[jhanschoo]

The article comes to different conclusions. In fact cheap imports from China ravaged manufacturing in certain "poor countries". Can you reconcile your general thesis with that?

[WalterBright]

Free markets correlate with prosperity. Those "poor countries" are most likely unfree economies.

[jhanschoo]

Maybe you would be more persuasive by discussing a concrete example where manufacturing was decimated by imports and yet more liberalization would be more economically beneficent thae protectionism (modulo say IMF, world bank policies), rather than parrot an ideological talking point without substantiating it with the concrete examples that form the empirical evidence for such general rules.