Me and WTO.. just writing what's in my mind

沒有責任在身，果然無官一身輕。
很自由，想做什麼就做什麼。

Still excited about the idea of building myself up in an environment with different kinds of people. Fascinated with the wide range of interactions one can have with each other. Everybody is just so unique and so valuable you wanna respect them. At last we're coming to the same environment, the same culture, the same language. We start to understand and communicate, in the mist of all the differences, like upbringing, personality, values, religion, lifestyles, financial habits etc.

I'm really pretty naive about all these... but it's the first time I learned that you've got to expect spendings in Papua New Guinea just the same as those you spend in Australia. Reason? PNG has no local production. No farming. No industries. No jobs. People live with potatoes everyday. All goods are imported from Australia and other developed countries. Yes, ALL.

The Western Goddess of Justice, again.
This was the only thing that went across my mind - and stayed lingering for long hours - after I learn about all these.

Just as what I've mentioned earlier, I became much more open to yelling "Down Down WTO!" after last week. If that's what it means to open up a market, I'd rather Papua New Guinea remains in her old stone-age era, which was just 50 years ago.

Matters are complicated when you stand yourself on the developed world and look over to the developing world. But they were very simple when you stand on the developing world and look the other way round. Very simple. Just give up your wealth, give up your luxurious lifestyle.

The thing is simply bloody unfair.

I wonder what the EU / US trade commissioners feel when they concluded the Doha round last week. Both were working furiously hard trying to prevent the wealthiest from being less wealthy; in the face of two-thirds of the world who were trying to get a penny out of the wealthiests' pockets in order to sustain life.
And this was the Doha round. A round supposed to give priorities to bringing developing countries out of poverty.

I start to understand, why a lot of people wanted to abolish the WTO. It's all a matter of perspectives. People like to excuse themselves from understanding the heart of the matter by saying "Oh it's so complicated", while the solution lies in giving priorities - most of the time simple yet hard to do - to all the different parties whose interests conflicts each other. With a bit more tact, win-win situations, or near win-win, can be achieved. It's like cutting small pieces of fat gradually from the fat women and sticking them onto the poor thin man's body, while the fat lady feels no or minimal pain and thinks she's having a liposuction which is for her own good. There are still people out there who makes perfect sense and is brave enough to explore and work through the conflicting interests. To me, that may be the last bit of hope.