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Ralph Nader on China


Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy

Source: Green Party Platform, as ratified at the National Convention Jun 25, 2000

China & other dictatorships have no real free trade

I agree, there have to be some agreements [like the WTO] dealing with tariff barriers and other issues that really interfere with authentic comparative advantage. And by that, I don’t mean dictatorially repressed costs such as in China or Indonesia, where global corporations go in the name of free trade, but there’s no free trade because the workers can’t organize and there’s no market-determined cost. It’s all dictatorial, repressed costs. This needs to be made more clear.
Source: Robert Kuttner interview in American Prospect Jul 2, 2000

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