The US is going the same way as the UK. Down. You can't be me, I'm taken
Bob is right - there are lots of European subjects, but we also need to relate these to what is happening outside the EU.
BTW This might interest you. I reported at last year, and it just became official.
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is located in Helsinki. ECHA manages the registration, evaluation, authorization and restriction processes for chemical substances to ensure consistency across the European Union. The REACH regulatory framework has already had a major impact on enterprises that import chemicals into EU member states. The Helsinki REACH centre (HRC) was founded to promote cooperation in REACH activities and international competitiveness. The China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters (CCCMC) opened a representative office in Helsinki in 2007.
The REACH regulatory framework has already had a major impact on enterprises that import chemicals into EU member states. The Helsinki REACH centre (HRC) was founded to promote cooperation in REACH activities and international competitiveness.
The China Chamber of Commerce of Metals, Minerals & Chemicals Importers & Exporters (CCCMC) opened a representative office in Helsinki in 2007.
I believe there are many areas of cooperation possible with China, and that cooperation is the best way to address those aspects of Chinese international business that we don't appreciate - such as rapacious logging in W. Africa for example. You can't be me, I'm taken
From the first paragraph of the review - link below:
The title of Jia Zhang-ke's 2004 masterpiece, The World -- a film that's hilarious and upsetting, epic and dystopian -- is an ironic pun and a metaphor. It's also the name of the real theme park outside Beijing where most of the action is set and practically all its characters work. "See the world without ever leaving Beijing" is one slogan for the 115-acre park, where a monorail circles scaled-down replicas of the Eiffel Tower, the Taj Mahal, London Bridge, Saint Mark's Square, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Pyramids, and even a Lower Manhattan complete with the Twin Towers. Extravagant kitsch like this may offer momentary escape from the everyday, but Jia is interested in showing the everyday activities needed to hold this kitsch in place as well as the alienation in this displaced world -- and therefore in the world in general, including the one we know.
http://www.chicagoreader.com/movies/archives/2005/0705/050729.html
