Grisly Human Trafficking Discoveries May Doom Obama's Troubled Trade Strategy

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13. I see.

That makes sense to me. Denying new economic benefits to, or imposing economic sanctions on, nations in the hopes that this will cause them to improve their human rights record is, of course, a familiar strategy. Sometimes it works and sometimes (e.g., in Iraq in the 1990s) it is a disaster in terms of causing ordinary citizens to suffer. I guess if this argument about TPP is going to be made, I would like to see a more nuanced version of it, one that explains exactly why denying the benefit of TPP to Malaysia is a good way to fight human trafficking.