I attended a talk at Bluffton University today that was, in part, about Russian dissidents.\u00a0 BU History Professor Perry Bush noted that scores of Soviet Union “dissidents” (artists, writers, teachers, Christians…) were killed under Stalin — or sent to “labor camps.”\u00a0 The same thing is happening in China today.\u00a0 Yet we continue to offer that country, for instance, “favored nation trading status.”\u00a0 We are, in effect, financially inter-dependent with China — and as a result it’s dwarfed our voice on human rights in that country.\u00a0 It’s a bad “trade” off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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