Should we trade with China?

2 February 2009

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Poll Started 3 Feb 2009: Should we trade with China? Premier Wen Jiabao of China, the world's latest economic giant, is in the UK talking to Gordon Brown about strengthening trade. Yet everywhere he goes, there are protests about human rights issues. Which of these is closest to your view?

Poll Started 3 Feb 2009:

Should we trade with China?

Premier Wen Jiabao of China, the world's latest economic giant, is in the UK talking to Gordon Brown about strengthening trade. Yet everywhere he goes, there are protests about human rights issues.

Which of these is closest to your view?

Results

A. Strengthen Trade. We're in recession, take every drop of trade regardless.		2,054 votes (37 %)
B. Keep it as is. Every country has human rights abuses of one kind or another.		1,083 votes (20 %)
C. Weaken trade. Keep it to a bare minimum, no more than necessary.		999 votes (18 %)
D. No trade. Until human rights abuses stop, we shouldn't trade.		1,350 votes (25 %)

                   5,486 votes received.

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