{"id":1791,"date":"2005-09-22T07:22:31","date_gmt":"2005-09-22T07:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=1791"},"modified":"2005-09-22T07:22:31","modified_gmt":"2005-09-22T07:22:31","slug":"our_tax_dollars_2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=1791","title":{"rendered":"Our Tax Dollars At Work for Hollywood: Anti-Copying Attaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thomaspmbarnett.com\/weblog\/archives2\/002325.html\">Tom Barnett<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>Commerce is making ready a team of intellectual property (IP) specialists to deploy to nations giving us fits on piracy. Sort of a WTO-enforcing SWAT team.<br \/>\nThe lead experience here is China, and that is all fine and good. This is where our &#8220;conflict&#8221; with China should really be centered: in economics and in rules.<br \/>\nOther countries targeted are all either New Core (Russia, India, Brazil) like China, or key Seam States (Thailand) or places where we&#8217;re making a special trade effort to shrink the Gap (Big Bang-land Middle East).<br \/>\nGood move, I say. One the White House can point to in upcoming trade pact battled with Congress, which, in its infinite wisdom, is moving more and more toward protections as a catch-all answer for America&#8217;s economic woes. Bad, stupid, ahistorical choice, but there it is.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Barnett: Commerce is making ready a team of intellectual property (IP) specialists to deploy to nations giving us fits on piracy. Sort of a WTO-enforcing SWAT team. The lead experience here is China, and that is all fine and good. This is where our &#8220;conflict&#8221; with China should really be centered: in economics and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}