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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, it is an established fact that China is well known for its scant regard for human rights. Any further emphasis would be euphemistic.
Ladies and gentlemen, what is lacking in this Parliament’s resolutions – including cross-party resolutions like this one – is a little intellectual honesty.
Paragraph 3, which asks that it should be made clear to the Chinese authorities that a genuine partnership can only develop when shared values are fully respected and put into practice, ends up being hypocritical.
The resolution then becomes ridiculous when, after listing a lamentable series of breaches and making the usual demands, it welcomes the fact of having a EU-China human rights structured dialogue. Not a word of serious condemnation, let alone any suggestion of sanctions.
Associating oneself with this resolution would be to make oneself a laughing-stock and morally complicit with the most violent combination of free-market and communist ideas that has ever occurred. I urge my fellow Members not to vote for this resolution."@en1
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