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Sunday 1 July 2007

When our corporate ambassadors aggressively pressure dictatorial foreign governments to back off plans to enact better human rights laws, the image of America as imperial power is reinforced. Here we have American corporate leaders quite literally threatening to leave China if China even minimally works to stop slavery. It makes you wonder if these same American business leaders were cheering on the Tiananmen Square massacre. But one thing’s for sure - we shouldn’t wonder whether America’s tattered global image is only about Iraq. “Greed is good” may make for great movie quotes, but as a foreign policy motto and an international economic export, it doesn’t exactly help make us friends or build us a positive image among the world’s masses. David Sirota

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