@Henry Ma 我说的是法律提供的分析方法,不是法律。这个分析方法可以用到很多地方,帮助人们启发思路。所以你借鉴这个分析方法,如果有人说TPP是公平的,你现在就知道可以反驳说:TPP 入会条件只是facially neutral, but it has a disparate impact on China. 而很多人就会被你说服。
"facially neutral, but impact disparate" argument only works in a legal framework that forbids discrimination. There is no such thing as "all nations are created equal". The veto power of the permanent five on UN Security Council proves it. All trade agreements, not to mention all military alliances, discriminate between members from non-members BY DESIGN. Gee, which world do you live in?!
In 1956, after reexamining the concept of brainwashing following the Korean War, the U.S. Army published a report entitled Communist Interrogation, Indoctrination, and Exploitation of Prisoners of War which called brainwashing a "popular misconception."[19] The report states "exhaustive research of several government agencies failed to reveal even one conclusively documented case of 'brainwashing' of an American prisoner of war in Korea."[20]