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North America, Japan, India, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership

North America, Japan, India, and the Trans-Pacific Partnership
Prime Minister of Japan Shinzo Abe speaks during a press conference in the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Beijing, China, on Nov. 11, 2014. An alliance of Japan, India, and other south Asia and Pacific democracies could prove an effective counterweight to an expansionist Chinese regime. Lintao Zhang/Getty Images
David Kilgour
David Kilgour
Human Right Advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
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Negotiating a free trade agreement with an increasingly totalitarian and plutocratic party-state in China, which treats its Tibetan, Falun Gong, Uyghur, Christian, farm, urban worker, and other communities appallingly, should be unthinkable for any democratic country.

Canadian Clive Ansley, who practised law in Shanghai for 14 years until 2003, notes that its Communist Party has long operated outside and above the law:

David Kilgour
David Kilgour
Human Right Advocate and Nobel Peace Prize Nominee
David Kilgour, J.D., former Canadian Secretary of State for Asia-Pacific, senior member of the Canadian Parliament and nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize for his work related to the investigation of forced organ harvesting crimes against Falun Gong practitioners in China, He was a Crowne Prosecutor and longtime expert commentator of the CCP's persecution of Falun Gong and human rights issues in Africa. He co-authored Bloody Harvest: Killed for Their Organs and La Mission au Rwanda.