Former Appellate Body Members object to US shenanigans on reappointments (more politely than I would)::https://t.co/lkJp1H1Zgn
@leemakiyama legal services…
And quite a few traded services… https://t.co/leWzy69v4D
BTW(2) UK’s flirtation w/ EEC & conflicting deGaulle, Kennedy agendas made high drama. Fm my history of @iccwbo::https://t.co/TTwlFiFkVt
BTW, de Gaulle’s “Non!†to UK in his Jan ‘63 press conf. is unmissable. Magisterial, orotund, devious [see ~26’30″]::https://t.co/vYmbrrwYOL
…but EU cleaves to Schuman-Delors social democracy; a program for “stability†tarnished by corporatism, market rigging & entitlement
De Gaulle argued UK did not fit in EEC for cultural reasons. Anglo preferences are libertarian, laissez-faire; UK alliances global…
CHN firms buying ‘defensive’ patents perpetuates this rotten mess. Patent threats a bar to innovation, trade, FDI https://t.co/fUmepI14Tn