
		May 09 2019

U.S. Trade Relations with China Haven't Changed Beijing's Bad Human-Rights Record

Jim Geraghty

Making the click-through worthwhile: Tough questions about what two decades of ever-increasing trade with China has gotten us, and a look back at the not-so-realized promises of those who contended Permanent Normal Trade Relations would improve China's behavior; a look at how politics gives some people a form of easily justified hate; and an observation about the danger of defining the value of human life by whether it is wanted.

Increased U.S. Trade with China Was Supposed to Change Beijing's Behavior. It Didn't.

What if authoritarian capitalism (or quasi-capitalism, or however you want to characterize the Chinese model) is every bit the threat to a free-market democratic republic like ours that Soviet Communism was?

In the 1992 presidential debate, Bill Clinton hit President George H. W. Bush for being soft on Chinese leaders after Tiananmen Square and pledged to use trade as a form of leverage to pressure China's rulers on human rights:

I think it is a mistake for us to do what this ... Read More


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