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Us & China try to block out online gambling industry
Top level US and Chinese representatives said after the meeting that that both the sides had agreed on the importance of free and unobstructed trade, even as all while each is making moves to block competition and access to the online gambling industry. US cabinet officials US met with their counterparts from China in an important international meeting being called the Strategic and Economic Dialogue. After the meeting, the officials announced that both the countries believe it is in their best interests to consider free trade and honoring international commitments.
This news came as an obvious shock to the online gambling industry, which finds the two nations among the most repressive in trade, and least likely to live up to agreed rules. Especially in the US, with Frank Barney’s Internet Gambling Regulation, Consumer Protection and Enforcement Act (H.R. 2267) garnering the support of 50 bi-partisan Congressmen and several successful demonstrations by online poker supporters at Capitol Hill during “National Poker Week”.
After the meetings, US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner stated that the two countries discussed currency policy and the need to maintain fair competition across national borders. Each side assured the other that the government is dedicated to improving trade conditions and rejecting protectionist measures.
“The United States and China are among the biggest beneficiaries of the global trading system and share a common interest in ensuring that global trade and investment remain open and rules-based,” Geithner said.
Meanwhile, both the US and Chinese governments have exhibited hypocrisy in their policies toward online gambling. While the US faces a series of disputes with the European Union and Antigua over its failure to honor free trade in services commitments in regard to online gambling, China has instituted the Great Firewall of China to censor the Internet, with online casinos a prime target. In China, the Ministry of Cultural Affairs has actually already banned all online games that may be related to gangster-styled or organized crime based games citing the reason as these games are against their national culture and are influencing youngsters to iconize gangster lifestyles.
The US could start the procedures of implementing the UIGEA online gambling ban in December unless legislative or judicial attempts like Frank’s are successful to stop the process.
Online casino industry observers expressed amazement that the public statements after the meeting put forth for public relations by the two superpowers lay so far from the actual actions each country has taken and continues to take.
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