Dangerous & Authoritarian: Trump Should Not Reward Philippines’ Duterte with Trade Deal
***Press Release***
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 4, 2018 | Contact: Kate Stotesbery 202-225-4865 |
Dangerous & Authoritarian:
Trump Should Not Reward Philippines' Duterte with Trade Deal
Washington, D.C. — U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett (D-TX), and all House Ways & Means Trade Subcommittee Democrats today urged the Trump Administration not to pursue a new trade deal with President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines in the attached letter. The Administration is apparently eager to send notice to Congress of its intent to begin negotiations with the Philippines soon:
"Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte has openly committed grave human rights abuses, praises extrajudicial killings, promotes violence, threatens priests and indigenous peoples, discriminates against individuals with HIV/AIDS, and just made abhorrent comments about rape. This is yet another example of President Trump deliberately rewarding authoritarians. Duterte's atrocities should not be awarded by Trump with a trade deal: No sweet trade-deal hugs for thugs. There are more appropriate partners for any new trade agreement."
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