, i think there's a lot that the wto does that only the wto can do that is not easy for the world tounderstand. and since in the last 50 years we've seen this rise of the administrative state there's the work that it done in sort of bringing together regulatory convergence at the wto. that even we saw it with the pandemic. the depository of the laws and restrictions. even right now, the pandemic there's a lot of people saying it should actually be in wto, not at who. i am very keen for that to be understood and that role to be strengthened because it's not in the general conversations about trade. wto is more than just, it's an actual convener of regulators, you know, and the regulator mentality is different than a trade negotiator, and these two are converging in the wto. regulators tend to be more territorial and regulators, they're interested in bargaining. and interested in world peace and the role of the wto is key and communicating that and strengthening that role, i'm wondering your thoughts. sorry to be long winded. >> very quickly because i know people are waiting, absolutel

the reform of the wto system is tied to the consensus at the wto that the entire wto ought to be reformed to reflect the economy we are living in. and to be able to keep up with the changes in our economy since the wto was established almost 30 years ago. wto reform, broadly, because i also want to make clear the united states and our team has a mission to engage across the board. we have a special responsibility on dispute settlements. we are engaging at the committee level, we are bringing written proposals every meeting. we are also leaning in on how to make this a more functional negotiating forum. >> you know my fixation on the clock. amb. tai: we are seeking a system that will help two parties resolve a trade dispute, to be a dispute settlement system, as the system was intended. the dispute settlement system has evolved into an area for judicial litigating. to your point about the clock. it allows countries to seek through litigation what they could not accomplish by negotiation. the results have significantly damaged u.s. interests through an interpretation that shields china's no

wto rules, you know, the old fashioned trade agreement really. so what you need to do, update the wto to deal with these new issues, maybe there needs to be a new body. it's it's antiquated and out of step. i just want to remind the audience, if you're watching along with us, please, your questions and comments in the texture on youtube. we'd love to have your questions china's big topic and you can susan knows a lot and you can ask anything you would like so let's get to hu jintao who you was a leader before jinping and who we saw in a rather sad scene the last recent congress being assisted from the stage, the end. he's basically your main the guy who you leader who you describe as having set the stage for this achievement of power by seeing ping what was it that he and what is meaning what were the specific aspects of his of his role. well i believe that child was a well-meaning girl who who rural but he was first among equals. he wasn't very forceful leader and the standing in a was expanded to nine members including the the security czar who

wto rules, you know, the old fashioned trade agreement really. so what you need to do, update the wto to deal with these new issues, maybe there needs to be a new body. it's it's antiquated and out of step. i just want to remind the audience, if you're watching along with us, please, your questions and comments in the texture on youtube. we'd love to have your questions china's big topic and you can susan knows a lot and you can ask anything you would like so let's get to hu jintao who you was a leader before jinping and who we saw in a rather sad scene the last recent congress being assisted from the stage, the end. he's basically your main the guy who you leader who you describe as having set the stage for this achievement of power by seeing ping what was it that he and what is meaning what were the specific aspects of his of his role. well i believe that child was a well-meaning girl who who rural but he was first among equals. he wasn't very forceful leader and the standing in a was expanded to nine members including the the security czar who

without the wto it is a state of nature.n the last ministerial meeting, on the covid-19 vaccines illustrates despite the challenges the wto actually can work under the right conditions. to that end, there are mixed messages on the support for the wto and commitment to abide by the decisions and rules even if we don't like the outcome of the individual cases. i know you worked hard on reform. can you update us with progress on this area? >> i would be delighted to. we are doing so much work on reform it's frustrating for me that is not more people know about it because these issues can get technical. all this is happening in geneva which is far away from washington, d.c. i know how much you care about it whether it's on the committee processes and the negotiating function or settlements my team shows up to every meeting with new ideas. our motto is to reform by doing and to put ourselves out there as a model for reform, to not just talk about it but behave in the way that we would like members to behave which is to be very en

