Harry Wu and Wei Jingsheng, two prominent Chinese dissidents, say this is the wrong thing to do. And John Sweeney, the President of AFL-CIO says the same thing. Here is the way he puts it. He says, China is one of the worst offenders of human rights in the world. It is a country that does not tolerate political dissent or free speech.
China uses executions and torture to maintain order.
It persecutes religious minorities and violates workers' rights. Well, we don't disagree that their human rights record is not good. I left the President's side in India, flew to Geneva to give the speech there to the Human Rights Commission saying all the negative things about China, then rejoined him. This agreement is not being done for human rights reasons. But my sense about this, Sam, is that ultimately it will help us in the human rights area because I've spent my life studying communist systems and, I can tell you, that if there are alternative sources of information as will happen as the Internet gets in there more and more, I think this will help the human rights agenda.