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Li describes two ways that the tech industry changed the schemas used in trade negotiations. First, schemas are changed through "knowledge production" - creating reports and data.
Second, schemas are embedded through "recursive institutional reproduction" - a bit of unfortunately opaque academic jargon that is roughly equivalent to what activists call "#PolicyLaundering."
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