um, well, that possibility exists in wto rules.you 're talking about creating risks to your national security. you can violate trading rules. so, the united states is the country that violates the wto rules to the greatest extent and actually blocked the activities of the wto, let me remind you that anti-russian sanctions. and the so-called sanctions and, uh, regulatory measures that the united states is trying to use itself and impose on its allies in trade with china and in technology exchange with china and in other matters. in general, they also violate the rules of the world trade organization. yes, the rules of the world trade organization, world trade in general, which has changed so much in recent times, especially in the sense that when everyone talks about violations, for example, in some principles of foreign trade, they usually say that international law has disappeared somewhere here, as which the united states constantly appeals to states here there was another meeting. it is, as it were , of a less economical nature,

and so i think we're in this con, between the storm and wto. i get, i guess, just wants to announce that is over. but that doesn't mean it's over and not by a long shot, especially when wastewater is so high. and the risk of these new variance still remains very great. isn't bad record high infections and we had the w h o director general say the one person still does every 3 minutes from cove and 19. so how is this pandemic being managed today around the world? yeah, so in terms of infections they're saying, oh, don't worry about infections, but you know, infections, of course, there's a chance of long cobit, you know, long code. it is not, uh, is effects about one and 3 people were effective. and the vaccine only reduce the risk of long covered by like 10 to 2 percent. so infections still carry a lot of risk, but it just, nobody's dying of it. and if nobody's dying, adapt much day basically, you know, don't care. and in many ways it's very frustrating because hospital part infections, which is what is that the record high in many countries in

buy, and processed products and customs policy are still built into us within the framework of the wto now the statesman is quite serious, as if there is no modern psychiatry and psychology , they say that in the end it is very beneficial for russia, and whoever wants to develop russian industry represents the interests of russia's enemies, i quote close to the text. we immediately tell whom, because you know who says it, naturally strange affairs of the russian federation and those who want the russian statement to be on the site. and those who want russia to argue that russia should leave this one, they are close to me about the collapse of our industry. as a result, there can be no normal development of industry, i understand, well, that is, it was said by one of the officials, or is it just your conclusion. this is the conclusion from mead's conclusion on the site. but the fact that you regulate 98% of the difference is simply not there. sorry this is simple connection. no, michael, i don't mind. just when you say what i do. here is one moment, if you say that there are no official

back then we always had an old wto restaurant on tverskaya , you tell me on the corner.es, you know everything, so sasha and i went there, almost every day. and if it's not a performance, then it's early, if it's a performance, it's after the performance, the restaurant closed at about 12 o'clock at night, and we went there, we have independents. money or not? and there were cases when sasha and i went to creative meetings, like you, you know, to earn money around the country. so we were returning, and when we landed in moscow, the first place we went to, we went to the wto restaurant to give about 150-200 rubles. for those times. these are giant games. this is a huge amount of money, and we could not pay for a month, and sasha was so loved and treated with sympathy. well sasha was already a superstar. and i'm like, in short, don quixote and sancho, you don't forget, you forget it about the fact that sasha was a handsome woman. i was a character artist. what are the present to date loved? well, who love such such. yes, you don’t need to be different, they loved another t

china is a full member of the wto and will be a full partner in the global trading system. >> we will be than next great capital? [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] u.s. deputy chief in geneva says this as transparent as the government subsidy. we will seek faster progress to join the wto. ♪♪ [inaudible] ♪♪ chinese hackers outnumber cyber personnel by elise 50-1. >> we remain committed to developing free trade in investment. promote trade and investment in the facilitation. ♪♪ we must remain committed to developing free trade. the ttp took advantage of our technology our know-how and are capital. once they felt ready they began to decouple from us or they began to decouple from us because it was never about reciprocity. now the air of wishful thinking is over. the economic warfare uses any and all that rich to course us and our allies in its time we defend ourselves and the free world. in so doing it's important to remember there's no such thing as a truly private business in china. business like everything else serve the chinese communist party has political goal. the national intel

