I don't agree that we would have chaos. The WTO treaties would still be in effect. The dispute settlement system would continue to work.
There's a sense of the bicycle theory, that you have to keep ever expanding trade treaty rules, that if the bicycle stops, it will fall over. That dynamic is part of what has pushed trade treaty rules I think beyond their core competency, into more and more of these regulatory issues.
I'd also like to make the point that when this round was launched, whether this was genuine or cynical, it was called the Doha development agenda, as has been referred to. It was a development round. It has become basically just another market access round. I think it's true that a large majority of developing countries are very disappointed and nervous about the direction this has taken, and I think many of them would welcome a hiatus, but they are not in the driver's seat.
It is a slightly enlarged group of big players. It's no longer the Europeans and the United States. Now Brazil and India--and China is taking a quieter role--are the key players who will broker a deal that pretty much everyone else, if they get one, will have to accept.
I don't accept that a hiatus would be a disaster. It might be a blow to the stature of the WTO. It would be disappointing to negotiators. But the system will continue to function.