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China's degrading human rights Vs Ireland's salivating trade missions

jkforde · 2012-05-04 05:35:53

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17866176 So human rights get a perfunctory role in trade negotiations, we all know. But doesn't this dirty trade ultimately, in the long run, degrade all of us as well as our historical international reputation as staunch defenders of human rights. Any trade with China has the blood,…

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#32 12-05-2012 8:29am
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So if Germany said Belgium is part of Germany, and Belgium had no mates except for a few small countries here and there, because they were all afraid of Germany, would that be okay?

Very poor logic in this thread. Ireland should have more trade and cultural representation in Taiwan, the reason it doesn't is because Bertie Ahern signed a trade deal with China and then extracted all Irish govt personnel out of Taiwan. The UK, Germany, France, Canada, the US, Holland etc. all have busy and successful trade and cultural centres in Taiwan.
The Irish government could actually have one in Taiwan if they wanted to but if you look they are missing trade and cultural centres all across Asia now aswell. Broke ass morons.

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