Barack Obama, US president, threw down a challenge to his Chinese hosts at a speech at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Beijing on Monday, arguing for an open internet and the right to organised labour.
“We know that, given a choice, our young people would demand more access to the world’s information, not less,” the president told an audience of business delegates. “We know that, if allowed to organise, our workers would demand better working conditions . . . that they are looking for stronger labour and environmental safeguards.”
Mr Obama was applauded for a pledge to extend the length of student and business visas to the US.
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