In the context of the current global economic crisis, every nation wants to devaluate their currencies in order to promote exportations. Therefore, the currency war is fiercely going on, typically China and the currency war followed by the reappearing of the commercial war with the protective tendency.
When the nations in the world simultaneously devalue their currencies, speculators and people are forced to turn to the Swiss’ francs, the most stable currency in the world. In the risk of a sharp decrease in exports due to high increase in franc’s exchange rate, the Switzerland’s Central Bank was forced to sell francs to the market to reserve it exchange rate. Switzerland also stops printing money to save their economy which is oriented towards export.
According the
Swiss economic analysis
experts, the commercial war
will come after the currency war.
In western countries nowadays, the idea of protection is increasing by the pressure from
the Tea Party movement
in the United
States, also known as the movement of
social suspicion against the Federal
government and taxes
which is carried out under the President Obama and right-wing populism in Europe. These
political movements reflect the indignation of
the people caused by the fact that
the industries and
jobs are moved
outside the national borders due to the impact of globalization.
It’s the "industrialization reduction”
that cause the failure of the struggle against
unemployment in the
United States. Economic
experts consider the U.S. economy as the
"bubble economy" with no
ability to create jobs.
With
the reasons for labor market protection,
the tendency to criticize
free commercial in western nations are rising
to oppose moving the industrial manufactures, production tools, the jobs mentioned above of large corporations out
of the countries’ territory. Those above
movements also appeal to the re-industrialization in
the Western countries and protection for strategic
industries by severely responding to the international
division of labor. This goes along with the
rise of protectionism.
The ecological movements
in these countries also focus on struggling this way,
with the promotion
of bringing
production back into the
national territory in order to minimize
the damage from transportation
activities.
The United States is one of the member countries of the
World Trade Organization who suggests
the globalization but turns back to self-protection methods with the introduction of a range of methods to protect the
domestic goods as well as setting
the tariffs. European
countries also have
similar actions.
In summary, the tendency that goes against the
above-mentioned process
of globalization entails
the refusal in mass immigration issue of western people. That matter is that
mass immigration would
result in the collapse of the labor market and
increase in burden on public budgets
of these countries.
Source: Vietnam Government Portal
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