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Britain needed to determine how best to establish a constructive relationship with a China intent on weaponizing trade, while standing up for the rights and promised freedoms of Hong Kong’s people.
His rhetoric of humiliation and encirclement, the instrumental talk of minority rights, and the Kremlin’s use of local proxies, with all of the uncertainties that accompany reliance on such actors – all of this was reminiscent of nothing so much as interwar Germany’s own irredentist policies.
India and China are simply doing what the US and European countries have done for so long: trump rhetoric about democracy and human rights with policies that serve their strategic and energy security interests.
As a result, in venues like the United Nations, China enjoys a degree of immunity from criticism for its egregious human rights abuses, as well as for its massive military build-up, one that is unparalleled in recent experience.
For China’s effort to make Internet giants like Google, Yahoo, and Microsoft kowtow to its domestic political controls, and its push in Africa and Latin America to create blocs of nations that pursue economic development while ignoring human rights and environmental conservation, is a poor model for the developing world.
Exposure to the outside world through travel, satellite TV, and the Internet has increased public demand for political rights, including the democratic representation that state paternalism has historically denied.
This is unfortunate, as the TPP would have revolutionized intellectual property rights and boosted transparency to unprecedented levels, while lowering tariff and non-tariff barriers.
Jan Maria Rokita, one of the most intelligent leaders of the right and a former home affairs minister, recently said that the Polish people already have all the human rights that liberalism can bestow.
What the country now needs, says Rokita, is the so-called "family rights" that are essentially conservative.
One idea receiving attention is a new form of global money akin to the IMF's Special Drawing Rights (SDRs).
If these proliferating trade pacts are to spur virtuous cycles of growth for developing countries, they must not only reduce trade barriers; they must also build the institutional framework of a modern economy, including robust intellectual property (IP) rights.
Some activists and government officials get the relationship between strong IP protection and economic growth backwards, claiming that IP rights are an obstacle to development, and thus should not be enforced until after countries achieve high-income status.
But the bottom line is that the ideas protected by IP rights are the dynamo of growth for developed and developing countries alike.
Instead of diluting IP rights, developing countries like India should recognize that strengthening IP protection is a prerequisite for attracting the foreign investment that they need to help their economies grow, create jobs, and improve their citizens’ capacity to consume.
Currently, India attracts a mere 2.7% of global spending on research and development;China, with its stronger IP rights, attracts close to 18%; and the US brings in 31%.
A country’s soft power comes primarily from three sources: its culture (when it is attractive to others), its political values such as democracy and human rights (when it lives up to them), and its policies (when they are seen as legitimate because they are framed with some humility and awareness of others’ interests.)
How a government behaves at home (for example, protecting a free press), in international institutions (consulting others and multilateralism), and in foreign policy (promoting development and human rights) can affect others by the influence of its example.
When protesters overseas were marching against the Vietnam War, they often sang “We Shall Overcome,” the anthem of the US civil rights movement.
Consider the “law on counteracting extremist activities,” which restricts the rights to freedom of expression, assembly, and association.
As a result, according to the Glasnost Defense Foundation, journalists’ rights are violated dozens of times each month in Russia.
The government needs to help with rights of way before construction, and with strong regulation to protect the public interest afterwards.
A genuine and inclusive process will require engaging with the whole spectrum of Afghan civil society, including rights organizations, women’s groups, the clergy, public intellectuals, and influential tribal networks.
Peacemaking in Liberia, Nepal, Ireland, and elsewhere confirms the necessity of this approach, given such groups’ key role in shaping and monitoring the content of a political process, with real consequences for those who violate its guarantees of citizens’ rights.
Talk of human rights and democracy is nothing but a smoke screen for demonizing China.
Property rights and the rule of law are always important so that investors--both current and prospective--can expect to retain the money they make.
For example, the principle that property rights should be protected implies very little about the best way to achieve this under a society's existing institutional preconditions.
It certainly does not imply that a system of private property rights and Anglo-American corporate governance is the right approach for all countries at all times.
Consider the vast investment and entrepreneurial activity that China has elicited through a hybrid system of property rights and a legal regime that is as far as imaginable from the Anglo-American system.
The accords represented an effort to improve East-West relations during the Cold War, and included an emphasis on human rights.
Such measures include assisting the Green Movement so that it can maintain access to the Internet, introducing additional sanctions aimed at the Revolutionary Guard, and publicly supporting the political and legal rights of the Iranian people.
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