At the recent NAM conference, delegates attempted to solve the issue of pressures from one country to another, also known as neocolonialism.
This pressing issue inhibits a country’s ability to thrive due to many factors, such as high tariffs, economic leverage, and lack of knowledge on resource management.
A common point that delegates unfortunately got tied up on was the best way to deal with trade barriers, which currently cause issues for many countries.
“We need a NAM trade agreement to ensure that trade is open between countries, and not blocked by tariffs used to pressure dependent countries,” said one delegate. “Of course, we want autonomy over our trade though, as we need to prioritize our country over any others.”
This statement was immediately countered by the delegation of China.
“We don’t even need to trade that much,” said the delegate of China, Zhao MeDong. “We need all countries to capitalize on internal resources, and stop whining about how the ‘bigger countries’ are taking advantage of us”
Considering that China is one of the world’s top exporters, their delegation’s comments on trade were surprising to some. The delegation of Indonesia responded to this idea quickly as well.
“You know, the right strategy here isn’t to stop trade, nor to make free trade, but to realize that third-world countries contain most of the valuable materials in the world. If we stop giving these away to wealthy countries, then we’re now in the position of power.”
The delegate of Indonesia then called upon all third-world countries to limit trade with world superpowers.
“Let’s all give the little countries a chance to be on top, see how the bigger countries like it! Let’s make the little countries great again! …well, not necessarily again, because they never were in the first place, but we can make the little countries great!”
This idea quickly took hold of many smaller countries, leading to loud cries of agreement from other poorer countries. Despite falling farther from the topic at hand, limiting neocolonialism rather than creating more power imbalances, the smaller countries began insulting the larger countries enthusiastically.
“We need to stop being bribed by countries like the USA and take this opportunity to be more self dependent!” said the delegate of Myanmar.
Infighting was still an issue though, as Honduras said, “Fiji has no opinions whatsoever. They haven’t said a thing! We need unity among these countries to turn the tables on the larger countries.”
This pressing issue inhibits a country’s ability to thrive due to many factors, such as high tariffs, economic leverage, and lack of knowledge on resource management.
A common point that delegates unfortunately got tied up on was the best way to deal with trade barriers, which currently cause issues for many countries.
“We need a NAM trade agreement to ensure that trade is open between countries, and not blocked by tariffs used to pressure dependent countries,” said one delegate. “Of course, we want autonomy over our trade though, as we need to prioritize our country over any others.”
This statement was immediately countered by the delegation of China.
“We don’t even need to trade that much,” said the delegate of China, Zhao MeDong. “We need all countries to capitalize on internal resources, and stop whining about how the ‘bigger countries’ are taking advantage of us”
Considering that China is one of the world’s top exporters, their delegation’s comments on trade were surprising to some. The delegation of Indonesia responded to this idea quickly as well.
“You know, the right strategy here isn’t to stop trade, nor to make free trade, but to realize that third-world countries contain most of the valuable materials in the world. If we stop giving these away to wealthy countries, then we’re now in the position of power.”
The delegate of Indonesia then called upon all third-world countries to limit trade with world superpowers.
“Let’s all give the little countries a chance to be on top, see how the bigger countries like it! Let’s make the little countries great again! …well, not necessarily again, because they never were in the first place, but we can make the little countries great!”
This idea quickly took hold of many smaller countries, leading to loud cries of agreement from other poorer countries. Despite falling farther from the topic at hand, limiting neocolonialism rather than creating more power imbalances, the smaller countries began insulting the larger countries enthusiastically.
“We need to stop being bribed by countries like the USA and take this opportunity to be more self dependent!” said the delegate of Myanmar.
Infighting was still an issue though, as Honduras said, “Fiji has no opinions whatsoever. They haven’t said a thing! We need unity among these countries to turn the tables on the larger countries.”