LOS ANGELES -- The issues that fueled the antiglobalization movement at the Battle of Seattle have not gone away. A revival movement surfaced last week. Call it the Battle of Hong Kong.
It was back in 1999 that delegates to a World Trade Organization summit -- hosted in the lovely but unsuspecting American city of Seattle -- were awakened to a new reality of world politics. Globalization, however defined, was anything but universally popular.
It still isn't.