china is a full member of the wto and will be a full partner in the global trading system. >> we will be than next great capital? [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] u.s. deputy chief in geneva says this as transparent as the government subsidy. we will seek faster progress to join the wto. ♪♪ [inaudible] ♪♪ chinese hackers outnumber cyber personnel by elise 50-1. >> we remain committed to developing free trade in investment. promote trade and investment in the facilitation. ♪♪ we must remain committed to developing free trade. the ttp took advantage of our technology our know-how and are capital. once they felt ready they began to decouple from us or they began to decouple from us because it was never about reciprocity. now the air of wishful thinking is over. the economic warfare uses any and all that rich to course us and our allies in its time we defend ourselves and the free world. in so doing it's important to remember there's no such thing as a truly private business in china. business like everything else serve the chinese communist party has political goal. the national intel

and prevent an uncontrolled arms race, by this time a certain balance had been reached between the wtonato, which allowed soviet diplomacy, as it were, the cherished goal of fixing it, the post-war status quo, but if you look at the american shift, that what reasons were his united states here, too, parity. e, military-strategic e, played an important role, because it became clear to the americans that the further continuation of a linear uncontrolled arms race. first of all, it's dangerous. secondly, it does not make sense by that time this situation of the current mutual assured destruction appeared, beyond which further build-up. that is, each side could respond to a nuclear fall and could not be defeated in this parallel to the first detente in the ussr actually curtailed attempts at internal economic reforms. so the economic factor played a significant role if our preparatory working materials on preparation were greek. themselves a soviet-american seventy-second year. in its economic trade part a is the preparation of a trade agreement. this is a whole complex of other agreements

attraction of investments will continue and the process of privatization of uzbekistan plans to join the wton the near future during the visit of the president, so that german chancellor olaf scholz would somehow declare his intention to take uzbekistan in this matter, in addition to stimulate an agreement on expanded partnership and cooperation between tashkent and the european union. in addition, berlin intends to invest $ 9 billion in the economy of uzbekistan in the near future, kyrgyzstan called on the united states not to interfere in in internal affairs, the reason was the statement of congressman michael mccolo, who called the decision of the court in bishkek to stop the work of the local branch of radio liberty, the reason for the banal spread of false information on the air for imposed freedom, was a blatant attack on free media. immediately stood up from across the ocean. tough answer. the press secretary of the president had to be the judiciary in our country is independent and makes its own decisions, no one has the right to interfere in its work, kyrgyzstan is an open and free

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i look back at when we let china into the wto. any of us are in congress at the time when that happened. the argument was bring them into the wto the going to westernize, reform, liberalize their ways. here we are 20 years later there some spotty things we can find. i would argue they've really taken advantage of the and many of our global economic systems we have in place. we hear a lot from people in d.c. particular in business community, we need engagement. we need diplomacy. people apologize for the ccp. i look at it is been alluded to here today just in the last four years here you have heard about obviously in ukraine china sided with putin in an unprovoked illegal invasion, right? you talk about unbreakable bond with putin. the covid outbreak originally what did the ccp do question work they blames it on the u.s. army look at the deceitfulness related in the diplomacy that's been put across the globe. democracy doesn't work anymore. that's what she tells people around the globe. it was a two by my colleague, the fentanyl st

. >> wto minutes -- two minutes left, we are going to do a 180 here. you are probably the first son-in-law in history to write a biography of your mother-in-law. talk about rhoda. >> she was an anti-apartheid activist in south africa. she was appointed to the human rights commission by nelson mandela. she was a black feminist. by the end of her life she was a conservative trump supporter. she did not label herself as conservative, nor as liberal or left wing, marxist, in the early is of her career. what she was ultimately was someone who believed passionately in freedom. and she stood for human rights and for integrity, and fought against corruption wherever she saw it. she believed trump was a good president for the u.s. because he said he was going to drain the swamp. she saw american politics from an outsiders point of view and believed america had a lot of swap to drain. so she championed trump as someone who she believed could clean out washington, and she still believed very fervently that that was necessary. i think that traces the long arc of h

