We must not kowtow to these undemocratic giants
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1677979,00.html
Few things matter more in the next decade than how we approach human
rights within the new economic superpowers
Timothy Garton Ash
Thursday January 5, 2006
The Guardian
The year 2006 has begun with a taste of what 2026 might be like. An
undemocratic, imperially minded energy superpower puts a crude,
politically motivated squeeze on its more democratic neighbours. They
squeal, but Russia has the oil and gas. Meanwhile China, a
communist-ruled emerging superpower, continues to flex its muscles both
economically and politically. And all over the west one hears the sound
of kowtowing. Is this the shape of things to come?
Timothy Garton Ash
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