Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2000-06-14-Speech-3-219"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2000-06-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:China's accession to WTO2
dcterms:Language	"sv"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20000614.9.3-219"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2000-06-14-Speech-3-2202
lpv:speaker	lp:Per Gahrton2
lpv:spokenAs	unknown; Miljöpartiet (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; G/EFA (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3 member; Conference of Delegation Chairs (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 member; Committee on Foreign Affairs, Human Rights, Common Security and Defence Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 chair; Delegation for relations with the People's Republic of China (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Industry, External Trade, Research and Energy (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, if the preceding speakers are to be believed, we now have paradise in view. The Chinese, in particular, are heading there and nowhere else. I was reading an interview in the other day about one of the tens of millions of Chinese who have become unemployed because of the famous ‘opening up’ of their country. This person was complaining about the unemployment, insecurity and enormous widening of the gulf between the classes. In fact, this Chinese person was so desperate that she said she wished Mao Tse Tung was back. From all the analyses I have read, which is quite a lot (both Chinese and Western, liberal and socialist), it is apparent that unemployment is coming to China. It has already increased a great deal and, through accession to the WTO, it is going to increase a very great deal more. I am wondering now if the Commission has carried out any other analyses. I wonder if the Commission has any serious scientific analyses indicating that unemployment in China, contrary to what is apparent from all these other analyses, is going to decline rapidly and that social stability is going to be strengthened instead of the gulf between social classes widening further. It would be extremely interesting to know. Another matter is that of human rights. A number of people here believe that human rights should benefit from China’s accession to the WTO. Yes, that is possible – I am no fortune-teller. Parliament did, however, give the Sakharov Prize to Wei Jingsheng, who has a quite different view of this issue. His assessment is that the WTO Agreement will not benefit human rights at all. He has actively fought against it because he thinks that it does not make reasonable demands where human rights are concerned. It would be extremely interesting to know what are the Commission’s and the Council’s analyses of this question. In what way is Wei Jingsheng mistaken? We should like to know that we are not doing anything which, contrary to our intentions, is unfavourable to human rights."@en1
lpv:unclassifiedMetadata	"China Labour Bulletin"1

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