everything themselves, then we, in compliance with e, will find a way, er, of our interaction with wtod support our manufacturers. the main thing is that agricultural production is beneficial . we are very much asked for at least a short comment on our business, too, business has gone on in russia in georgia and bakiriya roman dear vladimir vladimirovich good afternoon. a thank you so much for this opportunity to thank you personally on behalf of business russia my name is roman bakiriya. recently, i was elected the general council of business russia, where i represent our company moscow business brokerage. well, i am also the business ambassador of georgia as part of the activities of business russia, so i wanted to thank you for your decision to resume direct, and i messages and a visa-free regime between russia and georgia. i probably, like no one else, understand how important it is for citizens of russia and georgia to have the possibility of direct flights, so once again thank you very much. yeah, uh, so here imagine i always try. eh, how would you distribute everything. uh, ever

>> i tell you, that, the participation in the wto, the fact that we still allow them to call themselveshey can borrow from the world bank, all of these things need to be addressed in a diplomatic fashion. and instead of doing that, again, we're finding ourselves on defense, as you you say. and the chinese take a very predatory posture in their region but also, as you mentioned, flying balloons over our country, attacking our systems with hackers, they're taking every opportunity he can to put pressure on america. maria: yeah, it's totally disturbing to see this in action in terms of a response. but i want to switch gears, ask you about the u.s.. florida governor ron desantis joining the 2024 race for president this week. i know that you've endorsed president trump for re-election and trump is still in the lead according to the polls, but there's many -- mega-donor, hal lambert, is joining a number of former trump supporters many supporting desantis. watch this. >> donald trump can only serve one term. he'll effectively be a lame duck almost on day onehe were to win. but i don't think he

remove these shackles, which have thrown on the wto obligations there to fulfill other international obligations. e organizations themselves, they do nothing. and we did a decent job, so now the yoke has been thrown off. everything will be fine. today said that one and a half million, and citizens of the regions received russian passports. tell us how are your areas. in our region, we are part of those one and a half million. of course, about 150 thousand residents have already received passports, and this work is being actively carried out every day, almost every day from 800 to 1,000, or even more passports, people receive, ask documents, receive passports along with a passport. they, uh , already feel even more that they are at home in their native country on their land, which is very important, where they were born , grew up and historically. look even here now we often say novorossiya, novorossiya. this is novorossiya. why is it necessary, because , on the lands near azov, it was on the black sea coast, uh, only nomads crimean tatars walked, attacked people, took them away as pr

take off these shackles that she has thrown over there, the wto must also comply with other internationalhemselves , they do nothing. and we did a decent job, so now everything is scattered. everything will be fine. today said that one and a half million, and citizens of the regions received russian passports. tell us how are your areas. in our region, out of these one and a half million, of course, uh, about 1050,000 residents have already received passports, and this work is being actively carried out every day, almost every day, from 800.

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of people are familiar with this that there were big riots against the meeting of the wto in seattle starbucks windows got smashed and then the national media coverage of it was like, how did this happen? why are people angry at starbucks? where did this come from? so there are currents in the 90s that like exploded in the 2000s. but since 2000 i mean there was the 2008-2010 occupy movement the 2016 bernie sanders campaign just real centerings of critiques of capitalism. across the political spectrum exists now that definitely didn't exist in the 1990s, nick. the 1990s that wages seem to be rising, but actually weren't was that related to inflation. um, i don't see it. everyone was kind of like, oh look we fixed inflation. there isn't much of a problem. the idea. was that even though economics would later see a like stagnant wage growth. like the media was covering stories. i mean, i will say i was a college. no, i was a high school student in the in the late 1990s and there was a time when burger king was offering $3,000 signing bonuses. yeah. so there is this idea signing bonus for