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Sherrod Brown: “Trade and economic activity did not bring freedom to Nazi Germany, to Fascist Italy. It has not brought freedom in any…”

On the recordDecember 4, 2001
Trade and economic activity did not bring freedom to Nazi Germany, to Fascist Italy. It has not brought freedom in any way, all the trade and supposed prosperity, to Communist China. And, as my colleague points out, it has not brought freedom to the Middle East, where we have all kinds of economic exchanges back and forth with Saudi Arabia.
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Sherrod Brown
Democratic · Ohio

Editor's note · Context

Discussing the relationship between trade and freedom in various historical and contemporary contexts.

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