The United States pays only lip service to free market principles, favoring Washington lobbyists and campaign contributors who demand just the opposite. Indeed, it is America’s own agricultural subsidies that helped kill, at least for now, the so-called Doha Development Round of trade negotiations that were supposed to give poor countries new opportunities to enhance their growth.
美国人喜欢认为只要贫困国家开放本国市场，经济繁荣就会接踵而至。令人遗憾的是，只要涉及到农业问题，这只能是一种夸夸其谈。美国对自由市场原则的支持仅限于说说而已，而一事当前还是站在要求恰好相反的华盛顿说客和竞选赞助者们一边。实际上，至少到目前为止，恰恰是美国自己的农业补贴在扼杀所谓的多哈发展回合贸易谈判中起到了重要作用，而多哈谈判原本的目的是为贫困国家发展经济创造全新的机会。