Good move
Marketplaces should be run and governed by the public, ensuring fair regulations, not by corporations.
Vietnam has launched its own e-commerce platform to help in-country businesses access European Union markets. Vietnam wants the platform to help it take advantage of EU-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA), which in 2020 eliminated most tariffs and lowered regulatory barriers between Vietnam and the European bloc. Vietnam …
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The minister said the state hoped to create "a complete digital ecosystem, helping businesses to make trading activities on a single platform" and to deliver one such platform for all of Vietnam.
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That's the government (not democratically elected). But I guess that is what you mean by public. "Public" is an ambiguous term. The (current) UK prime minister went to a "public" school (Eton) therefore he is qualified to be prime minister (apparently). But in the US Eton would be called a private school.
In any event, I wish them the best of luck.
I voted remain, mainly cos I worked for an international company and saw the benefits of EU membership on a daily basis, but that argument is dead and buried.
I've no confidence that either the EU or UK have the competence to create an export driving infrastructure platform but it would be an amazing if either did. Think of the absurdity of this, a government actually doing something useful which will raise the standard of living of their population, what are they smoking?
Even more absurd, imagine the UK government developing a successful IT program, try not to shit urself laffin'
The real absurdity here is the EU falling over itself to give free trade access to a non-democratic one-party state which has a very poor human rights history, yet does everything it can to block free trade with a democratic ex-partner which shares far more of its fundamental principles. Double-standards?
yet does everything it can to block free trade with a democratic ex-partner
It's only a wonder the Vietnamese weren't battering on the UKs door for a trade agreement, seeing how world beating we are...
The EU is doing nothing to block trade with the UK other than apply 3rd Country rules (which we voted for in leaving the EU and Customs Union). Doesn't seem that much of a slowdown on EU imports to UK, so they are trading with us.
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That depends. If your a believer in remain for the trade deals then its a good thing. If you are for the UK trade agreements being adjusted for our economy then its a good thing. If thought ends at 'brexit bad' then its a bad thing.
But to the satisfaction of Teiwaz we have the trade agreement as he obviously sees it as an important indicator of the ability of the UK.
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I do hope it works to raise living standards there. I have some friends there and one particularly who travels internationally to drum up business and make content. I have no idea if it would make any difference to her particularly but for the general living standards to rise would be a benefit to her and her family.