting party in 1947, to withdrawing in 1950, to applying for reinstatement and becoming a contracting party in 1986, and then failing to restore the status of a contracting party this year, it can only apply to join the WTO as a non-GATT member. China's difficult struggle in international trade,
It has been through several ups and downs.
Therefore, with China's whole country focusing on economic and trade as the main focus of its diplomacy with the United States, Ronald expected that the "Fugitive World" contract issue would receive some high-level attention and be resolved.
After all, the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is the key to joining the WTO.
Unlike software companies like Microsoft that have encountered massive piracy in China, Hollywood has legitimately signed an agreement with your distribution company.
If intellectual property issues regarding products such as software, toys, and stationery can be excused on the grounds that there is no agreement and need to be renegotiated, then Hollywood movies are a benchmark for observing whether China is sincere in abiding by its commitments under TRIPS.
Ronald, who was full of confidence in this, also started negotiating with the head office for the approval of his new film "Forrest Gump" and "Speed" as the second batch of split films.
This year is nominally the first year for Hollywood blockbuster movies to enter China, but in fact only one "The Fugitive" will be released at the end of the year. Next year, several of his movies will be the first Hollywood movies that have a deep impression on Chinese audiences.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Audiences have some inertia when watching movies. Ronald, who has taken the lead, can seize the opportunity in the future within the approval quota of 20 movies per year.
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"Jury selection in the O.J. Simpson case will be held in the Superior Court in downtown Los Angeles. Prosecutor Marsha Clark said she has full confidence that the jurors here will deliver justice."
As usual, the O.J. Simpson case is still being reported in the news every day. When Ronald meets his friends now, the first thing they often ask him is what he thinks of O.J. and whether he did it.
There have been some minor changes in the prosecution of the case. The female assistant prosecutor Marsha Clark has now become the real chief prosecutor of the case. Another white male assistant prosecutor who originally presided over the prosecution with her was transferred.
took the case, with input from Marsha Clark, adding a black man, Chris Darden.
Although he is a newcomer, he has been well received by the Los Angeles prosecutor system, and Martha Clark believes that his addition can strengthen the prosecutor's persuasiveness.
Ronald shook his head. He was very familiar with this routine. Many stars in Hollywood would find ways to recruit some of their good friends to join the cast as supporting roles after they were confirmed to star in a certain movie.
Martha Clark's original companions were equally matched with her, but now that she has a younger brother, her opinion will dominate everything.
Moreover, this Dutton is a black man, and he is also tall and talented. In a place in the city center where blacks are the majority, the majority of the 12 jurors selected must be black.
With such a dark-skinned prosecutor representing the people to prosecute OJ, who is also black, those jurors may find Darden more persuasive than a middle-aged white male prosecutor.
Since the riots of the past two years, the vast majority of black people in Los Angeles have always believed that if you fall into the hands of white people, they will frame you even if you have never done anything. Now Darden has
Such a one of his own, OJ will definitely not be intentionally wronged.
"I completely disagree with Martha Clark and her boss, the prosecutor. Why should the trial be held in downtown Los Angeles instead of in Santa Monica, where the incident occurred?"
After the news, there is an in-depth analysis column. When Ronald sits down, it is not like watching a TV series. He watches the in-depth news analysis of the OJ case every day, and invites experts to express their opinions from various aspects.
"Martha Clark seemed to imply in an interview that it would be more beneficial for the prosecution to have more women on the jury, whether these women are black or white. They are all very disgusted with the matter of domestic violence.
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"Let's hope she's right, I'm not optimistic. Downtown, hehe, you know..."
"You seem to be suggesting that the majority black population in the inner city will bias the jury in favor of OJ?"
"I didn't say that. You think so. And you see, even he thinks so. There's no reason why the prosecutor can't see this."
Several experts almost quarreled in front of the TV show. Ronald listened to their arguments carefully and calmly, and still felt that the view that having many female jurors would be beneficial to the prosecution sounded very reasonable.
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Because he has made many so-called feminist films in Hollywood with women as the protagonists and narrative centers. Ronald is well aware that in America today, domestic violence against women is a social problem that cannot be ignored.
Previously, Jodie Foster was able to win her first Oscar as a dark horse because of the subject of domestic violence and date rape. The box office of this movie was also surprisingly higher than expected.
But this is not a topic that is often discussed in society. It is a tacit understanding that everyone knows about this problem but does not speak out publicly. If those female jurors have such a knot in their hearts, then it is obvious that OJ Simpson’s prospects are not good.
