I’ll never forget an interview I did years ago with the late Richard Trumka, the then-president of the AFL-CIO, America’s largest labour union. Trumka, a tough-talking former Pennsylvania coal miner turned lawyer, told me about a conversation he had had in the 1990s with a Clinton administration official about the fallout of Nafta, which had been ratified in 1993, and the potential impact of China coming into the global trading system.
我永遠不會忘記多年前我對已故的理查德?特拉姆卡(Richard Trumka)的一次采訪,他當時是美國最大的工會——美國勞工聯(lián)合會-產(chǎn)業(yè)工會聯(lián)合會(AFL-CIO)的主席。言辭強硬的特拉姆卡曾是賓夕法尼亞州的煤礦工人,后來成為律師。他告訴我,他在上世紀90年代與克林頓政府的一名官員有過一次對話,內(nèi)容是關(guān)于1993年批準的北美自由貿(mào)易協(xié)定的后果,以及中國進入全球貿(mào)易體系的潛在影響。