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As a result, the tech giants, in particular, have achieved a new level of regulatory capture, allowing them to limit free speech when it serves their interests, expand into non-high-tech markets, and shape emerging global policy agendas, such as financial inclusion and e-commerce.
Meanwhile, Chinese young people and low-income households worry about high and rising home prices, job insecurity, and the fast-growing market power of a few tech
giants
squeezing small and medium-size enterprises.
The United States and Europe struggle on as wounded giants, casualties of their financial excesses and political paralysis.
While the government has not pursued adequate reform of state-owned enterprises, it has deliberately allowed new, largely private-owned technology
giants
to compete against state-owned banks and financial institutions.
Such a confrontation need not block progress on other issues, such as border security, investments in industries of the future, taxation of US tech giants, and the defense of multilateralism.
Just Say No to Agricultural Gene DrivesLAGOS – First, the agribusiness
giants
came to take our land and disrupt our food systems with synthetic pesticides, fertilizers, proprietary seeds, and genetically modified organisms (GMOs).
The current moment of American weakness coincides with a substantially changed international political environment, defined largely by the limits of US power, Europe’s ineffectiveness, and the emergence of new global
giants
like China and India.
It is not by chance that American
giants
like Apple, Amazon, and Google rule the world of high-tech.
The Internet, by contrast, evolved in a bottom-up way, managing to escape the telecommunication giants’ initial appeals for regulation.
Like reckless giants, they did not heed the omens.
Though Facebook and many other digital
giants
have signed on to a European Commission “code of conduct” on policing hate speech and disinformation, much more needs to be done.
Regulating the tech
giants
should start with updated competition rules to address the monopoly control of personal data.
But, ultimately, we should not rule out a break-up of Facebook and some of the other tech
giants.
In the private sector, retail
giants
such as Walmart, Nestle, and Tesco have joined the Consumer Goods Forum, a cooperative climate initiative, and agreed to phase out products with HFCs.
Today, many traders see formerly inept state
giants
as financial geniuses, capable of taming complex financial formulas and exploiting their superior size and trading information to squeeze the life out of currency and interest rate markets.
Leveraging Japan’s inability to feed itself, trade negotiators now argue that Japan needs to open up to imports or face being shut out of global food markets by fast-growing
giants
like China.
They invited policymakers from the emerging
giants
to become more involved in designing a new global economic framework – implicitly suggesting that this has not been the case so far.
The
giants
of earlier generations knew a lot of things besides economics.
And, indeed, today’s prosperous and innovative tech
giants
now face the prospect of redoubled efforts to regulate and tax their activities.
And yet it would also seem that state-owned firms like the energy
giants
Gazprom and Rosneft operate like modern businesses.
Some of Japan’s corporate
giants
have already begun shifting from traditional seniority-based advancement toward merit-based pay structures.
Will the spirit of hope that brought Obama to power triumph over the winds of economic and social despair, or will fear in the West of the looming global recession spread to Asia and destabilize its giants, China and India?
Powering China’s impressive progress in the digital economy are Internet
giants
like Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent, which are commercializing their services on a massive scale, and bringing new business models to the world.
Indeed, emerging
giants
from Latin America and Asia will be at the center of worldwide investment in the coming decades.
As Alibaba, Tencent, and other rising technology
giants
demonstrate, China is moving rapidly toward e-commerce and e-finance.
For decades, Asia’s two
giants
have fought a bulletless war for territory along their high-altitude border.
Both countries, the “sleeping giants,” were expected to awaken at some point from their slumber.
As it happened, however, both
giants
slept on – until the 1980’s in China and the early 1990’s in India – mainly because both countries embraced a counter-productive policy framework that crippled the productivity of their investment efforts.
After progressively dismantling their inefficient policy frameworks in favor of “liberal” reforms, the two
giants
began to stride forth.
Now, fully aware of Obama’s claims for a presidency that will be about the future, Asians are eager to hear about his vision of the Asia-Pacific region and how the US will deal with Asia’s
giants
– China and India – while maintaining strong connections to Japan.
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