This system is bristling with defects and drawbacks.

NEW HAVEN Increasingly reliant on each other for sustainable economic growth, the United States and China have fallen into a classic codependency trap, bristling at changes in the rules of engagement. The symptoms of this insidious pathology were on clear display during Chinese President Xi Jinping s recent visit to America.

Worse, the response to the plan with some member states opting out of the program others objecting to how the quotas are to be measured and still others bristling at the idea that the EU should propose a quota at all seems to suggest that it is every country for itself. Throughout these discussions, the line between asylum seekers and economic migrants, who are not protected by binding international humanitarian conventions, has been blurred.