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...Clyde Prestowitz Author, Three Billion New Capitalists As leaders of the countries at the heart of the trade picture and with the highest greenhouse gas emissions, Presidents Bush and Hu would do well to make establishing cooperation on dealing effectively with these two issues the major part of their upcoming agenda...
...showdown is averted in this spat, another would come soon, and then another, until one shakes to the core the political relations between the two economic superpowers. "If there is maybe one more 'standard' deal, it will be the last one," predicts Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute. Chalmers Johnson, president of the Japan Policy Research Institute, warns, "In the post-cold war period, at a time when security ties are no longer holding the two sides together, trade disputes could become a way of life." Some might reply that U.S.-Japanese trade disputes have been...
...Writers such as James Fallows (More Like Us), Clyde Prestowitz (Trading Places) and Karel van Wolferen (The Enigma of Japanese Power) argue that it is because Japan remains fundamentally different from the U.S. in economy and culture and is committed to playing by unfair rules that discriminate against imports. There is truth in that: Japan is a profoundly communal society organized on almost every level to protect the interests of the Japanese -- the welfare of the nation, its business community and its people are one and the same...
...pier, they couldn't find the merchandise -- whatever they could do to keep us from getting our product into the store, they did. They had all kinds of inspections that we did conform to, but then they make you wait a month before they inspect the product." Says Clyde Prestowitz: "Not every Japanese economic success is due to its business virtuosity. There is also collusion, dumping and predatory pricing...
...Mexican President)) Carlos Salinas de Gortari has said Mexico wants Asian investment," says Clyde Prestowitz, president of the Economic Strategy Institute, a Washington think tank. "He wants it in high-value-added, high- technology industries ((that will)) be exporting to the U.S. What we emphatically don't want to do is to make Mexico safe for Japanese investment." Prestowitz' solution is for the U.S. to induce foreign investors to export certain percentages of what they make in Mexico to third countries...