His endorsement of
socialist policies such as the public ownership of basic services and industries will have done little to endear him to Washington.
Not exact matches
As a matter of
policy, many early Labour MPs
such as Will Thorne and Herbert Morrison spurned the Liberal Party's support of free trade, «frankly recognising that control over imports represented a more logical
policy for a
socialist government than free trade» (Pugh 2010: 29).
Given that China still claims to be a
socialist economy and Western countries do not, it is hardly surprising that China is more willing and able to enact
such policies.