George Osborne downplays China's human rights abuses as a 'different political system'

Source: The Independent UK

China’s poor human rights record and lack of democracy should not prevent the UK from becoming its closest economic ally in the West, George Osborne has said.

The Chancellor said China and the UK had “different political systems” but that Britain could be its “best partner in the West”.

Mr Osborne is in China on a visit promoting closer economic ties with the country.

“This is primarily an economic and financial dialogue, but of course we are two completely different political systems and we raise human rights issues, but I don't think that is inconsistent with also wanting to do more business with one fifth of the world's population,” he told BBC Radio 4 this morning.

Read more: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/george-osborne-downplays-chinas-human-rights-abuses-as-a-different-political-system-10512215.html

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The world's largest dictatorship gets another free pass as long as it keeps making cheap shit for the west.

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