[ The Guardian reports (http://www.guardian.co.uk/wto/article/0,2763,1041883,00.html) that the US in Cancun is "...behaving like the Soviet Union in the Eighties. It's making it difficult to know what they want."

Meanwhile, just as under the Bush Administration military alliances have been shaken to the core, economic relationships that may have complex reverberations are being trifled with.

Also in this article, and perhaps worthy of another thread, is an interesting allusion to "a deepening alliance between Brazil, India and China, representing half the world's population. Senior government officials in Mexico say this will alter the geo-political balance, and it is understood to have made Washington deeply uneasy about a new rival to challenge its economic supremacy."

Alarmism or the beginning of a serious crisis? I think if the US is going to abandon structured international trade negotiation and go it alone, in as vulnerable and isolated a manner as recent military crusades, there is Trouble ahead. For all of us.

Well I am glad that China,India, and Brazil who account for about $10 trillion worth of capitalism are getting the balls to counter the traditional powers. Yes the west has invested quite a bit of money in these countries in China alone around $900 billion worth, and Brazil around $220 billion. So these states are not little children anymore. That is a consequnce of Globalization that states are going to suck the industry out of the "west", and they will eventually become dependant on their good will. It sure is interesting times. I wonder is the US head down the USSR's road?