Tomasz P. Malinowski: “The alternative would be far less cooperation in shaping the rules of trade, including rules that protect labor rights…”

To promote democracy and human rights and labor rights in the Asia-Pacific effectively, we have to stand up for those values.

when a democratic experiment arose in Ukraine, Russia acted against a sovereign state to stop it, leading not just to a human rights crisis, but to a threat to global order.

Will we be better off if they continue down the path that they have started on in the last year under the spotlight of these negotiations? I would argue yes.

for the first time in many, many years, we are facing a serious challenge to universal norms of human rights from two of the world's great powers: Russia and China.