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Jim McGovern: “You don't trade with a dictatorship and think they're somehow going to matriculate to a democracy.”

On the recordNovember 16, 2021
You don't trade with a dictatorship and think they're somehow going to matriculate to a democracy.
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Jim McGovern
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Opposition to trading with dictatorial regimes without human rights conditions.

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