&gt;what other country would allow this kind of nonsense to happen.<p>Trade is a 2 way street. If the west wants Indian and Chinese markets open to their goods (western brands are ubiquitous in those places), they will want concessions on services and immigration quotas.<p>Recent pushes by the US to open India&#x27;s retail sector would have wiped out millions of jobs, much more than the few thousand complained about here.