Ralph Nader on China

Support human rights as cornerstone of US foreign policy

Nader supports the Green Party Platform, which states:

The Green Party asserts that security and liberty prosper together. HUMAN RIGHTS are the foundation of EMERGING DEMOCRACIES and international relations. We argue that the support of democracy, human rights and respect for international law should be the cornerstone of American foreign policy.
We endorse ending support for repressive regimes. We support the right of habeas corpus being available to any person anywhere whose imprisonment violates fundamental norms of international law.
INTERNATIONAL LAW and INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS are inseparable. We do not support a world-view that relies on accommodation of tyranny or repressive regimes.
We endorse human rights policies in regard to relations with CHINA, SOUTH AFRICA and other nations with a history of rights violations.
As stated in the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the US Green Party calls for the global adoption of basic human rights.

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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