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"Do you think he did it? Ronald, it must not be right, we all know what the LAPD did two years ago."
"I've seen a lot of evidence about OJ on TV, and I want to put it into my stand-up comedy show and write jokes, hahaha..."
Ronald had an impromptu idea after the NBA game and asked Spike Lee and Whoopi Goldberg to make a movie that satirized the Knicks coach and the Dolan family. The first draft of the script was already in place.
The two main creators, Spike Lee and Whoopi Goldberg, brought the script to Ronald's house to discuss the project with him and listen to Ronald's opinions.
As soon as they met, the two started chatting about OJ Simpson. Spike Lee believed that OJ was framed, while Whoopi Goldberg was surprisingly sympathetic to OJ Simpson. Not that women would hate such domestic violence men.
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Ronald felt something was wrong, and was not in a hurry to read the script. Instead, he asked Whoopi, "Do you think domestic violence is not something OJ can do?"
"Of course he can do it. I saw on the news that OJ had his ex-wife Nicole Brown call 911 several times a few years ago because she assaulted him. This man can do anything."
"Then why are you?" Ronald was puzzled.
"You know, Ronald, in the environment where we grew up, domestic violence was the most minor problem that women could encounter. We black women don't call us just because our husband slapped us twice.
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"So, do you think he did it?" Ronald was confused and asked this question.
"Not necessarily. Didn't I say that there was a gang fighting a civil war that night?"
"You don't seem to like OJ very much, but you're not sure it was him?" Ronald got a hint of what his black friend was thinking.
"Hey, I've seen a lot of black people like OJ. As soon as he gets rich and becomes famous, he stops hanging out with black people. Their friends are all white. You see, when he ran away, he always put money on a white friend.
He went to Shan's house and couldn't find any of his black teammates in college or the NFL. The last time he answered the phone, he borrowed the name from the white coach who coached him back then."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Aha..." Ronald suddenly realized.
It seems that the prosecutor who is obsessed with imitating the movie star Sigourney Weaver made a mistake. It is true that black women hate domestic violence men. But don’t forget that the black community is full of murders, trafficking, robberies, and other vicious cases.
Domestic violence is already the lightest form of felony crime.
They have a natural envy and jealousy towards people like OJ who have separated themselves from the black community after becoming so successful. In their view, the victim Brown's calls to the police were all done by fragile white girls.
In addition, OJ divorced his first black wife and went to marry his lover, Nicole Brown. The black women on the jury were even more dissatisfied. They really didn’t have much sympathy for the victim...
Maybe I’ll secretly curse in my heart that I deserve it.
"Judge Ito, who is in charge of hearing the case, said that he will carefully consider whether to allow television media to broadcast the trial..."
At this time, another piece of news came on the TV news.
Ronald's mind moved. Court trials are generally not allowed to be broadcast. Let a white woman who can only show off be the chief prosecutor, a fledgling black boy be the second seat, and an Asian judge is ready to allow television broadcast.
The Los Angeles prosecutors chose the city center as the venue for the trial, which is obviously beneficial to OJ...
There are various signs that there may be some powerful people behind the scenes, who are afraid that OJ will cause riots like the ones a few years ago, so they have given him many convenient conditions.
What these politicians are really concerned about is that no unexpected incident will occur that will affect their status and the upcoming local elections. As for whether justice is promoted, it is not a key factor that ranks high in these people's considerations.
"By the way, I haven't congratulated you yet. Ronald Forrest Gump topped the box office charts for the third time in its seventh week. This has never happened before, right?"
Spike Lee is the director, and he noticed the changes in the box office rankings last weekend. The box office of "In Pursuit" and "Weirdos in Disguise" both declined at a rate of more than 20% every week.
And Forrest Gump seems to have taken some kind of drug, and it has been strong and slowly dropped by single digits. So I made it to the seventh week, and watched the Lion King, True Lies, The Flintstones and other powerful movies, three times
After falling from the top spot at the box office, it climbed back up three times to reach the top again.
"As far as I know, there is no movie that can do this. Maybe I'm lucky and the competition is not very fierce?" Ronald was very happy that Spike Lee's flattery scratched his itch.
"Not intense? The Lion King, True Lies, and The Man in Disguise, these are not intense? Your standards for intensity seem to be much higher than ours. Does it have to be Jurassic Park for it to be intense?" Whoopi
·Gothenburg also noticed that Ronald was boasting in a low-key manner, and quickly gave him some compliments.
"Hahaha, I'm just being humble. The script you came up with is very good. I will ask David Simkins to follow up and find a script doctor to polish it, and then the project can be approved for financing."