In the early '90s, Wu traveled to China to document conditions inforced-labor camps. He was expelled in 1995. Wu is executive director of the Laogai Research Foundation and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. Q You have fought for years to stop the American government from giving China any special trade status until the country improves its human rights records. It sends a strong signal to the Chinese government that you can do with human rights whatever you want, as long as we make money in your country.
China is still a communist regime.
It does not allow for freedom and democracy. By putting money before democracy and liberty, America is engaging in a policy of appeasement and hypocrisy. The agreement is inconsistent with the U.S. foreign policy on other tyrannical regimes. . . . We boycotted South Africa. We cut off Cuba, Burma and North Korea.