[goatlover]

Can't the Indian government promote it's own agricultural companies and ban Monsanto products? That would allow Indian GM crops without worrying about some other country's corporation making Indian farmers dependent. Prohibiting GM foods sounds like handicapping countries if the concern is merely becoming dependent on other countries.

[pphysch]

Doable, sure. But that is precisely how one gets labeled an "authoritarian regime" by Western capitalists.

[jpollock]

Not authoritarian, but it does tend to run up against free trade agreements where offshore products and companies need to be given equivalent treatment.

However, I don't think India has many FTAs, and probably few of them include agricultural products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_bilateral_free-trade_a...

[pphysch]

If not authoritarian, do you have any counterexamples of "authoritarian" countries that do have a FTA with Washington?