Lim Kit Siang: FTAs - perils and pitfalls

My friend Dinesh has warned of the perils of Malaysia’s Free Trade Agreement (FTA) for Malaysia’s IPR and ICT future. In an posting yesterday on the DAP bungaraya mailing list, Dinesh said: The US normally uses these Free Trade Agreements to backdoor their legislation into the legislation of the target nations. this has happened previously in Chile, Australia for starters with every nation who’s signed the FTA being subject to American legislation. somehow as a citizen of an independent nation, it is abhorrent that legislators in another country can decide what i should be doing in my country and depriving the legislators which we voted in the freedom to decide how to govern.

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